Cranberry Trifest - TriathlonOlympic

About halfway through the swim was when it hit me that I was TIRED and that racing was probably a stupid idea (having done the Timberman 70.3 the weekend before). But I just tried to stay steady and to bilateral breathing so I could glide a little more. I had no strength in my L arm - I really need to get my shoulder injury taken care of before next year. Drifted a little on the final straightaway, or could have been a little faster.

Not do a half Iron the weekend before!! Fix my shoulder so that I can swim straight when I get tired

There was a little bit of a run up from the water, but still that was a fairly ridiculous swim time. Not sure why I was so slow

Rinse/dry off feet. Didn't have any water in my bottle and forgot to take my extra towel out of my bike, so just bypassed that step and carried on.

As soon as I got on the bike, I wanted OFF! I just didn't feel right. Felt like I was pedaling funny, my feet were both asleep within a few miles and no amount of wiggling my toes was waking them up. I was pushing as hard as I could, and there were times in the flat sections that I could only muster up 14 mph! I was just tired. Ended up with the same pace as I had at Timberman (that had 31 more miles!) Also, back was killing me. There was a crash, so we had to slow down a little (turned out to be a friend of mine) and then it rained, so had to be a little cautious on the turns.

Not take a week off from the bike, work on core.

Was dizzy. Had vomited a little on the bike,and just felt sick. Really wanted to lay down more than I wanted to head out for a 6 mile run!

Was super tired at beginning of run, but started to feel stronger as the race went on (as evidence by my negative splits). Thought that I would walk the hill near the end, but felt strong when I got to it, so ran up. Finished at a good pace.

Would like to do this one again when I'm rested. However, even though I was pretty tired, I really enjoyed it.