Crystal River Sprint Triathlon #3 2005 - TriathlonSprint

I made a bad choice in clothing. Turned out my tri top is too big and it gave me a lot of drag. Current pushed me into some bouys. Really wanted to be under 8 minutes....failure number one.

Wear clothing that fits. Learn to pace myself in open water better. Sight less

I had my shoes elasticed on and couldn't get my feet in. I ended up with my feet on my shoes for about a mile. This has worked really well for me in the past, but I hadn't planned on racing and I haven't practiced it recently.

Decide to race more than 24 hours in advance

Pathetic. Failure number 2. It was a windy but I should have been able to do better than this. I probably lost 2 minutes or so messing about with my shoes. My legs were sore from my little experiment yesterday.

I wish I knew

this went fine...only thing that went well was transitions :(

Nothing

Blistering 12 minute miles. Pitiful. My hip started hurting after the first mile. Also got blisters on my foot. Is it possible there is a pair of running shoes out there that will not give me blisters? I was really hot the last mile.

It wouldbe nice if I could actually train running some day

Drank some water and gatorade. Got cleaned up and into dry clothes. Wendi Got 2nd in Athenas so we watched her get her prize


I can't effing run because my hip is still effing broken and I can't effing train the run. Blisters. I'm very disappointed in my bike. I have been training it really hard and have a new bike this year and I was only marginally faster. Don't know what to do. My legs were sore from my little experiment yesterday which made it difficult to push hard. My top was too big and caused a lot of drag on the swim.


This is a nice small race. I should not have done it tho. I'm just depressed about the whole thing. I have been training a year, invested in a new bike and I'm a whopping minute faster. I'm sick of being injured and training in pain. Today I am really ready to chuck the whole thing. Everybody else did really well.