Thief River Falls Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

chose to draft off the persons in my lane. Had trouble getting out of the pool because of a funny ledge. Felt pretty good throughout. Concentrated on staying calm and sticking with my usual breathing. Have no idea how my stroke was; close to how it should have been?

Gotten out of the pool faster. Maybe swim in the lane with the ladder next year.

wasn't going to put socks on this year, but it was so cold, I thought I'd lose toes to frost bite if I didn't.

dry my feet off better before trying to put on socks.

Not long after the turnaround point, I was changing to a much lower gear because I was now biking into a strong headwind/crosswind and my bloody chain came off! Again! I'm not sure how I did that, but this time I had to stop my bike and work to get it back on. Wasted a couple minutes futzing around with it before I could take off again. It was fun biking back with grease all over my hands, trying to push up my shades.

Not mis-shift and drop my chain.

Runners went on easily and quickly.

Started the run taking really short strides. I could not feel my feet at all as they were totally frozen. Thighs were completely numb. I was tempted to turn off to our hotel, which was right off of the race course, to warm up or quit. The crazy thoughts that enter our heads during these events!
By the time weigh2go caught up to me about 15 minutes later, I finally could feel something again and my stride started to smooth out. I had my fastest 5k time ever today: 31:05, and knew I was going to finish well. Again, didn't have anything left for a kick at the end, but am glad that I left it all on the course and didn't play it conservatively today.

nothing. I did great!

change into warm dry clothes, sit in the hottub at the hotel, eat at the Chinese buffet.


loosing my chain, the wind, trouble getting out of the pool.


Took home some hardware today! Placed first in the Athena group. Took off 15 minutes from last year's time. Yee Haw!