Daybreak Triathlon - Olympic Course - Triathlon

Smooth, solid swim for me. Swimming in Blue Lake so much gives me an advantage. I'm always seeing weird stuff along the bottom. This lake was shallow but I was never startled by the sudden appearance of rocks. plants, etc. I was surprised to see so many people backstroking and even a few snorkles.

Nothing, well maybe pushed harder towards the end.

Need to speed it up!

Loved the bike as usual. I rode well--loved the climbing portions. I really feel that's a strength as I'll pass people laboring and breathing heavy and I just kind of zip by breathing quietly. I did have a weird few seconds when I leaned into my aero mounted water bottle to get a drink and the straw got caught in an air vent in my helmet and I was stuck like that for about 5 seconds! When I finally got unstuck I had a good chuckle to myself!

Nothing, pleased with my bike

Went smoothly

Be faster

Uuughhh...struggled on this run. To be fair, it was 90+ degrees by the time I got on the run. My heart rate spiked as I started out too hard and just couldn't get it to slow down. I never walked, just death shuffled--especially the last two miles. It was harder than it should have been! The best part about the run was two kids with water guns that sprayed the heck out me around mile 3.5!

Started slower--I know this! I always feel better when I get 10-12 minutes into the run, I needed to be patient. I will work on this for my next race.

Immediately found some shade. My lovely daughter took off my socks and shoes and my feet went immediately into cramp mode. It was while I was laying there that I heard my name called--I had placed 2nd in my age group out of 2--LOL! Oh well, still faster than all the other middle aged ladies sitting on their butts!


My inability to perform faster!


The race itself was fine. The athlete briefing should have been done earlier. We had to walk a mile to the start and the briefing got over around 7:45am and our swim started at 8am. As we were walking a race guy came by on a bike yelling at us to hurry up--well, geez, then hold the briefing earlier!