St. Anthony's Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

rough swim. Sighting was horrible. Made it to the first buoy, easy. Then it got worse. Too many folks treading water and breast stroking. By the time I got past the left turn, it was easy. The waves didn't push me over even though they're coming parallel at us. It was much, much nicer on the way out. I swallowed MORE water at the Saturday practice than today. Took two minutes off last year's time, and last year was pretty flat!

learn to be more aggressive. I was for a bit, but could've been more. Swam over some people, hit some. Came out practically unscathed.

had to search for vaseline again- bodyglide didn't prevent wetsuit rash under arms which hurt like hell. slathered on before bike. sat down to get wetsuit off ankles and threw it on the lovely concrete pole.

not much. Is it normal to get wetsuit burn?

This bike was hard. I had forgotten to put my computer on after we were halfway to swim start. FUGEDDITABOUTIT. So I did the whole thing no idea how I was doing or how far into it I was. It was windy and I had to catch myself, some parts were flat out fast, traffic control was much better than last year. Got no penalties :) played cat and mouse with some chick who was spinning really fast and her hips were swinging too much. My feet got numb again. No feeling in them when I got off the bike. I have never wanted to get off my bike so badly before. Passed and got passed by about the same number of folks. Knocked three minutes off last year's time.

learn to corner at faster speeds. Learn to speed up better.

nothing big really. more vaseline. grabbed a gel, stuck it in my bra and off I go.

NOw, folks, here is where it all falls apart. Notice my rankings: 94,123,133... see a trend here? I so suck at running. I just haven't gotten better. Let's see... I violated the #1 LAW OF TRIATHLON: Nothing new on race day. I had shoes but I needed lock laces, so I put them on last night and they felt great. What I didn't anticipate was the swelling from the heat. They were tight! Lisa(GatorGirl22) passed by me when I was down adjusting them. My feet hurt the whole run, they had gotten numb on the bike and couldn't get back. Saw Ron the GrandPooBah of BT, Rich, Possum, and Renee snuck by me, did a roundabout and came to grab my ass. anyways back to my run... it was painful the first two miles. I was incredibly slow. Got a side stitch. Got passed by EVERYONE. I want a TnT coach- those folks can run. I ADDED 1:51 to last year's run time.

run faster. Try to make more Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday run club workouts. I need to take advantage of this free coaching stuff. Tues are tempo or hills, Thurs is track, and Sat is just run.

my running coach was the first person to approach me at the finish. We hung out and recapped our races before Tom finally made his way up to us. He finished 16th in his 50-54 AG. Walked around, food line was looong, saw Sharon, got our bikes, walked to BTCentral.


I suck at running and my bike is hum-hum. That's basically it.


I wish the water stops were at the mile markers and not before them.