It was a mass start with both the Formula 1 racers and the Super Sprint going off at the same time. Tried to maintain the best pace possible without going over the edge too much. Most likely went beyond my LT on the hills, didn't seem to hurt too much though.

Train more. At this point I haven't done any planned workouts since the end of August/early September. My fitness level is lower than it was earlier in the season. The training I have done in between all the other crazy things going on has been sporadic.

Put shoes on in Transition as the ground was wet. Jogged with the bike out of transition and got several pedal strokes in to get some speed before I actually clipped in.

Not much I could do different here.

This is a difficult course, rolling hills through out, shifting up and down. I'm not nearly in the condition needed to really push hard on this course. I tried not to kill my legs and spun at a 95-100 up most of the hills, on the down hills I would get up some speed and coast some to save energy. My bike time was 35:34 in the spring, with T1 and T2 included, that puts this time around at 36:39, a minute slower, not too bad.

More time in the saddle.

Jogged through transition, put the bike on the rack, changed out shoes, took helmet off. Basically very smooth. Julie (Marmamommy) said 'Good Run' or something, I new I was in touble as she was in T2 at the same time as me. In the back of my head I wondered how bad my bike time really was.

Nothing.

Legs seemed to be tired and didn't want to turn over like I would want them too. One of the RIT students passed me with about 3/4 to a 1/2 mile remaining in the race, he ended up finishing about 1:20 in front of me. Saw one of the other two when I had about a 1/3 of a mile left so he was well behind me, the other student I never saw and he was about 1:00 behind me.

More consistent and planned training would help.

Walked around, talked to some folks, drank a bottle of water.


Lack of training.


Since my injury this summer it has been really difficult to get alot of motivation to train. I wasn't able to do the workouts I would have like and thus skipped the Finger Lakes Triathlon. I did this race thinking it would motivate me to do more, however, it didn't, with the changing weather, less and less sunshine and the new school year starting it has been too busy and too messy to do much of the workouts I would normally be doing. In the future, I hope to be able to handle the bad things, ie. Injuries, better and to work just as hard after the injury as I did before or would have if it hadn't have happened. In the spring my first 2 mile run was 15:20, a minute faster than this time around. The second run in the spring was only 1 mile, though I did that in 8:06, thus I lost a couple of minutes on the second run. This shows how much I've lost fitness-wise as the weather was similiar for both races.