Faith In Action Triathlon/Duathlon - TriathlonSprint

I actually felt OK in the pool even though I have been in a pool about 6 times since I did Columbia last May (as in 2007). I was understandably significantly slower than the last time I did this race. I think I went 6:45 in the pool last time.

Nothing as far as the actual swim goes, except may start slower. Thing is, I didn't feel as though I was going to fast and I didn't realize I had slowed so much by the end.

No idea. Don't have any of my splits yet and I don't know they they did transitions. I was slow since I wasn't planning on racing hard.

I got a new skirt and I work it on the bike. Super comfy. Has buttons for the race number so I put this on in T1.

I had a solid bike. I believe I was only about 1:30 slower than when I did the race 3 years ago and was 11 minutes faster overall. I am very pleased with that because I have done no bike training. As with my swim, I have probably been on the bike perhaps 10 times since last May (2007). I didn't race all out either. When I felt my legs begin to burn, I backed off slightly. Due to my medical issues, I didn't want to overdo it.

Nothing.

I wore a race skirt for the first time. I put in on in T1 so all I had to do was switch shoes. I almost forgot to take off my helmet.

I really backed off on the run because I was afraid of over-heating. I ran the first two miles slowly (carried my gatorade for the first mile), then cranked it up a bit for the third.

I could have run a lot harder but under the circumstances, I chose not to.

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Pregnancy - self-imposed limit on how hard I would race.


I love this race. I have always raced well at it. I was 11 minutes slower this year than I was 3 years ago but I have a good excuse. It has been a trying year for my health (I had mono earlier in the year which had me bed-ridden for almost 2 months).