Hello to all of those west-coasters! The New England race circuit is going strong. Yesterday I completed my fourth triathlon of the summer, posting my best results. I placed 2nd in my age group (out of 33) and 41st overall (out of 636) in an Olympic distance tri in southern MA. I'm happy with my results, but was aiming for a bit faster pace on the run - shooting for 6:50 pace and was at 7:04. The swim is by far my weakest of the three, and I'm taking masters swim classes over the winter with the goal of getting my Olympic distance swim time down to around 22-23 min (from current time of 26 min).
The prior week was a 7 mile race in Gloucester (or for those of you familiar with New England, pronounced as 'Glosta'). Went 47:07 and 68th of 841.
Next up is a 25K on the 'North Shore' on September 6th, then a half marathon on the 25th, and a duathlon on October 17th. I'm shooting for 1:49 in the 25k and really hoping for 1:30 - 1:32 in the half. My plan is to build to a marathon in the fall of 2011 with the hope of qualifying for Boston - I'd need a 3:10:59 or less! I'm only running around 25-30 miles per week now, so with building up my mileage I feel that qualifying for Boston is definitely feasible.
Uncle Todd - hope your recovery is going well!
