Tidewater International - TriathlonOlympic

Felt pretty comfortable and smooth on the swim. All women were in the third wave, felt great to be coming up on the blue and red caps from the first two waves! Not used to waves or salty water, but I like swimming so I was fine.

Have a wetsuit!!!

This time looks long, but I think that's mostly due to the long run from the beach to the transition area. This was a GREAT transition for me.

5/15 AG, 16/77 OA

EAT SOMETHING. (this becomes important later)

Drank a whole bottle - a bottle per hour, right? I never do that! Really hammered the ride like I do with my Tuesday night group. Road was pretty trashed by the faster athletes.

Not push so hard...and eat something. Although I feel great about this ride as just a bike ride, I would really pay for it later.

Pretty quick T2 for me. First time with Yankz!!

12/15 AG, 50/77 OA

As soon as I stepped off the bike, I had severe cramping in my calves. That's weird, I thought. About 2 miles in the cramps had gone away in my calves, but instead were in my glutes. At this point I knew I was WAY under-nourished and needed calories badly. But there were none on course. Last year Setup provided Heed on the run but not here. As I came through the first loop I asked my boyfriend to walk with me, told him I wanted to just quit. Told him I couldn't finish. He encouraged me to do the short part of the figure 8. So I decided even if I walk the remainder of the "run," I would finish the darn race. I would earn it. It was TORTUROUS. So hot. Walking felt fine, but every time I tried to pick it up to a little jog, CRAMPS through every muscle group in my legs. I realized what I had done. I managed to jog in the last 0.2 miles, and there were a LOT of athletes cheering me on as I finished. I felt like hell, but put a huge smile on for the photographer anyway. I still felt accomplished.

EAT MORE!!

Came through the finishing chute to nothing but water and pizza. Vomit. I needed calories, so I hugged a few friends that waited me out and took off for the 7-11 on the corner. Bought a gatorade and sat in the shade of a tree.

As of today (Mon Morning) I am STILL crampy and dehydrated.


Obviously, I did not eat nearly enough - both before the race started and on the course. And I hit the bike WAY too hard.


I raced Setup for my first Oly last fall and it was an amazing experience. I only finished 10 minutes faster! But because it was such a brutally hot day and I finished so late, there was NO nutrition left, and there was no Heed on the course - I was kind of counting on that (I KNOW HUGE MISTAKE) but I had it on Patriot's!!! Setup races are convenient but starting to be less and less appealing to me, not sure.

CRAZY competetive field. Not used to this with the RMS races, that's for sure!