This is one of my favorite sprint triathlons around. It's at Boerne Lake where I do a lot of my training and it's just an overall fun race. I had high expectations coming into this race having raced it the previous two years. This was the challenge I needed to see if all my training was going to give me the results I wanted.
500m swim: 10:12
I was right on goal with my swim. I usually allow for 2 min/100m and I was only 12 seconds above it! Extremely excited about that! If I am remembering correctly (and this is the problem with not getting my thoughts down right away) they had marked the course differently (like a straight out and back) and I think the wind had picked up by the time the race had started and the markers were being blown around in the water causing some of the swimmers to almost swimming into each other. I had an okay T1 of 1:05.
13 mi bike: 48:44 (16 mph)
I was aiming for at least averaging 17 mph on this course but with the wind picking up that slowed me down a bit. After looking at my previous two attempts at this race, I have improved on the bike portion in each one so overall I'm please with the result. I had an awesome T2 of 0:42!
4.1 mi run: 40:10 (9.47/m)
Again, I am pleased with my run in this race. I managed to stay under a 10 minute pace and I really can't ask for more than that.
Total time: 1:40:55. I only knocked 1 minute off my overall time from the previous year but it was enough to place me 6th out of 18 girls in my age group!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Greater Gator Tri
So this race is an Olympic version of one of my favorite Sprint Tri's, Gator Bait Tri. I was so excited when it was announced at the beginning of the season and had been looking forward to it since the beginning of the season. Of course, I didn't realize it was just two weeks after my half-ironman in Boise.
Going into the race I was super tired. I didn't feel like I had the energy needed to really compete at a level that I wanted to. I decided to just do my best and just finishing would make me happy.
1500m swim: 33:37
Now for a swim of this distance, this was actually a pretty good time for me. No gator sighting thank goodness :) I had a decent T1 of 1:11.
24.5 mi bike: 1:38 (14.9 mph)
This felt like the bike ride that would never end. My legs were pretty much done at the beginning of the ride so I decided just to save most of my strength for the big hill at mile 6 and enjoy the scenery. After I climbed "Gator Bait" hill I cruised to the turn-around. On the way back I picked up the pace a little bit and really enjoyed the downhill that most of the way back to transition is. I had another decent transition with T2 being 0:52.
5.6 mi run: 0:59:14 (10.34/m)
This may be the one thing that stops me from doing the race in the future. The run is through a very rugged landscape and I was not wearing my trail shoes!! Besides the course not being marked extraordinarily well and the grass to be overgrown, I managed to stay on course and not twist an ankle. For being as tired as I was I'm actually not too disappointed with this run. I did have to walk some of the hills but overall I'll take that 10 min pace any day!
My overall time was 3:13:43 (first time to finish last in my age group!) Not fantastic by any means but it was another race under my belt, and I made a profound decision as I was racing: I definitely was not going to race in the month of July!! I was going to give my body a month off to rest and train. Sometimes the hardest races are where you learn the most.....
Going into the race I was super tired. I didn't feel like I had the energy needed to really compete at a level that I wanted to. I decided to just do my best and just finishing would make me happy.
1500m swim: 33:37
Now for a swim of this distance, this was actually a pretty good time for me. No gator sighting thank goodness :) I had a decent T1 of 1:11.
24.5 mi bike: 1:38 (14.9 mph)
This felt like the bike ride that would never end. My legs were pretty much done at the beginning of the ride so I decided just to save most of my strength for the big hill at mile 6 and enjoy the scenery. After I climbed "Gator Bait" hill I cruised to the turn-around. On the way back I picked up the pace a little bit and really enjoyed the downhill that most of the way back to transition is. I had another decent transition with T2 being 0:52.
5.6 mi run: 0:59:14 (10.34/m)
This may be the one thing that stops me from doing the race in the future. The run is through a very rugged landscape and I was not wearing my trail shoes!! Besides the course not being marked extraordinarily well and the grass to be overgrown, I managed to stay on course and not twist an ankle. For being as tired as I was I'm actually not too disappointed with this run. I did have to walk some of the hills but overall I'll take that 10 min pace any day!
My overall time was 3:13:43 (first time to finish last in my age group!) Not fantastic by any means but it was another race under my belt, and I made a profound decision as I was racing: I definitely was not going to race in the month of July!! I was going to give my body a month off to rest and train. Sometimes the hardest races are where you learn the most.....
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