Danskin Webster Lake - TriathlonSprint

well, about 75 meters in someone grabbed my leg and I lost my chip. got rather cranky about that for a while. spent a chunk of the first leg of the triangle breaststroking off to the side as there was severe chaos, got kicked a lot by people breaststroking, sidestroking, and mambo-ing. after the first bouy got into a really great groove, swam very well.

um, staple the chip to my ankle?

it's a LOOONNGGG walk up to the transition area at webster lake. and I walked it, as I was trying to be good about keeping my heart rate down. I'm a crappy runner, so I just walked very fast. talked to my husband, who was pacing me alongside.

not a thing, unless I can convince the race organizers to set up closer to the water.

bike went GREAT. beat my best time on that loop (we've been riding it) by about 8 minutes. got smoked by some seriously great bikers, there was a pack that I passed on flats/downhills and got passed by on hills, but also passed a good number of people.

only issue was the hamstring cramp I got around mile 3.5. spent the bigger downhills trying to stretch it out, but there wasn't much I could do.

not a thing. not cramp? I was appropriately fed and hydrated, and I haven't had hamstring cramp issues before, so no idea what was up.

barreled into T2. volunteers were directing everyone right, so I got yelled at when I went left so I could stop at the portapottie. but there's sometimes when you just have to stop. continuted my plan of walking the transitions. saw Nikki waiting for her relay partner.

buy a bigger bladder?

oy. got out on the run. ran for exactly one minute, and between the hamstring (very ouchie) and the heart rate (very high) I decided perhaps I would walk for a bit. saw the hubby and another friend. walked another couple minutes... then my husband caught up to me and yelled that if I ran the downhills, I would meet my sub-2 hr goal. after the embarassment of having him catch me so easily wore off (oh, and after my heart rate dropped) I started doing just that. during the next big uphill, another friend caught up to me - she stayed with me the whole rest of the run and really saved me. I ran the downhills, then ran until the cramping or heart rate got out of hand, then walked.

well, lose 70 lbs and train more? considering I started a couch-to-5K program a couple months ago, I really can't beat myself up too much about this. I would have loved to have done better, and on a flat course I MIGHT have been ok.... but I've got room to improve.

um, high five'd Sally Edwards. decided that puking on her would be seriously bad form. crossed line and walked for a little while... found shade to try to cool down, that didn't work so I jumped in the lake with Adam and Lin.


weight, and lack of time since I started training. both are fixable.


liked the race... but there were just millions of people there. luckily I was happy with a long cooldown before leaving, because you couldn't get your bikes out until everyone was on the run course, and there were still lots of waves after mine (which was wave 14) lots of traffic.