My theme song for this morning's race is Katy Perry's new song
Hot n Cold Yesterday was rainy and windy enough for XTERRA Nevada to be turned into a duathlon by swapping the swim for a 1.25 mile swim. This morning was calm and clear, but quite cold. Sounds silly but I was too chilly to do much of a warmup. The water was actually pretty comfortable for the swim although my feet went numb and never warmed up until after the bike. I tried to draft several swimmers but didn't have much luck so I was by myself for most of the swim. T1 was probably my longest ever. I put knee warmers, socks, booties, long sleeve jersey, glasses, gloves (huge ones) and my forerunner on after I spent at least a minute trying to get all the sand out from between my toes. I felt great on the bike up Tunnel Creek and along the Flume Trail. Hobart road was ok and I really started to slow on the last few climbs before the switchbacks. I quickly heated up on the climbs with all my gear. I would have probably been fine with just my tri kit, but I got cold on the downhils and my feet never warmed up even with the huge neoprene booties. Megan and Nate showed up to cheer me on which was great and motivating. By the time I got to the run, the first pros had finished and the temp was perfect for running. The running trail wound around Incline with a gentle ups and downs with several creek crossings. I finished in 3:32, which I was happy with for my forth race in three weekends. I'm ready to have a weekend off before Halfmax in two weeks. I think I'm a bit over raced and under trained.
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