Devil's Challenge Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

The water was freezing! I couldn't breath, and neither could most of the other people. Tons of people just water-walked the whole thing. I kept shoving my head under to try to get used to it and ended up swimming a chunk of it anyway.

Well, I'd like to say that I'd warm up in the water. But, I'm not sure how that's possible given the start conditions.

This was a decent transition. I remembered to peel my suit while running and had my cap and goggles off before getting to my bike.

I still need to learn to bike and run without socks.

This was a really hard course, and I was doing it on a crappy bike. I ran out of gears pretty quickly on those hills, and did a fair bit of standing to compensate. I'm happy that I never had to get off and walk, though.

This was my last tri on the old bike. Next time I'll have a new bike!

Screaming fast transition - fastest in my age group. Of course, I don't have bike shoes, which helps a lot, eh?

Considering the number of hills, and how much I burned my legs on the bike, I'm actually okay with the run.

Don't burn out the legs on the bike so I can run faster.

Not much. Walked a bit and drank a bunch. Waited for Siri to cross and cheered her on. My husband showed up and we hit the road.


I'd been battling a bug all week and had done zero training this week. So, I was pretty stiff going into the race. I should have tried to go for a quick run in the morning to loosen up or something.


It was a fun race, regardless of the weather and how hard it was. I said it was "just right" because I can't really say it was too hard, since I finished without walking or anything. But, it was a smidge harder than I would have liked on this particular day.