Title 9 Women Only Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

not my worst swim at all; the start was kind of a kick-fest but once everyone spread out it was fine. my breathing was good. Did freestyle the entire time. Why am I so SLOW in OWS's?? I can do a 100 in 2:15 in the pool. sigh.

I guess I need to practice open water swims.

T1 was good. I am sticking with no bike gloves. Also I didnt rinse off my feet - they were already dry, so I just wiped off any dirt and threw my socks on. ( I am NOT ready to go sockless!!)

Good ride; only got passed by a few people. Rolling hills.

I need to do hills. 'The only way to get better at hills is to DO HILLS'

A guy racked my bike for me! I told him it felt like IMLP. LOL. but unfortunately the bike ended up falling on my next door neigbors' stuff, which really sucked because that was LISA's spot. SORRY Lisa! :(
Overall a fine tranny.

Don't trust others to rack my bike!!

GRR! I started out fine; shuffled up the hill directly out of the trans area -so was pleased with that. Kept a good pace thru mile 2, I thought, based on RPE. (my garmin battery was dead). Totally ran out of gas at the beginning of mile 3- I felt like my tank was empty. I walked up the hill after gulping a cup of water, (woulda taken gatorade but felt a little nauseous) then ran the rest of the way to the finish line. Since I ended up with 12-min miles with the walk, I think I might have gone out too fast and flamed out. oh well.

I just need to stick with my running training. I'm definitely getting better but still have a lot of work to do!

Found Lisa and her parents - and ate some food, drank some gatorade.


fitness level and weight.


The event started late I think because of the cleanup involved with the tropical storm - so no worries there. I am so glad the RD didn't cancel the race, it was a PeRFECT day! Great race, well-run, I'd totally do this one again. Am also glad they put the newbies at the last waves too; that helped to keep the field safe for the more experienced racers. Was a great race for first-timers, I'd encourage any newbies to do this one!