Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Was terrified of the swim, relaxed focused on my mantra, swim-my-swim-breathe-swim-my-swim-breathe...worked well for me. Closed my eyes thru most of it and went into the swim zone. Went WAY beyond the hard left bouy, drove me nuts, probably added another 200 yeards...urgh, next time ...open my eyes!!! Overall thrilled with my results, I floated on my back twice to regroup and refocus, other than that freestyle all the way baby. Thanks Kevin....you rock!

Keep my eyes open. Swim faster.

Not talk to the woman at the rack next to me, who very apparently was in no hurry and taking an opinion poll on whether to wear regular glasses or sunglasses on the bike. Ditch the biking gloves, made me go too slow and also had to pull over to secure them....stoopid!

No bike gloves.

Some of the roads were a little wet in some spots. I was very conservative and held back on the downhills and rode my brakes a lot. I also just got my pedals a couple of weeks ago, so I was more tenative than I should have been, could have shaved at least 10 or 15 minutes off of my time. One woman wiped out at the school parking lot right behind me, slid right across the driveway....yikes....so I continued on my coservative pace all the way back.

I would not have changed my conservative ride on this particular race because of the lack of comfort in my bike handling skills. I did also go more conservatively as well in order to be sure I had enough left for the run, apparently that didn't make any difference, should have left more on the road, it wouldn't have mattered on the run.

Went well, took off my tri top and put on running shirt. Wasted a little time, but I'm OK with that.

Dissappointed by how long it took me to run it. I did lap times, should have not done that and just checked on average time for the entire run. I finished feeling good and I could have pushed myself more on the run.

Tenantive on the bike because of limited bike handling skills



I was happy about my overall performance as a first timer. I felt good after the race, which meant I should have pushed myself a little more on the bike and definetly on the run, but my goal was to finish in 3:30 and I was 1:30 ahead of that and I conquered my biggest fear....SWIMMING!!!