Lions Spring Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Emily did great!

She swims a few times before a race and can swim strong. She is a natural fish type and is comfortable in the water always has been.

She ran out and I was ready to ride and met her at exit point and open area of racks, she swapped timing chip as I was holding my bike. We practiced changing the chip a few time before the race.

My goal was to go zone 5 whole way and try to keep my cadence close to 80. I was treating this like a time trial. Doing this type of effort in training is more mentally challenging than in a race.

I went as hard as I could, and watched my cadence more than I did last two races. I have a feel for 80 now and could tell when I was going higher shift gears.

Climb going hard hurt a lot more than warm up pace. I maxed out gears in quite a few places. Legs burned nicely and I was panting.

Passed a bunch of folks none passed me. It was windy in places..gusts up to 16-20 mph. My second half of the race my power was higher than first half which is good pacing and something I've been working on.

Marlboro Sprint:
Duration: 30:06
Work: 335 kJ
TSS: 55.1 (intensity factor 1.048)
Norm Power: 194
VI: 1.05

4th time doing this race..highest power but not fastest bike split shows how wind/weather effects times.

2009: 30:06, NP 194
2007: 29:32, NP 180
2006: 32:06
2005: 38:50



My legs were pretty tired from training this week and run the evening before. I was hoping for NP in 200s but today wasn't the day. The last 3 years I can get my power in races, crits or TT up to 192-195 but no higher. 200+ has been my goal for awhile I had hoped today might be the day.

I left it all out there and was panting and wheezing horribly when finished. Cold and wet are my two worst asthma triggers add in hard effort not good combination as I hammered the way back into the wind.

Strange pushing really hard for 30' I didn't feel like "when is this going to end" but rather that was super short...weird.

Ended up 3rd fastest bike split of relays and one had a bike time that would have put him averaging 30 mph so not right. I would have been 51/196 on the regular sprint..not bad for being old women relatively speaking.

Off my bike fast, through timing mat, there was Emily took my chip off put it on and off she went. At same time Kevin was going out on the bike...yah Kevin.

Emily did well. She runs on her own, but with soccer 3x a week limited amount of other training she can do safely.

She finished strong and I could tell you did her best and gave it her all.

After I finished bike, found a place to see both Emily finish run and Kevin finish bike. Emily finished run and Kevin came in about 4' later so we were able to get some T2 pictures of him.

Took a shower and changed then timed it perfectly to see Kevin come in.

Talked to some new members of my tri team who both won 3rd in their AG.

Found out we placed first so hung around for awards. The other female relay either didn't show (we scared them off LOL) or switched to coed. Hardware is hardware...with my time on this course from 2 years ago I would have placed 2nd in my AG which normally would never happen. I can only control my training and doing my best race day. I picked out a jug of Hammer Gel Apple Cinnamon as my prize which I use on my long runs.


It wasn't about being fast today. It was about having fun with my family with the fitness we all have.

I felt incredibly proud and happy that my changing from lazy Mom on the couch to athlete has touched and changed others in my family. I felt blessed today.


Firm has races almost every weekend which is great but more disorganized and less glitz than some.