Quick Update

[Aaron Kamnetz]

Normally I wouldn't send out an update without a big race on the horizon or a result from a big race. I don't want to flood your mailboxes :)

However, I felt this was worthy of sending out to all of you.

This past weekend, the 26th of August, I went out to Iowa on the invitation of my friend to do a race he helped organize and run. The race's name was the Iowa State University Cyman Triathlon. It is a fairly long running race. I didn't really plan much for this race it was done on more of whim and the invitation of friend who had a pull out coach and good camaraderie, so naturally I accepted. I drove over to Ames, Iowa on Saturday in the morning and got there around mid-day. I scouted the race course by simulating the race. I did the 500m swim, the 15.5mi bike, and the 5K run as if it were race day. I felt good.

I then went on to hang out with my pals, which included going to church (that is a whole story in and of itself...let me know if you want to hear it), touring the campus, visiting some of the local coffee hangouts and a local sports bar that allows you to see for miles as it is on the top floor of a 12 story building. We then retired to the apartment to watch Braveheart in full. Coach Fischer would've been proud as I requested to re-watch the big fight scene at the battle of Stirling, just for the pre-battle speech :) As always, it gets you pumped, so we didn't hit the sack until well after 1:30am Sunday...we got up at 4:45am Sunday for the race :)

When race day arrived I drove to the site, picked out my transition site, and went for a 5K run followed by stretch bands for my arms to loosen up. It was at this point that my pal, John, told me that there were two other PRO racers at the race. both of whom have won the race in the past...by a lot. Okay...looks like we'll being going harder than planned.

I was in wave one, the other two PRO racers were in wave two, so I'd have to time trial it as I wouldn't know how close they were to me until after the race, and they'd be able to push off each other.

The swim went well. I got a little shocked when a girl came out of the water right next to me though. Am I getting slower? (No offense to the ladies reading this...I just haven't ever been beat by a gal in swimming that is younger than me...she is 17) No, she was a on a relay team and state champ swimmer, so she collapsed in the transition zone after having her partner go on the bike leg. From this point forward it was just me and the lead motorcycle. I got to follow him for the three laps of the bike were I held a 26.1mph average and entered T2 as people were still exiting the water. I think I confused some volunteers at this point. From that point on it was just me and the old cross-country trail until I hit the finish line, which was at the 1:03:22 mark. Not bad. The next person to cross was at the 1:06:56 mark from my wave. The two PRO racers from wave two had a final time of 1:04:00 and 1:04:36...

I got my first overall race win of the season. The race had roughly 400 athletes in it and it was an extremely well ran race. Nathan, who came in second is a very talented athlete, and made me work extremely hard to win on Sunday.

Thanks again to all of you for the support. I really do appreciate it!

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Aaron R. Kamnetz
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