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What an awesome event the Hy-Vee triathlon ended up being. Anyone who had a chance to participate in the event had to go away happy. Even for the age groupers it felt like a big time race and I will do it again in a flash. I have talked with a number of people that were spectators that have asked me about doing the race next year. I am certainly not an authority but the knew I competed and they were interested in doing so next year. These are non-triathletes looking to get involved because of the way this race was managed. The only thing I didn’t like about the event was that the run course didn’t have mile markers anywhere so I never knew exactly how far I had ran until I finished. What a great event.

Now that my triathlon month is over (1 sprint tri, 1 Olympis tri, 1 Half Ironman) is over I can settle back into my training for Kona. I definitely improved by race #3 but the problem with recognizing areas of improvement with three triathlons scheduled so close together is that you don’t have a lot of time to work on them. I am looking forward to putting in a lot of miles and some long bricks over the next couple of months because I think that will help me the most. I also think the training plan that I am following is a little light on the running and biking mileage so I am going to pick it up in those areas.