This was a terrible swim for me.As soon as i got in the water, i lost my breath and could not get it back for the first 200 meters. I finally was able to get a few strokes but could never get a rhythm. I almost quit cuz it was sucking so much. But i told myself to get through the swim and it will be better.

Well i went into this race untrained in the water. I havent swam since my last race last year.So definitley getting in the pool would help.

This transistion was sucky too since you had to run up a hill and i thought i would fall any second. Then you have to run down the hill with your bike in your bike shoes, That was not good either. ANyway, i managed without injury but was unable to get any advantage here.

This was the better of three events, even though it wasnt stellar either. I felt ok, but just felt like i never could get enough speed and settle into a rhythm.

Ride my tri bike. And train more on the bike.

this was fine i guess, but running up the hill in bike shoes was worse than down the hill i think.

take off bike shoes to run up the hill.

This run is hilly. And this pace is embarrassingly slow for a 5k. However, i have not been doing any brick workouts since coming off marathon training, so that would explain the lack of pop in my legs. But the run wasnt too hot. I kept seeing other Athenas pass me but i just couldnt make myself run faster to catch up.

Train more off the bike and push myself harder

I came into this race knowing i wasnt trained for tris quite yet since i was so focused on run training with teh marathon. I used this race as a good test of where i am. I know what i need to work on.
I missed third place athena by 30 seconds, so i will definitley push harder in the next race.


This was a well organized race. I was surprised at how few participants there were though. It is fairll close to home and i love the race being on a saturday.