Wendy Mastripolito

Random writings ....from BEFORE Eagleman... ************************ Thursday, June 11th Heading to the beach to spend a week with the parents in the camper ...and well in route I ran a race... Have you ever wanted to do something you had a problem justifying..... but when you could justify..... well...you just had to take advantage of that opportunity?? See I had always wanted to run the Dover Mile... ever since I had started running three years ago... I would place it on the calendar ..but could never justify taking off early from work and driving the hour and 25 mins to Dover to run a mile and then back... But then this year, I had the perfect opportunity to do so. I was heading to the beach after work on Thursday afternoon and well ....I would pass right by Dover... and VIOLA.. same evening as the Dover Mile... sweet! The venue was ok.. I arrived way too early and had to wait around for well over two hours.. the race didnt start until 7PM... and I found the simple thing of them N...

Eagleman 2009 Sunday, June 14 th Eagleman Half Ironman Triathlon (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run) SWIM: 58:47 SWIM TO BIKE TRANSITION: 4:35 BIKE: 3:24:55 (16.5 mph) BIKE TO RUN TRANSITION: 4:50 RUN: 2:18:12 (10.30 pace) FINISH 6:51:17 Results: http://www.tricolumbia.org/Eagleman/ *********************************************** We were up at 4:30am and heading to transition by 5:15am. The morning was a bit cloudy and the storm the previous night had cooled the water so now wetsuits were legal for sure. I should listen to Joe more often... but for some reason probably the same reason Joe does not listen to me, I did not listen to him and it almost cost me my swim. See I changed my goggles at the last minute.. I am saying 5 minutes before I was to go off in my wave I choose to switch my goggles.. originally I was going to wear my tinted goggles but then decided they were too dark and thought my swim mask would be better.. I had used the swim mask when I did the full ironm...

1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike and 13.1 mile run.... 6 hours and 51 minutes... will post story hopefully tonight...

( Yum.. nice Lums Pond green water - great crap to swim in!) Sunday, June 7 So I think perhaps I have gotten my swim panic attack out of the way... I am all clear for Eagleman.. ...today I did a women's triathlon called, "Diamond Girl"... it was shorter than a normal sprint tri...being only a 1/4 mile swim, 10 mile bike, and 2 mile run... ...thought it would give me a good warm up for Eagleman ....and THANKFULLY I did it... because I had a boni-fied.. P-A-N-I-C .....A-T-T-A-C-K ....in the water... why.. ??? oh who the hell knows... . I can swim in the murky, choppy, jelly fish strewn Chesapeake for 2.4 miles but I sure as hell can't swim a freaking 1/4 mile in a smooth lake... sigh So let's start back at the beginning... the water temp was 70... so wetsuits were allowed.... I stuffed the potato in the sack and got the blasted neoprene thing on.. it was a standing start.. .. no chance to actually “warm up” in the water... and BANG off we go... I am thinking this wi...

Saturday, June 6 th I love my weekends... not only do I get to see my family I get to actually do something to my house... so Saturday was a day of cleaning ....grab the Mr. Bubble and go... I was feeling kind bad that I had to miss out on my Philly Masters Track Meet... but it was a good call out on my part.. my shin was still sore and no way I could sprint or throw today... so I decided it was best to stay out of trouble and clean...oh and run a 5k.... the Newtown Square Sandy Flash Dash.. it was a new 5K (3.1 miles)... and was in the afternoon.. ..well I should have known better... inaugural events...well... sometimes it's just a surprise on what you get....... now perhaps the almost mile walk from the parking lot to the registration should have been an indication that PERHAPS they had no concept of distance.. or.... perhaps it was when looking at the course map and seeing it was 2 very long loops that maybe... just maybe the course was a bit long .. The race itself was a lot d...

Last night I did the Warwick Ruckus 5K Trail Run... to continue gathering points to try and win my age group in the overall standings of the Philly Xterra Trail Running Series... this is my 3rd race out of 5.. and they will take the top 4 scores... http://www.xterraplanet.com/trailrun/ ... so my shin is NOT VERY HAPPY today… !!..... I mean it was kinda sore last night BEFORE I decided to run through the woods…… and so now it’s A LOT OF A BIT SORE.. HMPH… it just better get unsore! The trail run was cool.. shame the storm didn’t come in … was looking forward to some hail and lightening ...but nope… but did get a little excitement… some big dude.. I mean like 6 foot 4 or so… RATHER BEEFY man… somehow managed to run right in front of me… Like HELLO>> CAN NOT SEE…!!!....and to make matters worse.. he would slow down on the single track.. blocking my vision…. making it IMPOSSIBLE to see upcoming obsticles, stones, logs and such ... and I AM NOT BREAKING MY LEG because your pansy ass ...