Old College Tri - TriathlonSprint

I had put down 5 min and was worried that I'd embarrass myself. After the first 50 I had nearly caught the lady in front of me. the 2nd 50 I actually did great on drafting[it's so much easier on pool swims] but after the 2nd 50 I decided to pass her at the wall. I was worried that if I caught up to her that quickly she would slow down if I drafted the whole way. Things went very well until the end. the 2nd to last lap I could see Karen by the side of the pool so I would attempt to yell her name.. karen, breath, karen, breath, but after a few times I was getting out of breath, at the last wall I could see someone was gaining on me so I let him pass me at the wall and did a great job drafting all the way to the ladder.. which made me glad that I passed that lady earily

really nothing,,

my HR for transition is 150?? that was higher than the swim.. I didn't think I really ran hard to the bike and I wanted to take an extra 45-60 extra to let my HR come down since I was thinking of doing a LT test on the bike part. Once I got to the line I didnt' do a great job of getting up on the bike, and I didn't get enough speed up before getting in my shoes..not bad but I've done much better

work on getting on the bike from the right side i usually do it from the left and that actually threw me a bit

I know I was responsible for a few penalty's on people's 1stloop.. I was on my 2nd loop and on the back side of the loop I came up to a cluster of people just riding on the left,middle and right so I was weaving through all of them and heard a bike behind me and notice the officials looking/writing at the people just passed.. Bonnie caught up to me close to the end and said dont let a girl beat you or something like that so I was able to push a bit more and pass her before finishing..
This was actually a great bike leg for me, I took it easy in the beginning and then went hard.. I was amazed that i wasn't passed like I usually get on the bike and I passed way more people,, I think with the time trail start all those people were already ahead of me

try to push harder that last lap,,

great flying dismount for me, easy jog right to the rack just had issue's getting my left shoe on so I had to untie it and put it on the way normal people do. my feet were really cold and a bit numb when I started running out of T2

get warmer feet

I didn't' have that rubbery feeling in my legs just cold numb feet, which is odd since I've done all of one brick this year,, the other odd thing is all my runs have been in Z1 at around 12 min mile pace. there were no mile markers and I didn't really look at my HR for the run.. I just concentrated on good form, and a higher cadence than I usually do and all of a sudden the run was just about over.. I thought we ended down the sidewalk but we looped around a grass trail that through me off since I couldn't figure out where we would turn around at so I didn't' pick up the pace enough at the end..
My HR for the run was a 144 avg which is strange since that's just a Z2 run for me,, I should have really pushed harder, but it was a odd run in that i wasn't out of breath, my legs weren't' that tired, they just didn't' want to move faster so I guess I need speed work so they understand what a faster pace is

Run more, get faster feet

joked around with karen and jonny, Saw Jen who came out to cheer a family member. talked with Bonny, Steve and Marcy a bit, had a couple of pancakes. I got to see the lady finish whose family had put up quite a few motivation picture for her on the bike course,, which is quite cool


weighing 230 lbs, not allowing to ride a motorcycle on the bike part


This was a great race and I really liked the bike course.. just having pancakes at the end is enough for me.. while I joke about being jaded I think it's so cool that this family had pictures of the young daughter cheering on her mom all over the bike course..Considering the only people I see at a race are BT people since my friends are either sleeping, drinking or at church on the weekend I'll never have someone out there cheering me on. So while I joked about it a bit it's more that I'm envious. Plus You never know what is going on in people's lives and while to me this was just a fun morning workout to others it is so much more. I just need to remember that sometimes.