Philadelphia Women's Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I hate swimming with a wetsuit. I don't feel comfortable with it (wierd with my scuba backround) and if the water is even remotely warm, I'm not using it again. I was in wave 7 of 9 and came out ok. I passed a bunch in wave 6 and was only a minute or so behind my swim buddy.

Ditch the wetsuit.

My fears almost came true. My suit got stuck on my timing chip and I almost fell over with the rack of bikes... I went sockless too, turned out not to be an issue. I forgot my GU though, and was kinda annoyed.

Make sure my timing chip is UNDER the wetsuit that I don't plan to wear again.

I am happy with my bike leg. I was one of few on a tri bike so it felt nice to finally pass people on the bike. Even though the ones I passed were on mountain bikes, touring bikes, road bikes. At one point there were 3 of us riding together sort of leap-frogging (BUT NOT DRAFTING)and a ref rode past and gave me "the eye". I moved over very quickly so as to not give the slightest impression that we were working together. For me, an average speed of 18.9 (19.2 by my computer) is good by me. I may have pushed it a bit hard too hard though.

Watch my HR closer to make sure I don't over-exert. Also I ran out of liquid too early and didn't have a drink to finish up my ride. By the time I hit T2, I was totally parched.

OK, broke the cardinal rule of racing and tried something new today. I felt good and fast so I decided to run sockless. I've never done it before, ever. Why I decided to try it today, I don't know...

Nothing

About 1/2 mile out of transition I was cursing myself for skipping socks. I could feel the blisters starting. On top of that, my legs felt like lead and I was starting to cramp up. It was hot, I was angry and I did alot of walking. Entirely too much for a 5K. Man, my feet were killing me. obviously my nutrition plan was off too because I couldn't cool down even with the water and HEED on the course. I took a GU, and that almost made it worse with my gummy mouth. I can honestly say that was the longest and most unpleasant 5K I have ever run.

Wear socks, jackass. Pack extra enduralites for hot days and make a spare nutrition bottle in case things go wrong???

Met up with the family and drank lots of water, soda, and water ice.


My run. That's nothing new... I also think if I had better nutrition on the bike I may have set myself up better. Oh, and I promise never to go sockless again.


You got a nice finishers medal and cheesy TYR gear bag. They had french toast, soda, water ice and all the normal food goodies afterward. The only thing I didn't like was that they could have combined the waves some so that the last wave wasn't 45 minutes after the first. I started 35 minutes after the first whistle.