Lisa Bentley's Blog entry from 11/21/08

Cruise to Run

Another off season week has come and gone but not without me finding a race to do!  I raced in a local 8 km running race put on by the organizer for Cruise to Run (www.cruisetorun.com).  It is a great event with some amazing competition.  But the exciting thing is that it was my first official running race in 2 years!  First up was the 2 km fun run with our nephew Braedan.  At 7 years old, he was the youngest in the field but still ran sub 12 minutes for 2 km and placed 5th in the 14 and under category!!!  Then it was my turn to race.  It was a fast start and I was gasping at the speed of it.  The funny thing is that my arms were killing me – the sign of a good little triathlete – sore arms from swimming with the swim team!  I huffed and puffed and desperately tried to get my slow twitch legs to run faster, but there was nothing catching the Kenyans ahead of me – yes – Kenyans – nothing like a little fun local running race!  I finished 3rd and then ran back on the course to cheer on my sister Teresa and her friend Karen.  And after she finished, Braedan and I went back to cheer on the athletes. As it turns out, the little gaffer ran his 2 km course again!  It was a great family day and Braedan slept all the way home!

Dave and I were meant to go on a holiday last week to the Outer Banks but that has been put on hold.  Dave is going for back surgery in Boulder next week!  After a whole summer of being in agony, Dave and his completely herniated disc are going to Boulder to be fixed up.  We leave on Friday with surgery on the following Monday.  This won’t be a training camp for me. I will be in full nurse and loving wife mode, but I am sure I will enjoy a few group swims and hopefully a run and bike workout.  I do plan to have a Retul bike fit done  by the guru of bike fitting right there in Boulder.  Stay tuned for that!

A big congratulations to Jen for racing to a PB in a recent half marathon, to Tyler and Steve for great races in Clearwater and to Gary for a 2nd place overall at Miami Man! And back tracking to Austin, well done Emma and Jason for being so determined and racing at your best.  A big good luck to Kurt racing his first Ironman in Arizona in 2 weeks time. 

Lisa Bentley
www.lisabentley.com