Parker Tri

     I wasn't quite done running sprints this year so I found a smaller tri that I could enter, I even convinced Kayleigh to do it as well because the swim was in a pool rather than open water.  So this morning we drove to Parker for the last tri before my Ironman.
     It was probably the least organized race I have ever been to.  I understand that it is extremely hard to get 400 people to swim 500m in 6 lanes of a swimming pool, but after ten years (that's how long the race has been around for) you would have thought they figured it out.  My start was delayed over an hour, which means I was standing around wasting energy for an extra hour and it would be hot by the time I made it out to the run course.  Lets just say, I wasn't very happy.
     Besides having a bad start, I actually had a great race.  However, due to another issue I had with the race, I am unsure of my time or splits.  I never received a complete answer, but it sounds like the hand held PDA device used by the swim starters failed to record my start time.  This means that even though I received time splits for every phase of the race, there was no base to compare them too.  I have no idea what my time was.
     I have decided to use other measures to determine how awesome I am.  I shared a lap lane with four other people during the swim leg, and I was the first to finish out of that group.  I know for a fact that I at least beat four people.  I had an amazing bike leg as well.  I managed to avoid being passed by all but one other competitor, and I managed to pick off a large number of racers that had a head start.  I felt good coming off of the bike, my legs were a little wobbly at first but I managed to overcome that feeling after a few hundred meters.  Similar to the bike leg, I also avoided getting passed and managed to overtake a few handfuls of runners as well.  It felt like the best race I have ever put together, I just wish I had a time to pair up with the feeling.