Kryvicky's IM70.3 Ohio Race Report - AKA The Schitt Show
Hi teammies! I did the relay with my hubby - he rode I swam and ran.
Over all - Fabulous time! I cheered for the ENers I saw out on the course (I was the girl in the Coeur Collective Beat Kit yelling GO E-N flashing y'all the EN sign) and Mike and I had a fun day together in a mixed bag of a race.
SWIM
Safe Swim rolling start with self seed. I seeded myself in the 50-55 time as I have not really swam any real distance since May's IM70.3 Gulf Coast swim. I passed tones of people - mainly because they all seeded themselves in the wrong positions to beat the clock - but what it resulted in was a war zone of contact. Definitely NOT a SAFE swim. To top it off - due to the 79.5* water temp there was a "party wave" released 5 minutes after the last non-wetsuit swimmer at the back of the pack - so when they came tearing through there was some very very aggressive swimmers as they were already 5 minutes to the negative. I cut myself on some guy's unfastened safety pin (OUCH!) and was purposefully pushed underwater (with 2 hands - not an accident) by a jackhole of a swimmer who decided he'd rather drown me than him try to swim around me. I was not happy with this but there was a lot of pushing, and overall rude behavior out there.
My finish time was 52 minutes, and given no wetsuit in a flat, no current lake - compared to my last 1.2 miler at 49 minutes which was with wetsuit and in the heavily currented ocean - I am saying that this was was if not equal to, a definite better effort than May. 3 minutes different but in reality my Wetsuit alone would have made 5-7 minutes of difference at least, so that is improvement all day long!
RUN - AKA the Schitt Show.
My back froze up on me the literal 1st step that I took out of Selby stadium. So bad that I was brought to raging tears - bent over not able to walk correctly. I decided to push through thinking that it would release around the 5k mark and if not I would give myself permission to quit as there was NO WAY nor any need for me to be in agonizing pain for longer than necessary. Do not be a hero to be a zero Jennifer!
I made it to 5k and there was some improvement in that I could walk, but running was out of the question and my back HURT, not was just tight. The pain was tolerable but very present. At the 5k mark - just as I was going to call it a day - my waterbottle fell out of my hand and the lady behind me picked it up. As she handed it back to me she started to cry. I said thank you for picking this up I am so sorry that you had to bend over and exert that energy - to which she replied through her tears - I have to quit. I think that I need to quit. It tore up my heart and right then and there I realized that she was sent to me to provide me a focus other than my pain and for me to give back and to help someone else achieve their goals that day. I grabbed her around the shoulders, pulled her in for a hug and said NOT TODAY!
We set off walking... and stayed together the entire remaining 10 miles. 4 hours later... we arrived at Selby Field and I let her go ahead so that she would have a clean finisher's picture capturing her finishing her first 70.3. I finished in TEARS in PAIN but with PRIDE in knowing that I had it in me to keep on going, and that I am so happy that I said to myself to wait until the 5k mark because obviously there was someone who needed me to be there for them.
Ironically - she is from Michigan (the other side of the State) but we have mutual friends... including 2 people I went to college with who also do IMs, but who I have not seen in 20 years!
So onward and upward my awesome teammies! Way to go EN For taking home the trophy in our division at OH!
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