Sylvania Triathlon - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

This was a good swim. I lost some time because I was trying to pee and no matter what I did I couldn't figure it out. I kept trying to swim without kicking so I could go and nada. So anyway, too much putzing. Finally caught up to Kimm and passed her before the turn. Right after the final corner I saw a guy from the wave behind us pass us. Yikes- that's never happened to me during a swim. I ususally swim up through the preceding wave, but I've never had people swim past me from the following wave. That was a bummer. Right as I was approaching the end of the swim I saw Steve, Trish's teammate, up and out on the beach. WTH!! He started behind us so I was pizzed. ;) There was a super long run through the deep beach sand to transition and this totally got my HR jacked up.

Not messed around so much with peeing.

This was fine- again, long run back to transition, then transition itself was huge- we had to run with our bike through the entire Oly area then around the corner and through the sprint transition area then around another corner and down the driveway. I had a ton of sand on my feet but just stuck my feet in my bike shoes hoping it would dry and fall off as I biked.

For Rev3 I will go back to using a squirt bottle to get the gunk off my feet- I'm not running a half mary with dirty feet. that would be a recipe for disaster.

I did better than I expected. Went out into a lot of headwind so I just tried to pace myself well enough to run hard. After about 5 miles, Trish came flying by. We turned halfway in and got out of some of the wind. That's when Kimm passed me. That's also about the time I got sick of the paper tag on my bike which was blowing all over and scratching my inner thighs. I ripped it off and stuffed it in my jersey pocket and never saw it again. The whole way back to town/transition was with a tailwind which was so nice. It was quiet and I just spun away. My girly bits were getting a bit uncomfy as I spent the entire ride in aero. The windy ride was a great dress rehersal for Rev3. I was doing 15/16 mph into it and 18-21 on the way back in. Thank God it wasn't the other way around.

Tape the number down better.

Again, a long one due to transition set up. Sooooo long to be running in my bike shoes! Then I'd really wanted to use the porta johns and I forgot. Oooops. Also the sand had *not* fallen off in my shoes so I attempted to rub it off with a corner of my transition towel so this ate up time. I could totally have gotten out of t2 way faster. this was the first time I've raced without socks on the bike so my t2 was much slower than usual.

Had a squirt bottle for the sand and go back to the baby powder in the socks routine.

This was a hot but strong run for me. I didn't wear my Garmin so I'm not positive, but I probably slowed down a bit towards mile 4 ish. It was getting hot and I was really pushing it. this is only a minute or two off my stand alone 10k time. I only got passed by one female total and passed several men and a couple of women. The run was boring but tolerable with a couple of neighborhoods full of supportive folk with sprinklers, hoses, and homemade water stops. Really nice community support! At 100 yards from the finish line, Tom tossed me my 22+ lb. toddler. I was like, "Seriously?". He went, "Yeah!" so I tried to run it in with Oren. Ugh- he's heavy and I was totally pooped. It was like running into a brick wall. I got heavy applause and remarks from the announcer, but frankly trying to run it in with Oren was kind of anticlimatic! I had to stop and then try again and then walk a bit and then run a little towards the end, thought I was going to bobble his head off!!

Not run that far with my kiddo!! It turns out that in a race where they awarded trophies 5 deep in AG, I was only 10 seconds out of 6th and a minute out of 5th. :( Oh well, hopefully they got a really cute photo of us together. :) :) A trophy isn't such a big deal with such a cutie in my arms.

Hand kiddo back to his Daddy and find beer. ;) Waited for Kimm, KL, and Smoak to finish. Sat in shade and eat watermelon with my son.


That was pretty much it for me- I was racing but at the same time knew this was a dress rehersal for Cedar Point so didn't want to go crazy or get injured. Raced within myself but definitely pushed.


Great race, good peeps.