Festival of Flowers Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

The swim was not as good as it could have been. But there was a sighting problem, seems someone made off with some of the sighting bouys last night. So, almost missed the first turn bouy. Also, stopped with about 15 other women to yell for the lifeguards to help one of the men who was in trouble and hanging onto a bouy. The chop was pretty good and I think I swallowed a gallon of nasty lake water. YUCK!

I need to practice open water swimming and sighting. I am all over the place when I don't have a stripe on the bottom of the pool to follow!

Wet feet and socks are a tough combination, but I gotta have my socks!

nothing really

I had a good bike, I wanted to average at least 17 mph, and I did, so I did good for me. I do realize, however, that this is the area that I need my biggest improvement right now. Even though I did good for me, I was pretty far behind the 9the place person in my AG on the bike. Like 8 min behind the 9th place girl. That stinks! I know I'll improve. I think I need to invest in some clip on aerobars...

I need to strengthen my legs so I can push bigger gears on the bike for longer periods of time.

Good transition, took time to wipe my face and put my hat on.

Nothing really.

The run starts off with an incline. That pushed my HR up so I had to take a couple of walk breaks to bring my HR down, which it did and allowed me to pick up the pace the rest of the time. Paced myself with a man, and when we had about a mile and a half left I told him to have a strong finish and to come on, so we ran the rest of the way together, picking up the pace a pretty good bit. We caught and passed about 6-7 people doing this. I was giving it all I had and then I saw the hill at the finish, the race director has a very interesting sense of humor. I about died there at the finish, but was very pleased to have had a PR for the 10K. I do wish I had pushed harder during the middle portion of the race, but I'm not sure how much that would have helped me because it may have left me with less gass in the tank for that final push. My run has come a long way. My pace calculated to be just under 10 min miles. Jun 4th of last year I ran a mary at a pace of 14:59, so I've come a long way since then! (I was especially pleased to pass a guy who ran in that marathon with me and had a finishing time then of several HOURS faster than me. To pass him and ultimately beat him by almost 11 min total just tickles me to death! Just because it's such an indication of how far I've come!

Nothing!

Ate a cookie, my blood sugar dropped there at the end.


My ability level!


They needed more lifeguards and the extra sighting buoys would have been nice, but other than that no complaints. It was pretty dang hot, but I tolerated it ok.

LOVED meeting DeCracker! Sooper nice guy- hope to hange out with him more at the SC Half. Wanted to get a picture with him and Barqhead (who finished 2nd in our AG after having to swim extra to get around a missed buoy!) We need to have a plan next time for meeting up!