Galen: I finally did a Tri! I've been saying I would for several years and now I have. Woot! I was aiming just to finish, didn't push for speed at all (I came in at 2 hours and 9 min and placed 86th out of 110 women). Something I want to be more prepared for next time around: the swim. I'm not afraid of open water; have done lots of swimming in lakes etc and I'd been swimming the distance at the gym; a slow and steady breaststroke... but when the announcer said "GO!!!" and everyone took off with their speed kickin' freestyle strokes, I tried to keep up... and within 5 min I was in serious oxygen deprived trouble, Heart pounding out of control, unable to catch my breath, and the icky realization that there was 18 feet of murky water between me and the bottom. So I doggy paddled for a bit while I caught my breath, reconciled myself to being the slowest swimmer in the lake, found my slow steady breaststroke rhythm... and finished the swim. Whew! Then the bike, then the run. Slow and steady. An interesting thing about this Tri, not only do they write your race numbers on your arms and legs, they also write your age on the back of your right calf, so as you're biking and running along you know when that person who just blew by you is twice your age. Ha!Goal for my next tri: be a much stronger swimmer, I gotta make that jump from breaststroke to freestyle. ASAP.
Abel: Since this was my 2nd triathlon (did the st george tri a few years back), I now have something to compare this against. My training was much less on this one and therefore my expectations were as well. I usually would tell myself “as long as I finish, I’ll be happy”, but this time I really meant it. Less was better as I didn’t want to take a backward step in rehabbing my left knee. So I took a casual approach and it felt nice. I definitely wasn’t exhausted at the end. I even ran for about 1/3 of the way. I came away feeling much less drained than my last one.More pictures are posted on facebook and flickr.
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i think the writing on the body is the coolest too :p look forward to hearing about your next tri
Congrats on your first tri-I am sure you are hooked now!
Yes, get some swim lessons for learning the crawl and you will be much more efficient and faster on the swim.
The lake was pretty clean this year-usually people come out with green algae on them and there have been dead fish and cockroaches to swim through.
I think I saw dog poop tho! ewww! (mouth CLOSED while swimming!!)
thanks ginger :)
Fe-lady too (hehe, LOVE the name), Yep, I'm hooked. and totally humbled to have an iron woman seeing my very humble beginning! thanks for stopping by.
(your blogs are an inspiration to me)
-galen
P.S. dog poop, dead fish and cockroaches... YUCK! was trying not to think about that... x_x
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