Successful Race!

Well, I met my goal, 1:12:40! First overall in the Athena category and would have been 2nd in my age-group (well technically 3rd but the overall Female Winner was my age group so I would have been second after you take her out).
So my swim was SLOW...8:16 so about 20 seconds slower than last time...I don't get it, it didn't feel slower and I didn't have people to chase or on my heels...maybe that is it, I didn't have someone one my heels pushing me to go faster.
Trans 1 was almost 2 minutes, not surprised b/c I put on gloves, and my shoes and socks took longer than normal...so it just was so slow...
Bike was 36:19...YEAH! but I think my front brake pad rubs a bit on my tire or it looked like it was rubbing at the end b/c I was working really hard and I still felt slow going up those hills...and my downhills just didn't feel as fast as normal either...then again, maybe I was just not having it...but that is at least gotta be an improvement from pink power, but since I didn't have a chip time I can't know for sure. If I do the math right...I think the distance is 11.5 miles...give or take a bit...that puts me at 19 MPH average...which is another great job for me...anything and anytime I am above 18mph is awesome.
Tran 2 was 56 seconds...so about a minute...dang, couldn't get my bike shoes off and running shoes on faster...
Run: 25:27...OMG...that is super fast for me, and has to be a huge improvement...I mean I think I did this course at pink power in 30 minutes last time, but again can't know for sure b/c I didn't have a chip that worked...so to see 25:27, that is in the 8:11 pace...which is awesome for me...but I figure I must have run sub 8's on the first 2 downhill/flat miles and then slowed down on that last mile which was uphill....but that is awesome.

So basically 84th overall but really high up there for women...and pretty happy with the finish. Also, met goal with improvement in my overall time...almost 4 minutes...if we are here next year and I can race this course again, I will have to set my goal to break 1hr 10 minutes...so almost a 3 minute improvement on this time...of course I should get some of it easily with transitions and that darn swim....but I am very happy with how this went.

So an update on Matthew, so b/c I raced I was pretty beat last night and Matthew fell asleep at church so I just knew it was going to be rough to get him to go to sleep at his normal time...sure enough 8pm hits and this kid is high like he just ate a box full of candy...I have video and will try to post to facebook...so all of a sudden around 820ish, he is crashing but like the over-tired grouchy crash...got him to take his bottle, changed him and finally at 8:37pm I put him in the crib, and sure enough he probably cries for 20-30 minutes...not exactly sure b/c I am not at fully mental ability myself...
So around 1:30am, I think Matthew starts crying...but I am kinda out of it, dreaming about USAFA football games and trying to get to the cadet tailgate...yep, reliving the glory days I guess...so I think I say to Jay, not sure if I dreamed all this or not, "lets give it a few minutes to see if he goes back to sleep" and not sure if Matt was up, if he cried, how long he cried...b/c Jay was out of it as well...don't really think he woke...but at 5 am I finally wake up kinda in a start...going is "Matthew ok?" and he is of course somewhat crying...so I get up, change him and give him is bottle...now I fixed 2 bottles with 3 oz, to try and cut some of the formula he gets at night...and both are in the fridge...so that definitely means either Matthew slept through the night, or we totally slept through his crying...either way, YEAH!!! Could this be the turn to Matthew finally getting some long sleep? 9pm-5am is ok with me....I'll take it...
Of course he went back to sleep at 5:20am or so in his crib!!! and I was able to get back into bed for a bit with Jay and of course to my wacky ACADEMY dreams...and Matthew slept through some of Jay's noisy bathroom stuff, all the way to about 6:40am...which is about normal wake-up time...
So keep your fingers crossed...hope for a repeat tonight on the sleeping, not the dead to the world parenting...
Happy Columbus Day, Jay is on-call so had to go into work, but will get to pick up Matthew in a bit with me at Daycare and spend the afternoon with us...not sure what we will do, I have been sitting at this computer grading forums and other late submitted work for my on-line classes...but today is suppose to be nice so I hope we can do something fun.

Happy Birthday to Trisha Ward and Uncle Mo for tomorrow, 10-11-11...I have many fond Memories of birthday parties with Trisha...possibly my favorite is the skating party and slumber party...
Also Happy Anniversary to Uncle Johnny and Aunt Jamee! Can't believe 6 yrs!

I will be taking Matthew's 8 month pictures here on the 14th so look for updated pictures on Facebook of our little man by this weekend.