This is a THANK YOU for all my friends have done. First of all, STX was a
> total blast, I have never had a better "vacation" for a race. I had so many
> bad feelings of the islands and wanted to turn that around, it happened
> ten-fold. Second, I placed THIRD in my age group, was on the podium and could
> take my pick of Placid, Canada or Florida Ironmans. I took Florida. I was am
> sooooo excited!!!!! It was a very hard race but my swim though not fast was
> calm and good, the bike was right where I expected(actually alittle faster and
> 10 min faster than anyone else in my age group) and the run was 5 min off but
> it was hot.  I had left everything on the course and collapsed on the finish
> to be carried to the med tent for cold towels. The girl(younger age group) I
> outsprinted was in tears and had to have an IV. The best thing was after
> coming out of the swim I passed 7 people in my age group on the bike, and all
> but one on the run and got caught at the last 2 miles by! another woman in my
> age group. She thanked me for pushing her so hard. So I was 2nd place for a
> long time! It was cool. I'm home tonight and you can call if you want at
> 255-4685. No work til Thurs