Not a bad swim overall considering I have not trained at all for the swim. The only times I have swum since the Cayuga race in August was in the lake in the Poconos and the Crystal Lake tri.

I guess I'll have to train for it? I don't know what to do about my sighting issues when there are multiple orange buoys in your line of vision.

I really didn'ty try to rush this so I shouldn't be surprised at the time. I got the wetsuit off much better than I did at Cayuga but had a hard time getting my short on, being all wet. I also couldn't decide which shirt to wear (long or short) since it was only in the mid 50's. I went with the short though and was happy later on.

Move my butt along.

I had a really hard time getting myself going. I just couldn't get my legs to kick in. I also thought this was the most scared I have EVER been on a bike, and in a race no less. The bike essentially starts on a part of the bike path which is nice an smooth. But I had PACKS of people whizzing by me and I was just terrified. The groups came through so large and fast that I almost got knocked off several times and into the trees along the path. Being on the bike path, there were no race officials on their motocycles for this part of the bike. Once we got off the path and onto the road I thought it would be a little better but the road was VERY rough for a lot of it. It would have been ok if I could ride in the road and off the shoulder a little more but there was SO much traffic! And they were SO not considerate. There were two interesections where the traffic was backed up and I had a hard time navigating past the cars on the shoulder. At one of the intersections, I actually had to STOP for the cars to keep going through the intersection.

This I just don't know... My legs had nothing from the get go. Maybe it was a nutrition issue. I put too much gatorade in my gatorage/water mix and it was making me sick. Definitely more water next time.

Not much to say... I was just trying to get my hair up and psych myself up for an hour of pure torture.

Kick myself in the ass harder?

I knew this was going to be hell since I have not trained much. After Cayuga, I took it easy on the running trying to get my foot to heal. And in the process lost a lot of motivation. I actually enjoyed the course a lot more than I thought I would. I basically walk/jogged up the hills and jogged the downhills. It got me there in the end.

TRAIN!!!

Walked around ticked off that Paul and Kevin took the kids home before either of us even crossed the finish line. Hung around in the sun waiting for the raffle to see if Jill won anything this year.


Lack of training.


This really is a good race (despite my issues with the bike course). I just had no motivation going into the race, knowing I was severly undertrained. I went into this with an "I am participating, not racing" mentality and actually enjoyed myself without the pressure of wanting a certain time, etc.