Race Coverage

"...My Best Olympic Race to Date"....

Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:10

By Heather Lendway (heatherlendway.com)

Life Time Tri - Minneapolis Race Report - The entire week leading into this race excitement and nerves were building. This race was going to be the biggest race to date for me this season because of a highly competitive elite amateur field and there would be a pro field racing, Saturday couldn’t arrive soon enough.

Saturday morning my alarms went off at 3:45, 3:50, and 3:55, I was up with the first alarm but always set back ups. Dad was at the house to pick me up at 4:10, I was happy to walk out of the house onto a dry sidewalk instead of torrential flooding downpours like last year....

I arrived at transition a little after it opened at 4:30 and was surprised to see there weren’t many people around, there’s usually a group of early birds with me but the racks were pretty bare. I was able to rack my bike and relax with my coffee for a bit and let my body really start to wake up. I always check my bike over before races but I still like to have my bike checked over by the professionals so I took my bike over to the Gear West tent to have them double check that everything was in good order. READ MORE

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