St. Patrick's Day Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

What can I say? The swim was a joke.

Nothing.

After the botched swim and running into freezing rain, it was hard for me to get excited about the rest of the race. I found my bike, saw that my transition bag was SOAKED from heavy rain, and at that point pretty much lost any interest in going fast.

So I just sat back, lit a cigarette and made myself a martini. Joking - I took a lllooonnnggg time getting out of T1.

Oh, I probably wouldn't have fussed so much with socks or a jacket. But I do have to say that the jacket was a godsend on the bike split.

I was slow because I didn't care.

Nothing....roads were dangerously wet so I'm not going to be an ass and crash.

Well, since I took so long in T1, I thought at I would at least lend some continuity to the suck that were my times and make this a long transition, too. What the heck...

Not sit and stare at my wet running shoes, my wet green hat with attached red beard. Probably not tied my jacket around my bike stem (although I really like the jacket and didn't want it to "grow legs and walk away." I probably would have not dug-through my soaked transition bag looking for a Gu that I didn't need.

The course was flooded with water. There was mud all over the trails from the rain runoff. I tried to doge these as much as I could.

Probably made sure my shoes were in a water proof bag back at transition, with duck tape over the holes to minimize water leakage.

I ate a pancake.


Not giving a crap about my speed. Disinterest. Oh, and I'm still overweight.


This race had amazing volunteers. I was seriously impressed! I'm sure it would have been a fun race had it not been raining and freezing.