Sep tee m bray!

Sep tee m bray! That's how September is pronounced in Spanish. This is also mid month crisis time.

Saturday agenda-UPS 5k

I couldn't find any other event, other than a seemly private one (5k sprint/stroll for recovery) so I ended up paying more to get less. What do I mean? Well, lets just say that ups didn't deliver when it came to my tech shirt. Excuse (possibly valid) was that they ran out of shirts and no savings was given to race day sign ups (still charged more).

Race was basically the tour of gables with a different name.  It was for the united way. I got surprised by JoAnn (channel 10) with an interview at the starting line. Then off to the races. I had a decent first mile then it went downhill from there. I surcame to the heat & humidity. I love the fact that finishers medal were given. Of course, I want the podium prize. Despite a less than stellar time, I won my age group by the grace of God & made the dirty dozen. The medal was nice, not 1 I ever had and featured a small spinning part. Post race was good also. The raffle seemed rigged but nevertheless, it was held.

Sunday agenda-race!

The following events were known by me:

1. muddy buddy (NY)
2. rnr PA half
3. trilogy bonus round

This was a no-brainer. We, Spencer and I, are the defending trilogy duathlon relay champions. This race is required to complete the series and he is back!

Bad news for me as it was windy, plus, still hot and humid. As for him, we was tired after doing a long run previously. The bonus round is typically the most attended as it is the last one. There were so many more relays this day. Despite so many challenges for us to overcome, we prevailed. In fact, we had the fastest combined time (overall)! Praise the Lord!

We made great strides, finally reaching the top. Race 1, 3rd overall. Race 2, 2nd overall. Race 3, I got a substitute as Spence was out of town. The replacement performed well, repeating the Race 2, 2nd overall finish. This was just to compete as 1 gets thrown out. In our finale, we take overall. We improved a slot at every showing! Thank you, Tim, for stepping aside as a teammate a giving us this opportunity. He & we win our respective overall titles for 2011!