Big Lick Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

I have not been in the pool enough over the past few weeks and it showed on race day. I really struggled to finish the swim at all. The thought of throwing up my hand and bailing on the whole race did occurr to me more than once during my swim. I was able to stick it out though. I swam a whole lot more breaststroke than I intended to. I intended to swim no breaststroke.

Swim more leading up to the race

I ran my bike up the hill at the beginning of the bike leg. I had trouble when I raced here in the spring, and I knew that trying to start on the hill would be problematic. I did have a good T1, though

More bodyglide on my ankles

Boy, my bike leg was rough. I was having a hard time maintaining anything like the kind of speed that I know I cam capable of. I was very disappointed in my time and speed.

I really need to lose about 40 pounds. That will make all the difference

T2 went OK. This was probably the highlight of my whole race. I have to run with socks, and I was able to get them on quickly.

I was DFL for my group on the run. The wheels just fell off.I could not make my legs turn over and I had to walk a whole lot.

I think that I did not take on enough calories on the bike, and I thinnk that being 30 pounds heavier than last year did not help.

Set-up and the Kirk family YMCA did a bang-up job of registration, marking, and manning the water stops. Hats off to them.