Smoke and Mirrors

These were taken from official events photography…

Ok, so I didn’t smoke the course, but … I did pretty well considering. Here are the results from the race. Search for “Rick Watson” — 521. While you’re at it, find my friend Kevin Scanlon. He definitely smoked it with a 138 out of 552 finish overall.

It’s pretty cool seeing your name on a race results list for some reason.

In terms of my ranking (which was pretty far down), I did better on the swim (501), bike (506), and run (513) than my overall ranking. This suggests to me that my transition times (the time spent between swim and bike, and then bike and run later) are holding me up as well. This makes sense because I was taking my time during transitions figuring this whole thing out. Most of the time I was walking, not jogging or running like some other folks. Mostly I was worried about taking things too hard and not blowing up somewhere on the course later on.

Plus, have you ever tried running after swimming for half a mile? Ugh.

Again, I am so psyched about finishing things … and especially at the end of the race I felt I could go further …

I had a great time.

Photos from the race.

Short story: I finished, I didn’t stop anywhere on the course except walking for a second to get water on the run. These were my goals so it was awesome to do them all.

Race report later.