Rev3 Anderson - Half Rev - Triathlon

My goal was to expend as little energy as possible while still maintaining a respectable speed. I think it went pretty well.

Probably could have gone a little faster without impacting my bike.

Not the greatest transition for me. I was trying to make myself comfortable for the long bike ride ahead, so I took a few steps that I don't usually take in transition, like putting on gloves, heart rate monitor, and socks. Then when I put on my tri top all of the nutrition fell out of the pockets, and I only picked up a powerbar and left the rest of it on the ground. Then after running to the mount line in my shoes, I had trouble clipping in again. 12 people passed me during this transition, 3 of them in my age group.

A lot of things.

My goal time was a 3:30, so clearly I went too fast. I just felt so great on the bike that I didn't want to slow down, and it didn't feel like I was pushing that hard. Didn't eat as much on the bike as I planned because of dropping everything in T1, but I was vigilant about drinking enough. Also, this was my first time taking water from a bike aid station. Wow, I am not good at that.

Slow down. My run definitely suffered because I went too hard on the bike.

As soon as I jumped off the bike I could feel how tired I was. Once I got my bike racked, I took my time putting on clean/dry socks, getting into my running shoes, and drinking some gatorade before convinving myself to get started with the run.

???

The run was brutal. Not because of the course, it would have been a lovely run if I weren't so tired, but from the beginning I just didn't have the energy I needed to get it done. I had to walk 3 times before the first mile-marker. Yeah, three. Not good. When I first started running, I looked down at my watch and it showed a 6:45 pace, so I tried to slow down but I could only get down to a 7:30 pace which is still ridiculously too fast for anything longer than a 5K. I basically ran about small spurts and then walked for 20-30 seconds for the entire 13 miles. The running segments started around .3 miles but gradually degraded so that for the last mile I was having trouble running for .15, and sometimes only did .1 before I had to walk. This was probably the hardest run I've ever done, but somehow I managed to finish.

I need to work on my pacing still. For some reason it hurt more to run slow than to run fast, so I run/walked the whole thing instead of pacing like I've been practicing.

Walked around a little, then took a seat and had to try really hard to not throw up. Felt really bad until Jenn found me a Mountain Dew, which I usually don't like, but I think the carbonation helped my stomach, and my body probably needed the sugar too.


I went too fast on the bike, and didn't have anything left for the run.


This was a great race! Loved the course, loved the atmosphere!