With the last triathlon I did, I am once again a nationally ranked triathlete! This race happened last weekend, The Experience @ Frankenmuth. This is my third time doing this race and second time I’ve done the sprint. Only gripe I have about this race is the switch to a time trial start, with sprint athlete’s being the last ones in the water…

Friday night I had the car loaded and my transition bag packed. The weather forecast was showing a beautiful sunny day and I figured sunblock would be a good idea. After having my numbers smeared off by my wetsuit from putting sunblock on after body marking at Caseville, I did a little investigating to see how to overcome this. One recommendation was to take a shower the night before, dry off and apply sunblock. The idea is that by morning the sunblock will have absorbed sufficiently into the skin. I can say this absolutely works (numbers are still visible after several showers and no sunburn!). If I had planned to be in the sun longer, I would have also applied a second coat of sunblock before leaving the house.

Saturday morning I was up around 6:00 AM. I grabbed my bottles out of the fridge, tossed my bag in the explorer and headed off to Frankenmuth around 6:30 AM. On the way I had a Clif bar for breakfast and sipped on a bottle of water. There was plenty of parking when I got there (it was a little crazy getting out). After getting body marked, I went over to set up transition.

The transition mat I got for father’s day is pretty awesome, it makes finding my spot that much easier. Once transition was set, I went back to the car to finish off the rest of my water and have a couple fig newton’s. I heard transition was closing, so I locked up the car and checked to make sure no one had disrupted my setup. Everything checked out and I proceeded down to the water around 7:30 AM.

Everyone got to watch the pro/elite wave start, followed by the challenged athletes and eventually the Olympic and sprint athletes. I don’t think I was in the water until at least 8:30 AM. I know I needed to drink the water beforehand, but with the seemingly endless porta potty lines, I was starting to doubt that decision. When I finally got in the water, I knew I was either going to have to pee or have a very VERY long and painful race.

Trying to pee while swimming is not an easy feat, I had never had to pee so bad and not be able to go as I was on this swim. Just before the turn around point I was finally able to let my legs sort of drag behind me and every time I put my head down, I was able to squirt a little out. It seemed to take forever, but eventually I was able to drain my bladder.

Once around the turn buoy, it was game on. I gave it all I had to turn in a decent swim time, once I got closer to the covered bridge, I started to slow down to get my heart rate under control. I quickly climbed the ladder and started to jog up the ramp and over to transition; I must have passed at least four or five people during this lengthy T1 run!

No problem with the wetsuit during this race (didn’t have it on ;))… I was in my bike gear quickly and ready to roll. My plan for the bike was to push pretty hard seeing as how the course was pancake flat. Once on the main road out of town, I dropped the hammer and was surprised to see my Garmin reading 21-22+ mph! I kept the pace up as best I could until I reached the turn around point.

I figured I was getting a nice tailwind on the way out and confirmed this when I turned around and could barely push 16 mph. Even though it wasn’t my fastest bike split, I still turned in a decent time. Not sure what my official T2 time was, the results didn’t include it, but my Garmin put me somewhere around 52 seconds.

The plan for the run was to start off with an eleven minute mile and see if I could push the pace for the last two. Well, I was trying to slow down, but was sitting around a ten minute mile and felt pretty good. Although my watch had me at better than a ten minute per mile pace, my official pace was 10:11 (I think the course was slightly long). Either way I had a good run for me! The best part was coming around a corner to see Susan with the boys. 🙂 Henry had even made a sign!

I crossed the finish line almost two minutes under my goal and slightly faster than when I did the sprint two years ago. It was a great race and one I look forward to every year!

I think this past weekend was our first really nice weekend of the summer. I’m lucky to have a wife who green-lighted my trip to Caseville. Saturday I packed up the explorer with camping gear and my race gear. I headed out on side roads in the afternoon and was setting up my campsite in the early evening.

I stayed one night at the Sleeper State Park and it was awesome! Although there were a lot of people, the campground didn’t seem too crowded… the camp sites are a very generous size. After struggling to set my tent up and working up quite a sweat, I changed my shirt and headed to The Thumb Brewery for packet pick up. As I was getting my bib, I found out racers received free chips and salsa at the brewery.

I couldn’t pass up free chips and salsa and also had a delicious Italian hoagie. I headed over to a gas station to pick up a quick snack for after the race and made my way back to camp. Back at the campsite I read the first couple chapters of “Training with Power”. It was getting close to sunset and I decided I would take a tour of the campground. I also wanted to get a shake-down ride in, my road bike was giving me shifting problems and I hadn’t had a chance to ride it after I made some adjustments the night before.

I took a slow ride and noticed there were a couple hiking trails. After I was satisfied with the shifting performance, I headed out on a short trail that went through the woods from one end of the campground to the other. I saw a lot of squirrels, toads, and even a whitetail deer! Oh and there were mosquitoes… lots of mosquitoes. Across the road from the campground was a beach campers could access via sky-walk.

I made it to the beach just as the sun was coming down through the clouds. I stuck around for a little while, snapped a photo, then made my way back over the sky-walk. When I got back to camp, I realized a flashlight might have been a good idea… I downloaded an app for my phone that used the flash from the camera as a pseudo flashlight and that worked well enough.

The bathrooms at the campground could use some updating, but they weren’t horrible. I got back to the tent, organized my gear for the race and climbed into my sleeping bag pretty exhausted. I was just about to fall asleep, when I could hear big booms off in the distance… someone was setting off large fireworks.

I slept pretty well, although I was awoken around 3:00 am by some lady talking on the phone. All I managed to make out was hot dog buns and raccoons getting into them (sounded pretty serious!)

I was awake just before my alarm went off (6:00 am) thinking about what I should do next… it was chilly and hard to get out of the sleeping bag. I eventually rolled out of bed around 6:30ish. I had a clif bar for breakfast and before I knew it, it was 7:00 am and I was in my tri-suit, heading towards the race start. Being this close to the race was pretty much awesome, I think it was about a 5 minute drive.

I got to transition, set my gear up and headed over to body marking and chip pick-up. After getting numbers written on my arm, I put sunscreen on and that pretty much allowed my wetsuit to smear off the numbers… oh well!

After checking on my gear, I made my way back to the car for a few fig newton’s and the rest of my water. The athlete’s meeting was hard to hear for some reason, but I did manage to catch the important parts for the sprint race.

The water was calm and clear and the temp was 68 degrees F, perfect swimming conditions! The swim passed by some sand bars and made it interesting. A lot of folks were walking these parts, but I figured this is a swim, not a walk and managed to front-crawl the whole way.

Without any wind to contend with I was impressed with how straight I swam. I was able to sight off other swimmers while breathing instead of slowing down to look ahead. For not having much swim training this year, I think I did a pretty good job on the swim.

I walked the sandy beach from the swim exit and was able to get my cap, goggles and watch (which I did not lose in the lake :)) off and my wetsuit down around my waist. I got to the sidewalk and started to jog into transition.

Having issues with the timing chip and wetsuit at the last race, I quickly took the chip off and my wetsuit slipped off without any trouble. I put my bike gear on and ran towards bike out and past the mount line.

I kept it in an easy gear until we were out of the park and on the road. I shifted to a harder gear and started to hammer. I wanted to make up for my poor bike leg during my last race… with this in mind, I was able to set a PR on the bike course!

I finished my Tailwind Nutrition (lemon flavored) as I was heading back into the park. I quickly dropped my bike off, slipped on my running shoes and headed out for the run. The plan was to do 11:00 min / mile and my starting pace was in the 8:00 min / mile range. I started to ease up a little and talked with a fellow racer for a bit. He went up ahead and my pace started to hover around 10:30 min / mile.

I had a good run for me (my weakest discipline) and ended up finishing with an average of 10:34 min / mile. Looking back at the HR data, I might have been able to push a little harder, but was happy to finish with a sprint at the end!

While waiting for transition to open, I sat in the sun to dry out. I was in the right place at the right time and was one of the first few people they let into transition (one or two people at a time). I loaded up my race gear and made my way to the campground.

Not wanting to get all sweaty after taking a shower, I decided to tear down camp in my tri-suit. I did get a comment from a camper passing by asking, “is this a new event in the Ironman, are they timing you?” I managed to reply with a Yeah, he laughed and sped off. After showering, I started the hour and forty minute trek back home. I got caught up with the family and unpacked the car.

Susan’s folks are in town for the week, so we got to go out for dinner last night. We went to Michigan on Main and it was pretty neat, we sat outside in downtown Frankenmuth; where we could watch the busy bustling of visitors and could hear live music being played on a stage near by. It was definitely a great weekend!

I completed my first triathlon of the year yesterday. Conditions were not ideal, but I still had a good time and managed to place third in my age group. Saturday night, I packed everything up in the car except my bike. It was lightly raining and I didn’t feel like getting wet loading the bike onto the car.

Sunday morning, I got up, showered, put my tri suit on and was out the door by 6:30. It had rained the whole night and continued to rain through out the race. It wasn’t a heavy rain, but it was definitely cold!

The venue wasn’t too far away and I arrived a little after 7. I grabbed my race numbers and headed down to the registration tent. After getting my chip and body marked, I grabbed my stuff and headed to transition. At this point the volunteer watching the transition area indicated there was 15 minutes left until transition closes. There was maybe 30 bikes racked in.

After setting up my area, I headed back to the car to finish off my water bottle and grab my wetsuit. A few folks were huddling under one of the park buildings and we struck up a conversation. Everyone was cold, but I suggested the water will feel nice once we get in it. I started getting my wetsuit on and immediately felt better that my skin wasn’t exposed.

After transition closed, we had a quick athlete’s meeting followed by the national anthem. Everyone proceeded down to the water and it felt really good compared to the air temp. No one wanted to get out and stand on the beach!

Olympic athlete’s started off at 8:00 followed by my group, the sprint athlete’s, a few minutes later. Although my bike and run training had been going decently well, I had not swam since my last race (the 70.3 at Cedar Point), I wasn’t sure what to expect. This was the first time I considered pulling out of the race at the swim, and I hadn’t even gotten to the first sight buoy yet! I kept calm and started to feel a lot better when I got to the first turn. I finally got into a groove and all of a sudden the swim was over.

T1 was not my best transition. I walked to my spot, slowly got my wetsuit down and struggled to get it off over my timing chip. I put my helmet and soggy bike shoes on and headed over to the mount line.

Even though I didn’t have a great swim, I was not looking forward to getting out of the water and onto the bike. The faster you went, the harder the rain hit and the colder you got. The bike course was hilly, twisty, and technical on a dry day… wet was even worse! At one low point in the road, water was collecting and the only route not through a deep puddle was a foot and a half wide (yes, bike traffic was going in both directions through this area)!

At one point, some one passed me and made the comment, “this is brutal!” I smirked and said, “nah, this is fun!” By the time I got off the bike, my toes were numb and my feet were soaked. I got into T2 and was happy to put my run shoes on. I had flipped them over when I set up my area and the insides were still dry!

The run was my saving grace. Typically my race falls apart at the run, but this race I was able to keep under my target pace (12:00 min / mile). I know its not that fast, but this was a good run for me with an average of 11:00 min / mile. I even had enough energy for a great sprint at the end.

I grabbed a banana and my finisher’s metal and went over to see when transition would open (my car keys were in my saddle bag). The volunteer indicated there were still about ten bikes left on the course. Usually the bike course needs to be cleared before they open transition to the athlete’s.

I huddled under the registration tent for awhile, but every gust of wind made me a bit more chilly. I headed over to the park building were I could count the number of athlete’s starting their run. It was an open-air building and was still pretty cold and by the time I counted five athlete’s I was down right freezing.

I talked to a few folks and one of them mentioned they were letting athlete’s grab stuff from their transition spot. I jumped up headed over and grabbed the keys to the car. I sat in the car with the heat on full blast and wasn’t looking forward to grabbing the rest of my gear.

I saw people were leaving and figured that every one was off the bike course and it was time to get my stuff. I threw everything into a trash bag and rolled my bike over to the car. I almost went back to see where I finished in my age group, but the wind and rain picked up and I wanted to get something warm to drink.

I stopped at a gas station where there were a few other triathletes doing the same thing as me, getting a nice, hot beverage! Later that night, I found out I placed third in my age group (out of four), now I wish I had gone back and got my age group medal…

I have another race in August at this same venue, here’s to hoping the weather is nicer and I’m able to set a PR!

Figured it was about time to get a race report on here. We headed down to Sandusky on Friday after Henry’s bed time. We decided to put his pj’s on him and hoped he would sleep most/all of the way. Starting off the weather wasn’t bad, but once we got into Ohio the rain really started coming down. Progress was slow, but we managed to find our way to Hotel Breakers at Cedar Point a little after midnight.

Hallow-weekends were starting up soon and they had already put up decorations in the hotel. We pulled up to the entrance (we weren’t sure and had to go by twice before stopping). It was super eerie, there was no one around, the doors were wide open and the green lighting and Halloween decorations were more than a little spooky.

After getting checked in, we got Henry and his stuff into the room so he could at least attempt to sleep (apparently he doesn’t like sleeping in new places). We stayed in the Snoopy Suites and although they were a little outdated, it was pretty nice.

Saturday we hopped on the shuttle bus (with my bike) and headed over to registration. I got my stuff only to find out they didn’t include a swim cap. We had to wait around for awhile so they could find a yellow one (only color I didn’t have with me in my transition bag). I got my bike set up, watched a little of the new coaster and headed back to the hotel.

Susan tried to get Henry to take a nap while I headed back to transition for an athlete’s meeting. It was pretty neat, since Rev3 is merging with Challenge Family, they gave out a TON of free stuff. I managed to get a Knoxville visor, which is cool because the one I had was stretched out and didn’t fit me anymore. I was suppose to get a Knoxville shirt as well, but they weren’t able to find one that fit me. It was a pretty fun meeting though.

Sunday morning was kind of crazy. Henry didn’t sleep much so that meant we didn’t sleep much. The weather wasn’t too bad, partially cloudy and quite a bit of wind. My race started an hour after the full, so I thought I had plenty of time to get ready. I went down to transition to drop off my gear and forgot to grab my bike nutrition. The transition area was a little over a half mile from the hotel. I got a good warm-up going back and forth over the beach sand!

I had some Gatorade, grabbed my wetsuit and headed to the start area. I had a little bit of time, so I decided to squeeze into my wetsuit and try to swim a little before the start. I was not prepared for the waves on Lake Eerie. They were probably in the range of 5-8 foot big. I knew sighting would be an issue, but it was too late to pull out now.

They called out my wave and we headed into the water. It wasn’t long before the gun was off and we were heading out for the first buoy. I felt like I was swimming up and going air-born on the way down the wave. Up and down, up and down, I got pretty nauseous and thought I was going to puke for sure. Once we got to the turn buoy, things weren’t as bad. Then I rounded the last turn buoy and going with the waves was a little more fun. I could also sight off the coasters and that made it a lot easier.

Getting out of the water, I had my wetsuit down to my waist quickly and I headed over towards the wetsuit strippers. They had my suit off in no time and I started making my way to my bike.

My plan was to carry all my nutrition and hydration and not worrying about picking up either on the course. I had three bottles of Gatorade and two packs of powerbar gel chews. I ended up grabbing a bottle of water near the end of the bike.

The bike course wasn’t too bad, there were a couple of hills, but for the most part it was pretty flat. The wind was a bit of an issue going out, but I managed to hit my goal time. I had a few miles left when I ran out of chews and was looking forward to the banana I had left in transition.

It was the best squishy banana I had ever eaten! I racked my bike, slipped on my running shoes, and jogged out for my “run”.

I can’t really call it a run as I was only able to run the first mile or so. Every time I tried to run, my legs started cramping out horribly (I wasn’t sure if I was going to finish the half-marathon). Every mile I had to keep motivating myself to just put one foot in front of the other and not to worry about how long it would take me to finish my first half-ironman distance race.

When I got to the parking lot, near the finish line, Susan and Henry were waiting for me and started to cheer me on. A wave of emotion hit me and it was pretty awesome to carry Henry across the finish line.

I’m not sure if I would do another one, but I’m glad I was able to finish this race! If I had to sum it in one sentence, it would go something like this, “I was happy to get out of the water, excited to get off the bike, and almost cried when I crossed the finish line!”

Four weeks down, sixteen more to go… training has been going okay. Finally started capturing my position on my tri-bike, think I just about got it dialed in. At least I can hold aero on the trainer for a lot longer than I could when I started!

The bathroom re-model is slowing coming along. Plumbing is finished, electrical is finished, and hoping to get most of the cement board hung tomorrow. Still need to cut a hole in the roof, but it’s been raining steady for the past couple weeks now.

Well… I didn’t have much luck in the lottery for Escape From Alcatraz, but I thought I’d throw my name in the Kona Lottery for the second year in a row. If I don’t get in this year, there’s always next time around. 😉

I’m still doing Jorge’s Winter Plan and took the lactate threshold heart rate test again. This time around my LHTR was 165, not sure if it’s a good thing it’s lower or not, but the workouts aren’t getting easier.

Along with the bike plan I’ve also been trying to do some upper body work. I found a pull-up app and have been trying to improve how many chin-ups I can do. So far I’ve gone from being able to barely squeak out two to a solid eight chin-ups! Once I hit twenty chin-ups, my plan is to work on my wide grip pull-ups.

The wait is finally over! I’ve been waiting to use my upgrade eligibility for a new phone for quite some time now. MotoMaker was finally released for Verizon this week and all I can say is the Moto X is a pretty damn sweet phone!

Cedar Point 2014 is on! I’m currently registered and hoping everything works out this time around.

This weekend I returned to a race that began it all. This time three years ago I was nervously getting ready for my first triathlon. This time around it was much different. After dropping the dog off at the kennel, and cramming my race gear along with the baby’s stuff, we were off to the KOA in Oscoda.

I knew we weren’t going to make the packet pick-up Friday night, so I wasn’t in too much of a hurry to get up there. We stopped to eat in Bay City and noticed there was quite a stench in the air (something to do with farmers and sugar beets).

We got to the campground after the office closed, but they had a bag with our name on it and a key to the cabin we reserved. According to some people a cabin isn’t “camping”, but it was great to have running water and power, especially with a three month old baby!

I went to put my trisuit on race morning and was having difficulty getting the zipper up. It looks like it got off track at the bottom and the more I tried, the more it started to tear the fabric. I ended up racing with it all the way zipped down.

Saturday morning was a busy one, we found a spot to park near the finish line and I headed over to packet pick-up. I managed to get my race number and swim cap moments before they shut down and proceeded to set up transition and headed over to body marking.

The swim had been moved to inside the harbor due to a storm producing 3-4 foot whitecaps, it actually worked out quite well. There were a few sprinkles before the sprint race started and it seemed pretty cold until I got in the water.

I had a decent swim, but am pretty bummed that someone managed to grab my Garmin 310XT and rip it off its wrist strap. The swim exit to T1 was a bit of a run and I was struggling to get the top half of my wetsuit down. Once I got into transition, it was around my waist and I somehow managed to blow right past where my bike was racked in.

I quickly had the wetsuit down to my ankles, but struggled a bit to get it off. I put on my wet bike shoes, helmet, and wanted to wear my sunglasses, but they insta-fogged after I put them on and I couldn’t really see anything so I left them behind.

I really wanted to push the bike and try to hang on during the run. I think I accomplished that… I passed a lot of people and was only passed by two people on the bike. The second person that passed me, I was able to catch them in T2.

That leaves us with the run. Without a watch to keep my run two minutes, walk one minute pace… I did A LOT of counting. It seemed to work out pretty well, overall I finished fourteen minutes faster than the last time I did this race!

After I finished and had some much needed bananas and cookies, we headed back to the cabin for a quick shower and change of clothes. We went back to get my gear and I packed up my wet stuff as best I could.

The sun started to come out and the skies turned blue, so we headed out to the state park and took a look at a lighthouse (missing the last tour of the day by 30 minutes :(). After a quick walk out to the fog horn and a glimpse of the beach, we were on our way back to the campground.

The blue skies turned gray and we had a quick down-pouring soon after. Our plan was to have a campfire and cook dinner; unfortunately I had to make a run for food because I couldn’t get the fire going. The air was extremely humid and I was having a hard time even getting the newspaper to stay burning. I also bought a bag of charcoal so I could at least cook some breakfast in the morning.

The bag of charcoal I had bought was a small one that you light on fire. It said no lighter fluid needed, but I wanted to have a camp breakfast, so I gave it a healthy dousing. After breakfast, we packed up, snapped a couple of pictures and were off!

Another year, another candle on the cake. This year has been exciting to say the least. After Henry was born, I’ve been trying to find time to work out like I use to. It’s been tough, but signing up for a race is always a lot of fun. My first triathlon this year was in Otter Lake and it was fun to see how far I could push myself without a lot of training.

For some reason I decided racing the weekend of Henry’s baptism would be a good idea. Although it worked out in the end, it could have gone more smoothly. The Saturday before the race (the day of the baptism) was super busy, I did manage to make my way over to Otter Lake for packet pick-up (which I was glad I did so I could figure out where the best place to park was).

Sunday I was up early to give Henry a bottle and feed and let the dog out. I knew where most of my tri gear was at, but hadn’t packed any of it the night before. I quickly threw everything in my sweet tri bag, loaded up the bike and was off. Having done a couple tris in the past, I was able to set up my transition area quickly and headed down to body marking.

After body marking I figured I might as well get a quick swim warm-up in and headed down to the beach. Everyone was saying the water was like bath water, but it actually felt kind of nice (temperature was measured around 79 degrees I believe), especially compared to the 84 degree pool I swim in at the Y.

When it was my wave’s time to start (after a waiting a long time for the Olympic athletes to finish) I got in and was actually able to find some feet to draft off of. I had a pretty decent swim and managed to run the whole way up to transition. I told myself to stay in the small chain ring on the bike, but a couple of the down hills I “had” to push a bigger gear. I wish I hadn’t messed up pushing buttons on my 310XT to see what speeds I hit, but I was definitely cruising past people on the down hills.

Then I got to the run, for whatever reason I always seem to start out super fast, my watch was showing ~7:00 min miles and I was like whoa… need to slow down. Not having been able to get much running in, I settled in on a run 2 minutes, walk 1 minute plan. It worked pretty well, even though people were trying to get me to run the whole thing… I’m pretty sure I would have had a worse time trying to run the whole way, rather than my plan. All and all it was a good race and I finished with a smile!

My next race was a first ever triathlon in Frankenmuth. I managed to have my car packed and ready to go race morning, but I still managed to get there later then I wanted. I was able to get my transition set-up a few minutes before they closed it to racers.

Although the reports say the Cass River was safe to swim in, I wasn’t able to see more than a few inches in front of me. I also realized I should really move up to the Olympic distance so I didn’t have to stand around waiting for the race to start. It was pretty neat though, as we got to launch off a ferry boat and swim to the start line under the covered bridge. Once I finally gotten into the water I was able to drain my pre-race hydration, man that was such a relief!

The swim went pretty good, I was able to sight well for not having practiced much (and I wasn’t able to draft off anyone at this race). After getting out of the water and jogging up to transition, I realized it was a VERY long transition run. This was the first time I got to my spot and almost fell over (due to lack of oxygen and my heart racing).

I finally managed to un-rack my bike and headed out to the maze of cones. Luckily no one was coming at me, as I wasn’t sure which path to follow on bike out. I actually managed to stay in my small chain ring for the whole race, even though I was tempted to get in the larger one…

I should really start running every day, but I did do the same approach as last time. I even managed to pass a few people using my run/walk plan. Another fun race, I’m looking forward to doing this one next year, and maybe we’ll actually be able to go to the after party!

Taking a deviation from triathlons, I decided I could do another mountain bike race on no training (last time I was on my mountain bike was two days before Henry was born… two months before the race). I had signed up for the Ore to Shore 28 mile race in the UP (they have a longer one, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have finished it). We left Friday after noon and got to Susan’s folks’ place around 11:30ish.

I got to the race start early to pick up my race number and managed to get a small warm-up in. I was planning on using pop-tarts for race nutrition, but Susan’s dad decided I needed a huge breakfast and I didn’t touch either pop-tart. The start was pretty neat, there were 1200 racers rearing to go. Riding the roads we were able to spread out pretty good, but once we got to the single track in the woods, it was a major congestion. Walking the bike was way faster than trying to ride < 3 mph. Once we got to the first hill, the crowd started thinning and I was able to get going on the bike once again. There was quite a bit of sand during the race and I’m glad I decided on a lower tire pressure… usually I run 35 PSI off-road and 50 PSI on-road. At the start of the race, I was wishing I had gone with my on-road pressure, but once I hit the sand, I was glad I didn’t. I didn’t have much troubles at all navigating the sketchy sandy down hills, I just had to watch out for other people as they would jack-knife unexpectedly. There were a couple brutal climbs and I had thought I had seen the worst of it at mile 16. Then I realized that hill paled in comparison to the one at mile 22. It was at this point, pushing my bike up the hill that my legs started to cramp pretty bad. I was pretty much dragging my right leg up the hill to prevent it from locking up. As you can see in the finish line photo, I was trying to stay upright and muscling through the pain in my legs. It was a fun race and hoping it will work out that I can do it again next year (after some actual training!)

With everything that is going on this year, I opted to withdrawal from the Rev3 Cedar Point Half Revolution. Hopefully I’ll be able to get a 100% credit for next years event.