She came, she saw, she conquered

I support smoking, i race fast myself. At this first race of the year I totally smoked them. I even smoked the guys, comming in 3rd overall (men and women). If they would have let the women start with the men, i would have won the whole thing. Read on!
I did my first race of the year, the HQBN Sprint Triathlon on the Marine Corp Base in Hawaii. I want to start telling about it the day before. I went to meet my coach Mike, because he has aero wheels that I could race on. I love aerowheels. Alone the summing sound of it makes me want to go fast. As we put the bike together, the moon rose up from the ocean. Mike is the house care taker or a multimillion dollar house project on the secluded side of Kailua beach. It was fantastic!
Race morning was unspectacular. As long as I can hit the potty before race start, I am happy. That is usually sort of a problem. Oftentimes I need to go when the run starts. And that is no fun; seriously. It sucks, actually. I went to the race withoug knowing how I will feel. I have been training a lot, but not as intense as last year. I am also still not running a whole lot because of my lingering hip/hamstring/wherever-it-is injury. I wanted to get a hard effort session in by racing and I wanted to smoke the swim and especially the bike. Whatever would happen on the run, was fine with me. The swim was great until the 2nd turnaround, where it started to become a battlefield of fast women against slow guys. I need to say that the mass start at the xterra world’s is by far the best idea. If I had no “traffic” blockage, I would have won the whole thing, men and women together. And that would have been history! The bike was fast, hard and in the zone, meaninig I don’t remember what was happening or how I felt. Just as it should be. The first 500m into the run felt heavy and stiff, but then I actually got speedier than I thought I can push. And there was a little hill as well! I love hills! So that definitely made my day- I finished with a pace of 5:41 min/mi.