Sheriffs Spring Sprint - TriathlonSprint

Goal time 5:50-6:20

One of my pacing goals for the race to start slowier and get faster thru each segment as well as through the race. I held back a bit and didn't swim to aggresively to hit and push off the wall. I was passed at 75 yds by the person behind me and I tried to draft off her...but letting her pass me wasted a bunch of time...I should have just pushed off and let her navigate around me. I waved to Emily on 3rd trip down the pool. I was a bit nervous about how she was and doing as I wouldn't be around.

As some one who came out of the water dead last twice last summer...I'm very very pleased with the progress here.

Maybe swim a little harder to end end turn around faster...but it may make 15 seconds difference. I do swim this distance a tad faster normally...but truly this was my best swim ever mentally. I remember thinking this feels good and easy and that is such a change from last years swims.

Goal time 2-3 minutes
They don't time transtions at this race..so I estimated as my HRM wasn't working and I forgot to check it.

I passed two women in T1 and think relatively I was wicked fast.

Nada

Goal time 29-33

MOP...how cool is that....I was right in there and it includes men!!

It was a hard bike for me which given my lack of time on my bike I shouldn't be surprised. I was comfortable in areo and was faster second half of the route which was part of my plan to keep getting faster. The second half was easier for me as it was flater and I think my legs were more willing to push harder. I was having fun out on the bike course but had some thoughts of oh my Mooseman is much more difficult than this...I need more time on my bike.

Drank 14 oz of Gatorade on bike...goal was 14-20...really tried to push myself to drink because normally I'm not thirsty at the start of a bike.

Ended up 21st out of 42 of the women on the bike and of those that beat me all but 2 of them were younger than me.



Keep losing weight, ride my road bike more than 3 times in last month ...we were in Greece riding touring bikes and then I was sick. I was most frustrated with my bike as it was tough and I expect more out of myself.

Goal time 1:30-2:30...should have estimated this time swaped with T1 as I put on socks here

Legs felt hard to move on after getting off the bike....struggled a bit with my socks, picked up my hat/sm water bottle/race number and off I went. All day I kept like my tri shorts were falling down ...again here off the bike, but they weren't...it was odd to feel like I had not shorts on my belly...but I checked they were always in right place...not sure why it felt that way. I saw some of my rack mates so I knew I was doing well timewise compareably. As I came into T2 I saw the IM women who passed me on the bike so she gained mabye 2 minutes on me...I thought wow I did well on this course. I was feeling good as I had made both my goal swim and bike times.

More practice doing T2 after riding hard. Don't recall passing anyone here like in T1

Goal time 28-34

I was curious a lot on how I'd do on the run as I've improved a lot in the last 6 months, but in a tri everything is different. Worked on thinking quick & light and keeping my leg turnover fast. I had hoped to keep the same pace or negative split...but that would be a challenge. Mile one was 10:19...happy with that. I felt like I was going almost as fast as I could. At about 15 minutes I tried to go faster...mile 2 I ran in 10:40...not the time direction I wanted. But I had a downhill now and knew I was just 10 minutes from the finish so I pushed as much as I could. I finally here felt in the grove and was at a pace I could continue and my legs felt good. My toe was hurting and I knew what had happened...my nail cuts my toe only when I run in races....and I had checked it the night before as well. The last .5 mile was a slight uphill to the finish which they made you run by and circle back. I improved a lot over last year where most of my tris were 11:52 m/m or slower. I kept good mental outlook as the slow swimmer/fast runners passed me in the first mile out there.

Push more...but today I gave it all I could and was proud of my run. Last year I would be in the bottom 10 people in my run times often bottom 5...today I was about 25% from the bottom...progress for me!

Next day: Finally results came up and I'm confused as my run ranking dropped and I can't really tell how many people competed as there are a bunch of people with zeros. When they posted results at the end everyone was out of the pool and off the bike so my ranking stayed the same there, but some finished later and were not done with the run, which is why I dropped in both run and overall. If I was 60 seconds faster would move up 8 people so finished with a cluster. Reality check I'm older and a women compared to most folks..I was one of the oldest 5 women...so getting to the true MOP would be amazing.

Hugged Kevin, walked around and then waited for Emily to finish. Wow she came in about 8 minutes after I did...and sprinted hard to the finish.


I was sick for 10 days just prior to this Tri right after returning from a 10 day trip to Greece so I wasn't in my top form. I could still loose some weight and that would help.


Emily did great and when they posted our times...shocking but true, I was only 4 seconds faster than she was...and we placed next to each other...63 and 64. Emily placed 2nd in her AG and had so many positive comments as people ran and biked near her...wow you are 11...great job! My bike time was Emily's run time and I ran her bike time...it was weird how similar we did. I train 7-10 hours a week and she does like 1.5 hours....youth...gotta love it! I guess I may say now I'm in the back of the MOP and not the BOP anymore...but I need to double check my final rank as I forgot to write it down.

Funny thing is if I competed in my AG I would have placed 2nd so this Athena thing is weird. The two women who beat me where much thinner than I and some 10-15 years younger. Who cares, I did this to compete against myself and see how I did. Best thing is I had fun the whole day and didn't stress or feel negative thoughts for but a few seconds here and there...much improvement for me. PB times (speed wise) here in both the swim and run in tris. Plus on a hilly bike course this would be a PB as well..thanks to Will and all my winter training I'm getting faster!

I met and chatted with the women who won Athena last year, weighs 40 pounds less than me and beat me only by 2 minutes...she is no longer a Athena...so I was excited to see how I compared...if I continue to loose weight I think I'll continue to get faster.

It was a blast, I met my times, my mind was in a sweet place, Emily did awesome, we brought home hardware...it was a sweet day!