Columbia Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Was not expecting it to be this cold. The start was crazy, I seemed to have a harder time with this swim than IronGirl. People kept running into me and I kept hitting others. I wanted to do the swim in 30 to try to meet my goals.

Train more and do drills.

Oh man, coming out of the water I thought I was going to faint. I took my time walking while everyone else was running up the hill about half way through I was able to run.

Get used to getting my legs underneath me.

I almost didn't even to this race considering I have been on the road only a couple of times this year and I haven't even gone 25 miles. So, I am just amazed I survived this and I had so much fun.

My only other tri in August I averaged 15.9 so I am just happy that I wasn't to far off with little training.

I think I could of made it faster. My feet were numb and had to get the shoe feel right and had to make a quick pit stop.

This is were it went downhill. I was on target to get 3:15. I started to run and my front right leg cramped up this did not let up til around mile 4 and by that point the hills were just killing me. Part of this was mental just looking at these hills I just couldn't. I thought I would have been able to least get around 60 minutes for the run not much more since this is what I have been doing more of.

Train on more hills.

I actually ran into a work buddy who came out to see me, it was perfect as I was coming down gatorade hill I saw him. Could not have planned that better. It made my day that he came since P couldn't be there. After I finished I walked back to meet up with him. We got my gear together and went out to lunch. Since I was one of the later ones I had no idea were the food and such was. Who knew it would be on top of the hill. Not really organized about that.


I have been sick off and on for the past couple of months, and recently got a new job that has not helped with my training.


Before I completed Columbia I didn't know if I would ever want to do this again since it is so early and my bike training seems to be lacking in the beginning of the season. I hate to ride indoors. But now I might reconsider since this was a great time for me. It's getting me mentally ready for my next race. While I'm disappointed in my time I am glad I finished and felt great doing it.