This Girls Got Goals

With triathlon season behind me, it was time to take on the half marathon that was meant to be "training" for the full marathon scheduled in October.  I had a few friends running this one too, and a few of us met up at the expo the day before.  After the expo, we had a pasta dinner at the Ren Cen.  Melissa enjoyed hanging with the girls, maybe next year she will run the 5k. I bought this shirt at the expo, thought it was perfect for my goal setting :-) Up until this day, I had run 2 half marathons.  One in April of 2013 at 2:22:06 and one at the end of the half ironman I had just raced 3 weeks earlier - which I finished in 2:14.  So, I set my Rock Star goal at 2:00 hours knowing that is what I really wanted.  Super happy was set at 2:10 and Better Do at 2:20 (because of the rain.) Pre-Race Pics: Awesome to find Leigh before the race! Ready to rock!  It was crazy raining and windy on race morning.  The rain stopped, literally minutes bef

Michigan Championships is a  3 Disciplines Racing  event located on Belle Isle, my favorite place to race - mostly because of the sunrise :-)  I had a friend ride with me to the this race - it was nice to have the company. I set my goals at Rock Star = 1:15:00, Super Happy = 1:22:00, and Better Do = 1:30.  This may have been a little aggressive only one week after the 70.3 finish, but I love belle isle and still wanted to give it my all.  This race has a lot of meaning to me, since it was my first race after the accident last year.  After being on injured reserve all summer 2013, I still managed to place 1st in the Athena Division last year.  I have lost too much weight to race in that division this year, but I still wanted to have a good showing. Swim - 500 m  -  9:35 - 1/12 Age Group - 38/142 overall  - I had a very strong swim - I am very proud of this leg of the race.  My T1 time was horrible...  My teammate Laura and I actually joked about how we were both like rookie

3 Disciplines Festival of Races is a  3 Disciplines Racing  event located in East Tawas, MI.  I stayed at my Mom's place in Gaylord to keep from making too long of a drive on race morning. After I picked up my race packet, I was able to catch the all important sunrise over the parking lot. I wasn't sure what to set my goals at, but I thought 6 hours for a rockstar goal sounded good.  So, with that as I base, I thought super happy would be 6:15 and 6:30 would be my "better do" goal.  As we lined up on the beach, I was NERVOUS!  A different nervous than any race so far.  I was doing 70.3 miles in the next 6-7 hours... craziness! Swim - 1.2 mi -   42:57 -  3/7 Age Group - 43/101 overall  - My pace on this was 1.7 mph - which is not far off of my olympic pace.  We swam back into the sun, which was tough to site, so I was probably all over the course, but I did it, and still had juice to pick it up at the end.  I left the water thinking...  I could do more :-