West Deptford Riverwinds Tri - TriathlonSprint

Overall, I was satisfied with my swim. Not happy, but satisfied. When the volunteer told me my lane, I thought the previous swimmer still had a lap to go, so I just stood there for a few seconds. When I didn't move, he yelled, "go, NOW!" which started me off a little flustered. I put my seed time as 12 minutes so I obviously bested that, but I know I can do this sub 10. I just freaked out a bit at the beginning and relied on too much breaststroke.

Not freak out? I would have been much faster swimming more free, but I felt my heart rate soaring so I decided to slow it down to leave something for the bike portion.

Took WAY too long in T1, but it seemed like time had stopped. I swam in a bathing suit, pulled on shorts, shirt, gloves, socks, bike shoes, helmet and then double and triple checked everything. This was my first transition ever, so I think I was just super nervous that I'd forget something.

Practice T1 more! Turn on the Garmin on the way out of T1.

I was so happy about the bike. I've been riding about 11 or 12 mph in training around my town, but on a mostly flat and mostly open course I was soaring. My family almost did find me to cheer me on because I was so far ahead of the pace that I told them to expect. My heartrate was super high this whole ride, but I did not feel like it at all. It was either just pure adrenaline, or somehow getting the chest strap wet messed it up. I am going to guess in was just the rush.

I forgot to turn my Garmin on until I hit mile 1 which was a bummer. Also, I had to stop at one intersection because the cop directing traffic didn't wave me on, but then a rider behind me just sailed through. I guess he did see me, but I erred on the side of road caution and stopped at the red light.

Not much I would do differently, I was really happy with this ride.

This was really just a hand off to my sister who was doing the run.

Not much, she needed to stop because she dropped the chip in the hand off.

The run was in complete sun and by this time it was near 90. My sis is normally a 9 min/mile runner, but was nursing a knee injury and was very disapointed by her time. I was just happy we finished and didn't care about the time at all. I ran in the last 1/4 mile with her.

Be well and not injured!

We walked around and grabbed some drinks. Grabbed our stuff from transition and left for brunch at our mom's house.


Overall, I was very happy to get through our first effort safely and under our 2 hour goal. We will both be individually competing at our next race in July, and it was great to do a practice run and find out what we need to work on. I was mostly thrilled that I still felt good at the end of my bike - I didn't gasp across the line, and I felt like I still had plenty of reserves left so than I can do the run next time.