Cinco Ranch Triathlon - Triathlon

The swim was pretty uneventful. The course was a little strange shaped. I navigated fairly well. There was one guy who I continuously had problems with. He would sprint out ahead of me and then would breaststroke to catch his breath. Every time he would breaststroke I would catch and run into him and then he would sprint off again. The water was too shallow on the side for me to really try to pass him plus I didn't want to use that energy. I just sat back, swam easy and did not push at all.

Kick the guy in the head and give him a lesson on pacing his self so he didn't keep getting into my way!

Put on my shoes in transition, no socks. No problems here at all.

Nada

Just past the mount line I hopped on looked down to clip in and almost died. Goofball in front of me cut right in front of me and stopped and I just about mowed right over him. Came out of transition and got comfortable and took a Gu in the first mile. Just sat back and rode comfortable not trying to push anything. The first half hour or so my stomach was really upset and I really wanted to throw up but couldn't. Eventually it calmed down and felt a little better. We train on these roads so it was nice being on some home turf. I got passed quite a bit and passed some as well. Saw some small packs of 2 or 3 drafting and then saw one pack of about 12 in paceline form. Just let them keep on going, if they want to cheat so be it. Around mile 13ish a rider went off the shoulder and down about 20 yards ahead of me. He looked ok so I kept going. About a mile later there was another rider down and had some others around him helping so I kept going there too.

Maybe push a little harder but I really was not trained. Overall I think it went well.

The dismount line was closer than I thought so I only got one foot out in time. Ran in with one bare foot and one shoe. I stopped and took the extra time to put socks on for the run here.

Learn to run without socks.

Bad. Just plain bad. I had the worst abdominal cramp going on that I have ever felt in a run before. Legs were tight for the first mile but the cramping was terrible. Ran slow to the mile 1 aid station and got some water. Continued running slow and walked about 30 seconds in between there and the turn around. Got some more water at the turn around and was feeling a little better. After the mile 2 aid station and more water I was just thankful to be almost done. Closer to the finish it really seemed to drag having to run around the lake when I thought the finish was closer. Gutted it out for a pathetic sprint to the finish when I got close.

I think I might have been dehydrated or the cramp could have been a result of the big cheeseburger I had the night before. This is the slowest 3 mile run I have ever had.

Drank some water and found Kylie and some other friends I didn't even know were going to be there. Got bike out of transition and headed home. Didn't stick around long.


Complete. Lack. Of. Training.


Personally I preferred last years course to this one. It seemed like there were too many participants in too small of an area. Also, after finishing there were tons of people cleaning out their transition area so I went in a did the same not knowing that there were still competitors coming through. They never should have let us into transition when there were still cyclists on the course! I will probably do it again next year but it is questionable.