Wilmington YMCA Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Enjoyed this swim which is probably why the time is so slow (relatively) . For whatever reason, I just didn't push it in the swim. I also got too far to the right, I think, and got out of the main channel current. Oh well, I came out of the water happy and ready to ride. :)

Swim harder and navigate better.

Good transition for me. Of course, I did get lost in transition for a minute and down the wrong row. I also forgot to remove my heel lifts from my shoes before the race so I did waste some time fiddling with that. So, maybe it wasn't such a good transition after all. lol! At least Wade (Nuthouse) was there to cheer me on and keep me moving.

Still need to learn the flying mount.

If there was a pothole on the course, I hit it. lol! Overall, happy with this ride. Had one girl in front of me that drafted the entire race. She would latch on to one person after the other. She got away from me for a while but by the end of the ride, I caught and passed her! Hmph!

Nothing.

Uneventful.

Ha! Ha! Had a really bad stitch for the first mile or so. I was really beating myself up about it too. I was ready to quit triathlon all together. I've spent the entire season watching people run by me out of t2 and I was just sick of it. I had some delusion that this race would be different but...

I finally let out a huge burp around mile 1.5 and was then able to pick up the pace. By mile three, I felt great and was able to pick up the pace a lot! If it had only been a longer run then i may have been able to catch a few of the women that passed me earlier in the run.



Rebuild and improve my running. Got to get the stitches under control and keep the evil negative thoughts out of my head.

Walked around, talked to Wade and Jeff. Rode back to the house, got the kids and came back for the awards.


Me.


Was only 10 seconds slower than last year even though my run was 2 minutes slower. Pretty much made up all that time in transition b/c my swim and bike times were about the same.

Glad the season is over so I can concentrate on getting healthy and improving my running.