Kure Beach double sprint - TriathlonSprint

The "swim" was a joke. I would guess that the waves were about 6-8 feet, strong current. Before the race the option was given to do a duathlon if you did not want to swim. For me the swim was about survival, no form, nothing other than making it to the bouy and then it was not as bad. Coming in I got hammered twice, could not tell which way was up or down. I finally came up for air and got hammered again.

I should have calmed down a bit and remembered that I had done this before, it would be OK. I really let the swim ruin the rest of the race, I really wanted to quit after the first swim!

Nice bike course on fresh paved road, what a pleasure to ride on. Felt like I was having a great bike, apparently I did not.

I guess I should have pushed it harder on the bike.

My heart was not in this race, my first run was OK except I kept dry heaving for the first part of it. I guess it was a combination of the seawater that I drank and feeling a bit wobbly.
The second run all I could think about was how much I did not want to do the second swim. I remember thinking that someone surely must have drowned by now so that they would have had to cancell the second swim. I definately slowed by pace down in anticipation of needing every last drop of oxygen to swim.

Run faster!

The post race warm down consisted of puking into the dunes, followed by thank god that's over, I'm never doing that race again!


I really just did not care about how I was doing in the race, I just wanted to finish and for it to be over.


As rough as the water was last year, this year may have been worse. Going into the race I felt like I would be OK givin the fact that I live here and have practiced swimming in rough surf, just not this rough.