So this past weekend I did my first triathlon with my friend Sarah from work and it was amazing. I had so much fun testing myself to see how far you can push yourself. To start the morning off Ted and Roxy came with me early in the morning at 5:30am and gave up sleeping in on their saturady morning to head to the race start. They were there to cheer me on through each event. Roxy also had some spectators herself, which consisted of a few children! We got there and it was windy and cold for a June morning in Utah. After I set up my bike and got my race packet we headed over to the pool shivering. Thank goodness the pool was heated. As we jumped in to start the race is started to spinkle rain. I jmped in the pool to do the 300m swim around the 7 minute mark crowd but I should have gone a little bit before that time as I wanted to pass like4 people as soon as I got in. Aparently I didn't know I'm a pretty fast swimmer. Ted says its from all his coaching skills he gave me on how to make my stroke better. I will admit I think it helped a lot training with his tips. Next year I think he should do one with me because he could fly through the swim and bike. So I ended getting out of the pool at 6minutes 30 seconds. I was pretty impressed as that was faster than any other training time I had. When I got back out to transition I was happy to see over half the bikes still there awaiting riders. I thought oh good I won't be last. (That was probably my biggest fear)
Next was the bike. I am terribly slow through the transition zones but I guess that will come with practise. I was too stressed to make sure I had everything I needed before taking off. The bike was extremely hilly and measured 12 miles total. Em's bike that she let me borrow saved me life. It was so easy to go up the hills with it instead of my heavy moutain bike. (Although I still ingested a few flys, just a little protein right!) I was just happy to get back to the transition zone without having fallen off the bike or gotten a flat tire. I started the run around 1:01 and ran the 5K trail in 28minutes which I was also pleased with as that was faster than my training time too. So my total time was 1:29minutes. I was just happy I did it in less than 2 hours.
Well it was a fun day and I'm glad I was able to do it with my friend Sarah. We will have to do another one together soon so I can try to improve my time now that I know what I'm doing, sort of. Hopefully I can convince my husband to do one with me!!!!
