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2015 in the Rearview Mirror...

Tuesday, 19 January 2016 00:10

2015 – First Pro Year in Review

By Heather Lendway (heatherlendway.com)

Well it’s 2016 so it’s about time to reflect on my first year racing as a pro. Following Austin (back in November) I took two weeks completely off: no swimming, no biking, no running and no strength work. I honestly can’t remember the last time I ever took that much time off since I started swimming competitively at age eight.   It was definitely a good mental and physical break before building back into some solid training for 2016.

It’s hard to recall all the way back to early March when my season began in Clermont, Florida, seventeen races ago. With the Lifetime and 5i50 series crumbling last year my season became a random mix of short course draft racing (including a super sprint), non-draft Olympic racing and an intro to 70.3 racing, something I definitely wasn’t planning. Here’s a quick look back at my schedule/results from the year:

- March 7th, Clermont Camtri ITU Draft Legal, Clermont FL, 10th
- March 14th, Sarasota Camtri ITU Draft Legal, Sarasota FL, 8th
- March 15th, Las Olas, Ft. Lauderdale FL, 2nd...

- April 26th, St. Anthony’s, St. Petersburg FL, 3rd
- May 17th, Challenge Knoxville Half, Knoxville TN, 8th
- June 7th, Pigman Tri, Cedar Rapids IA, 2nd (local race)
- June 14th, Copper Creek Tri, Des Moines IA, 1st (local race)
- June 28th, TriRock Philly, Philedelphia PA, 11th
- July 19th, NYC Tri, New York NY, 5th
- July 26th, Chisago Tri, Chisago Lakes MN, 1st (local race)
- August 8th, Super Sprint, Milwaukee WI, 14th
- August 16th, YWCA Women’s Tri, Minneapolis MN, 1st (local race)
- August 30th, Challenge Penticton, Penticton BC, 4th
- September 12th, Square Lake Tri, Stillwater MN, 1st (local race)
- September 2oth, One Last Tri, White Bear Lake MN, 1st (local race)
- October 4th, Silverman 70.3, Henderson NV, 2nd
- November 8th, Austin 70.3, Austin TX, 4th...READ MORE