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Hy-Vee Triathlon Relay run with Rick Long swimming and Tom Swartwood Biking. Placement stats are: out of entire open division, single and team; out of total teams; and out of male only teams. Our placement is for the run only. Rick swam 37:01 with a 3:02 transition, Tom biked 1:21:00 with a 2:25 transition. Total team time was 2:39:52 which was 48 out of 241 total teams and 23 out of 58 male only teams.
Run started out hot maybe 80 and was into the wind up until turn around on MLK. Then the wind was at your back and it got hot. I was ready to stop by mile 4 and 5 but found a way to push. Ran 5:43 mile 1, 17:22 for 3, 23:27 for 4, and 29:24 for 5. Mile 4 was really slow (I was hurting between 4 and 5) but just told myself to focus on not speeding up but just maintaining until the end. I am very very very happy with this race.