2011 Seafair Olympic Triathlon
1 mile swim | 20 mile bike | 6.4ish mile run July 24 th , 2011 Olympic distance races have always been a bit of challenge for me… I just have a difficult time figuring out how to pace this distance. This race was exactly 4 weeks after IMCdA so it seemed like a good step back as a prep for Lake Stevens 70.3 next month and I couldn’t get over to Chelanman this year… so the seafair oly fit the schedule. I hadn’t raced the Seafair sprint course and the oly was new this year… so lots of unknowns.. but sounded like fun. Not a ton of goals going into the race other than putting together a solid race and crossing the finish line with nothing left (something I admittedly didn’t do at IMCdA.) Wake up 3:45a, eat, and head out to Seward park. Got a close parking spot 1 block from transition (really not sure where people park that show up at 6a!), let someone scribble some numbers on my legs and then set up transition which only took a few minutes. This gave me plenty of time to enj