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Comments: Great swim. Positioned myself at the back as I usually do, I'm a confident swimmer but I'm slow. Should have remembered this was a novice women's race and gone to the front - I spent the first 100m swimming past everyone! It was like a washing machine but I'm used to that. Navigation was spot-on, swam strong, breathed well, felt great, exited strong. Mum had come over to tend to Sybil, and Sef had brought Jacob down to watch me, I high-fived him on the way out of the water! What would you do differently?: Nothing.  Transition 1
Comments: The usual. What would you do differently?: Nothing.  Bike
Comments: Time includes T1 & T2. One loop out and back. Dry road, some wind, a few undulating hills. Rode well and passed lots of girls - but there were a lot of non-roadbikes out there! Used aero a lot. Drank some Gatorade but shouldn't have bothered because it was such a short race and it just added to the weight of the undigested breakfast sloshing around in my stomach. What would you do differently?: Nothing. Transition 2
Comments: All good except I ran along the wrong set of racks - had to double back to find my spot! Waved to Sef & Jacob. What would you do differently?: Pay more attention! :)  Run
Comments: So this is where my cold & lack of adequate training caught up with me, had no energy, really struggled, it was starting to get hot and my breakfast was sloshing around, it wasn't fun but of course I finished :) What would you do differently?: Eat breakfast earlier. Can't do much about the children & illness interupting my training regime!!! :) Post race
Warm down: Gave Jacob a big kiss in the finishing chute. Drank some electrolyte water on offer but didn't need the fruit on offer (still digesting breakfast LOL). Found Sef & Jacob. Chatted to a friend waiting for transition to open. Got my bike and went home to relieve my mum and feed my daughter! :) What limited your ability to perform faster: Recent pregnancy, raising baby from said pregnancy, illness :) Event comments: I was just really glad to be out there :) Last updated: 2013-01-16 12:00 AM
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 2013-03-07 12:52 AM |
Master  1548    Perth, Australia |  Subject: Sunsmart Women's Triathlon |
| 2013-03-07 11:48 AM in reply to: #4649615 |
Master 4118  Toronto Bronze member | Subject: RE: Sunsmart Women's Triathlon Magda! Awesome job! You did really well for your first tri in 3 years with the need to be very very flexible now! You rock! |
| 2013-03-13 6:24 AM in reply to: #4649615 |
Veteran 339 Melbourne | Subject: RE: Sunsmart Women's Triathlon Magda!Welcome back!! What a great start to your tri-career part 2!Great job! |
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31C / 88F
Sunny
Overall Rank = 293/557
Age Group = 30-39
Age Group Rank = 96/177
My first triathlon in 2 years! I have a 3 month old baby and an almost 3 year old toddler so I chose a really short distance. I managed to do a decent amount of training until 2 weeks before the event, when my baby stopped sleeping as well and we all got head colds, so there was minimal training in this time. Wasn't really looking fwd to the race because throat was like razor blades in the 2 days leading up to the event and I felt under-prepared.
Registered the day before. Packed the night before. Was pleased my trisuit still fit!!! Decided it was too warm & too short a race to bother with wet suit. Set alarm for 5.30am. Sybil woke at 5.28am needing a feed. Had also wet through her nappy & bed clothes so needed a complete change. Jacob also woke up in a coughing fit and needed to be settled back down. By the time I was done with them both, it was 6.15am and transition closed at 6.45am! Luckily I only live 5-10 mins drive from the venue. I made myself a coffee and PB + honey sandwich (my favourite pre-race meal!) and raced out the door. Parking was a b*tch and I got to transition with minutes to spare, luckily lots of other girls were also running late so it remained open for at least another 20-30 mins!
Racked my bike, stood in line for the toilets which took forever and then only had 25 mins before my wave went off and I realised I hadn't eaten my breakfast yet - oops. Ate it and it sat heavy in my stomach for the rest of the race :(
Swam in the ocean for 5-10 mins before my wave went off. Realised I'd forgotten to get body marked and hoped no one would notice!!! ;)