Pacific Coast Tri - Duathlon

Beth had an awesome race at the Pac Coast Tri - actually make that Du - yesterday for 3rd in her age group. It's a really big sprint race with about 1,000 "participants" and would have to be considered Beth's home course since it's 8 miles from our house at a beach she runs and rides all the time. They cancelled the swim due to the big surf, which wasnt terribly big the morning of the race, but there was still a danger of rip currents i guess. Anyway, everyone got to run 800 meters down the beach instead and then up the paved path that climbs about 150 vertical feet to the transition area. Nice way to get yourself going at 7:30 in the morning. Without the swim the racing was closer for the fast people. Of course triathlons have some not so fast people out there at the same time just trying to finish, which makes for good spectating I guess. Anyway, after surviving the initial sprint, Beth had a good ride and great run to get 3rd against a really competitive field.


I didn't feel so super over the weekend, and took a long nap instead of riding yesterday. Still tired this morning, but think I'm ready for some hard climbing on Pelican Hill this evening to get myself back in gear for a small training block before the East Coast Nationals. Time to log off the work computer, change, soak my head in the sink, eat my dried apricots, and go ride.