Yesterday was the first of the Midwest Indoor Tri Championship Series races at Wheaton Sports Center.  I had a good race and completed a little over 11.5 miles.  As usual, it was a very fun race and I saw many familiar faces, from the Race Director, Nancy, to competitors who I've known for more than 20 years.  Even though this is a very low key event, it is still an extremely hard workout.  The bike (20 minutes on a stationary ergometer) is killer and the 5 minute transition between the bike and run, while more rest that in outdoor races, doesn't really help much. My heart rate maxed out at 174 beats/min on the bike. Given I'm 58, that puts my max heart rate about 12 beats/min higher than my predicted max (220-58=162)!