She Bangs Women's-Only Sprint Triathlon
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She Bangs Women's-Only Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint
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Comments: No time to bother w/ the wetsuit so that may have slowed me down. I was comfortable most of the way except for my exploding bladder (no time to pee before the race). I stopped to help orient a girl who was lost b/c she didn't have contacts in and she almost started heading back to the marina... Got thrown off course when I swam around a drifting kayak and then couldn't see the turn point b/c of the sun. Whatever. The worst part was the water. It was clear as a broccoli smoothie. The weeds at the end were horrifying- it was hard to swim through them. What would you do differently?: Pee before the race like usual. Transition 1
Comments: I STILL HAD TO PEE. Yes, I peed in the lake but that was not enough. Also it was a long haul from the swim to T1. And I had to reapply my bandaid to the gushing thumb wound. What would you do differently?: Pee before the race and not chop off my thumb. Bike
Comments: The Olympic course people were already passing me at the beginning... and they started way after us. That's fine. It's nice when they all say "GOOD JOB!" when they pass me. If people didn't pass me, I wouldn't get so much encouragement so maybe that's my excuse for being slow. It was really neat watching those slick as snot guys on their tri bikes just fly past me up the hills. I felt a lot better on the bike about halfway through and was bummed it was over so fast. I may actually be better suited for Olympic races because of this- the first 20 minutes of anything is my "warmup" and I'm ready to rock just as the course is ending. For nutrition, sipped my Nuun water and took 2-3 margarita Clif Shot Bloks. What would you do differently?: Get more speed on the downhills. I hate my bike. Bike envy is really starting to take hold. Transition 2
Comments: I didn't pee at this transition! Run
Comments: Negative split. Really plodding along at the beginning but punched it at the end. But guess what- I peed again at the halfway porta potty. Feeling totally incontinent during this race. The upside is that I think the extra sodium in the margarita shot blocks helped ward off any cramping- I was really comfortable the whole time aside from the bladder. What would you do differently?: Three guesses. Post race
Warm down: Pancakes, some stretching, and then hopped into the car for a road trip to cheer on our Steelhead 70.3 friends in Michigan. What limited your ability to perform faster: My bladder. Nervously chugging a grande bold 10 minutes before the race was a very, very bad idea. Event comments: My wave started about 5 minutes late but that was obviously to my advantage. Other than that, everything seemed to run smooth from my end. Wish the lake wasn't so gross. Last updated: 2011-08-01 12:00 AM
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This was the little triathlon that almost wasn't. Woke up at 3:30 and ate half a bagel with an egg and a glass of chocolate soy silk. Got picked up by my tri-ladies at 4:30 AM and headed out, but made a pit stop at a Starbucks that didn't open until 5:30. We waited, got our coffee and left. We're running late at this point and then of course, murphy's law, we get lost. We circled the wrong lake for a couple minutes before firing up the GPS. Pulled into the parking area with 5 minutes to get chipped, marked, set up in transition, and on the shuttle over to swim out for our 6:30 wave.
Rushing frantically over to the the race site. Slicing my finger open with a pair of scissors while trying to get my bike number affixed to my frame. Bled all over transition. Thank god for Sabrina remembering she had bandaids! Nabbed a shot blok before running off to the shuttle buses.