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First Tri of the season - DONE!

So proud of DH for doing his very first - Smithfield,VA sprint.  It was nice weather, the winds were gusting up to 18 mph and mostly headwinds so that made it challenging.  I'm pretty happy with the bike, though I wish I was faster, I gave it everything I had and only more training will make me faster. The pool swim wasn't the best, I got passed twice...but I really didn't practice enough in the two weeks leading up to it. 

The run was my worst, ever, for a sprint tri.  40 min. for 5k.  I didn't feel too bad coming off the bike, not too stiff, I walked my bike in because of the mud. Transitioned well, but after I started the run, my shins felt so swollen and stiff that I walked.  I kept trying to run but couldn't go more than a few steps without pain so I switched back to walking.  Just after the one mile mark I started loosening up some and was able to run more and walk less....overall not happy with the run.

DH beat me by about 4 min. total - I beat him in the swim and I really hoped I would beat him on the bike.  He caught me on the bike but not until the dismount line, overall his time was better.  Knew he'd crush me on the run so that was no surprise, of course he is like a foot taller than me

Fun overall and felt great after actually!

Race report:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=483574

Hope you're all having a good weekend!

Sounds like a great race and how awesome that you and your husband will be able to enjoy the sport together!!

Your times look really good to me!! As far as the run, sometimes it is just wise to slow down and listen to what your body is asking for instead of pushing through and having to deal with an injury for the rest of the season. Your overall time was very good!!

Congratulations!!

Right now you're feeling down from the race not going the way you hoped, but keep on going, you've come too far now and I know you can do it!

That is awesome about the aero bars, I can't even fathom attempting that. Get back in the saddle and keep TRI-ing!

Seriously impressive! My training always falls apart on vacation so I'm in awe, way to go!

That was great to stay with your training on vacation! Way to go!!

I'm not too far form Gulf Shores and most of our friends'beach' there but we prefer Navarre. My Husband & I both lived in Pensacola (him Pace) in the past and  husband and son(s) love to fish off the pier in Navarre. 

Great week of training for me even if I am slow as a turtle (at all three)- I am also improving in all three sports.

Interesting bike yesterday- but chased by THREE bulldogs (while the owner just stood there!!). Thank goodness I found some reserves and out road them.I found a different route home and smiled all the way there

On a sad note a member  of my youngest son's football team was killed on the way to school Thursday in a car accident. We are a small town and he goes to a very small school were everyone knows everyone pretty well. This guy was an outstanding athlete (one of those that gave 150% every time) and all around great guy. Just about to graduate. Its just been devastating  

Sorry to hear your race went so poorly.  Tough to end a season on that.  I'm sure you'll turn it around, plenty of time to put together a great race in November.

Alright, motivation to start the week off.  And for Jax and I looking forward to race weekend.  How bad do you want it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ

I'm going to save that as an mp3 and listen it as I workout.  Makes me want to race!  The text of the speech is below:

There was a young man, who wanted to make a lot of money. And so, he went to this guru. He told the guru “I wanna be at the same level as you on”. And so the guru said, “If you want to be at the same level I’m on, I’ll meet you tomorrow at the beach”.
So the young man got there at 4am, he’s all ready ready to rock and roll, got on a suit (he should’ve wore shorts). The old man grabbed his hands and said “How bad do you want to be successful?”. He said “Real bad”.
The guru said “Walk on out into the water”. So he walks out into the water…(Watch This). And when he walks out into the water, it goes waist deep. And he was like “This guy’s crazy” and went “Hey, I got you to teach me how to make money, but you are teaching me how to swim. I didn’t ask to be a lifeguard. I want to make money!”
He went “Come out a little further” and the young man walked out a little further where the water is deeper. And he was like “This old man is crazy…he makin’ money but he crazy”. The old man said “Come out a little further” and he went a little further. The water was right at his mouth…
The young man went “I don’t want to proceed anymore” and the old man said “I thought you want to be successful!” And the young man said “I do!” And the old man went “Then, walk a little further”.
The young man did, the he dropped his head in the water and the old man held him down, he had him held down, just when the young man was about to pass out, he raised him up.
He said, “When you were under water what did you want to do?”
Young man said, “I wanted to breathe.”
He told the guy “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful”.
If you ever have an asthma attack before, you’re short of breath, you’re wheezing. The only thing you are trying to do, is get some air. You don’t care about no basketball game, you don’t care what’s on the TV, you don’t care about the parties… The only thing you care about when you are trying to breathe, is to get some fresh air. That’s it. And when you get to the point when all you want to do is to be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.
Most of you said that you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don’t want it badder than you want to party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep! Some of you loves sleep more than they love success.
And I am here to tell you today: If you are wanting to be successful, you have to be willing to give up sleep.
You gotta be willing to work on having 3 hours or 2 hours of sleep. If you really want to be successful, somedays you might even have to stay up 3 days in a row. Because if you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful. You gotta want to be successful so bad, that you forget to eat.
That’s how bad you gotta want it.
-Eric Thomas, "Hip Hop Preacher"

ETA: I in no way advocate forgetting to eat (eating is very important when training), or not sleeping (sleeping is also very important).

Hey everyone!

Sorry I've meen MIA for the past week, life just got in the way. I will read through the posts today and the stats will be done on Wednesday.

Happy training!

Yes i agree with ^^^ "The only bad workout is the one you did not do" one of the best things about deciding to do triathlon for me is previously I had had a very hard time with consistently doing any workouts - but knowing i am committed to race I make sure to get my workout in even if I kept my 8 mo old grandson & he kept me up all night or I have a dozen other things going on-  before there was enough excuses not to work out to keep them to once or twice a week- now I just get my training in!!

And I do not reply to every post but reading about how some of you structure your runs or things like not overdoing it though the swim- I'm taking all of this in and learning!!!