1500m swim, 24 mile bike, 6.2 mile run
Olympic Distance Triathlon
My time: 3:04:47
This race only turned out to be 200 people! I thought it was going to be closer to 1,000. Wow. So my initial thought was "I am just going to try to finish this race and not worry about my time". As soon as I saw that my age group was really small that thinking went straight out the window. I clearly had to try to place. This race was at the same location as the Sweet and Twisted Tri a month earlier.
The 1500m Swim: The lake was still incredibly low despite all the rain we had. The swim course was 2 loops and very near the shore line. It didn't go out and back it just stayed along the "coast". Everything was going well until I was on the last leg of my first lap and saw people swimming to the shore and then running in ankle deep water. First thing that popped in my head: omg what is in the water?!?! I was so scared at first. I yelled up to the spectators to find out what was going on. The response: "Its legal to run in the water as long as your feet are in the water". @%*(#$% $%*Q*$% *%QW*#%*. Are you kidding me? I don't care if its legal or not. That is CHEATING. As soon as I saw that happening - and I mean it was about 80-90% of the people, I knew I had no chance of placing. Since I consider myself a respectable person and athlete there was no way I was "cheating". I stayed in the water and you know me, I hated every minute of it. But if I am going to say I did an olympic distance triathlon, by all means, I am swimming the swim, not running the swim. My blood is starting to boil just thinking about it and that was a month ago lol.
The Dash: Yet again another dash due to the lake being incredibly low. This time I ran it in tennis shoes and that was much better than flip flops. Don't get me wrong... it was still uphill and on rocks. Horray drought.
T1: Wow, now I have started texting during transitions. No wonder my time isn't great
The 24 mile Bike: It was 4 laps, so it was very spectator friendly. I had no spectators but thats okay. It was very hilly as I knew it would be. My speed was 1mph faster than it was at Sweet and Twisted so maybe there is something to clips after all :)
T2: Dreading the run with lead legs.
The 6.2 mile trail Run: My goal was to have under a 10 min/mile pace. I felt good and I passed a lot of people and only 1 passed me. I ended up with an 8:59 pace and I was THRILLED about that. That was my fastest 10k pace by far. The run was fantastic and felt really really good.
My final time was 3:04:47. My goal was 3:30 so I blew that out of the water.
I felt so good after this race that I decided I was going to sign up for the Half Ironman.
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