This is the third consecutive year I’ve participated in the Lake Pflugerville Triathlon, and it’ll be one of the last I give up when I’m too old to race. I enjoyed the swim, I loved the bike, and I gutted out the run. The numbers in the table don’t lie, but they certainly don’t tell the whole story.
Swim T1 Bike T2 Run Total
2008 24:42.8 3:22 59:30.2 1:23 44:20 2:13:19
2009 23:04 3:37 1:14:03 INC 47:03 2:27:48
2010 19:09 3:08 1:02:02 4:41 45:24 2:14:25
In 2008, three family members did the race with me and provided great motivation to do as well as I could. I had also kept up with steady training. Last year, I had all kinds of minor problems with my equipment, though my teammates cheered like crazy and pulled me along. This year, with nowhere enough training, I still lost only 1:06 off my PR for this race.
After a good swim, good T1, and pretty good bike, I felt the fatigue set in during T2 and on the treeless run. I had to walk/run the whole hot course. After I finished, I had to sit in the shade and drink a bottle of cool water before I could get up and do anything. When I got home, I had to take a nap, and I’m heading to bed early tonight.
And yet I’m pleased to have won second place in my age group (there were two of us). I’m thrilled that I wasn’t the last person out of the water, the last person off the bike, or the last person to finish the run. About a dozen people took longer than I did for the race, and they were all much younger.
I’ll probably need to rehash this race over the next couple of days before I get my head around what went well and what didn’t. It’s pretty important to figure things out so I can improve next time.
Training log: Swim – 500 meters. Bike – 14 miles. Run – 3.1 miles.
Motivation log: Good practice for toughness training.
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