Mooseman Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Swim canceled due to lightening.

I felt really good about my bike. Much stronger than I expected to feel actually. I was passing people like crazy. I thought, given the time trial start that people would be passing me like mad. I think probably 10 people zipped passed me on the bike. I did the first 4 or so miles comfortably, then I heard Josh's voice in my head telling me that since the bike course was reduced, he was just gonna put the hammer to it. I was still alive after mile 4 - feeling good, so I went for it. I wanted to see if I pushed it really hard on the bike, what would happen on my run. This seemed as good a time to try that as any. I even passed a few people going up Devil's Hill and that felt nice.

I don't think given that it was my first race, that I'd do anything differently. My normal biking pace is 17mph - this was 18.5 - I thought that was good enough. I guess I will need to learn to drink more. I did enough for this race - but might not have been enough on a longer race.

I can't jump off my bike - I am slow coming into transition. I run with my bike but I'm slow at that too.

Not sure. I'm trying to focus on the swim bike run first - I don't think I added any unnecessary time here.

I felt pretty slow to start. Was glad I'd decided to leave the 310xt on the bike so that I could just try and focus on how I felt and not dog myself about moving too slowly. After a mile or so, I definitely started to hit my comfy zone and pushed it. It's funny because when I did the course a month before the race, the hill at mile 2.5 killed me. (of course that day I'd done the full 27 mile bike course). On race day, that hill was nothing. I was shocked when I came up to the turn around because I thought I still had to run up the killer hill. I also got a big boost of energy passing Josh and he high five'd me. That felt good. After the turnaround I just tried to kick it and have fun. It was feeling good to finish my first race after all the prep - even though it wasn't a tri.

First water station - tried to run and drink. Got SO little liquid in. Hadn't over drunk on the bike so I knew I'd need it - so at the next couple I stopped, took big gulps and pressed on. I did the right thing for the time - I need to practice with a fuel belt see if I can drink out of the little bottles.

Stopped immediately after the finish line to talk to Mike and Colin and wait for Karen.


Inexperience.


Despite being REALLY bummed that the swim was canceled AND the bike had 10 miles lopped off, this was still a good experience for me. I'd never been in a bike race. The night before I was SO nervous I was a MESS. Hopefully even though the swim didn't happen, I've not gotten some of those out of control nerves out of the way. Overall I was happy with my performance. I'm a slow runner, I knew this going in... what I didn't anticipate was that my biking was faster than I thought. At the Goodale's Monday night rides I am the slowest one by far and I feel like a dork - so I thought sure bike would be my limiter. I do wish I could get better results from the website though - like my place in each event and overall place and such - I am very disappointed that I cannot get that.