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Accenture Chicago Triathlon
The race was pretty decent. transitions closed at 545, then my wave didnt go off till 745. so i had no swim, or bike warm up. it was a in water swim start, so like 140 dudes were all treading water and then the horn goes off. effing crazy start man. after about 400 meters or so it started to thin out. the water was really cool so it felt great. i was able to churn out the entire 1.5k without any breast-stroke. the swim exit to the transition was like a quarter of a mile, so the swim time includes that. i finished the swim in like 31:00, so the actual swim was prob like 28 or so. i assume that since this was a high level race the distance on the swim was spot on, but it felt way longer. so the local races are probably shorter than the full 1.5k.

the bike was awesome, right on lakeshore drive. a two loop course and pretty flat. i did a 1:07 or so, averaging 22.5. so i was pretty happy about that. i had a huge cheering section so i was having a really good time, no stress. just enjoying the last race of the season.

the run was good till about mile 3. i could tell that having the time off because of the achilles, my running legs just were not there. i finished averaging 7:38, more than 30 seconds slower than usual.

i finished at 2:31 and change. i was 43 out of 484 in my age group and 335 out of 3928 overall, like top 8-9% in each. it was fun, i was hanging with my family, so overall a great end of the season.

X-rays
I might have a stress fracture in my left foot. I'll find out tomorrow. Cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet!