Mountain Man Triathlon - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

Wow the swim was a bit rough! Not wearing a wetsuit meant a bit cold on top of not having the oxygen I'm used to. Had to do breaststroke until I hit the first buoy and was finally able to get into a freestyle groove. Goggles fogged up a lot and sighting wasn't great. Definitely not the swim performance I was hoping for, but since I hadn't trained a lot for the swim it was overall not a surprising performance.

Train more! Treat goggles prior to swim to avoid fogging.

Not having a wetsuit meant I had one of the fastest T1 transition times! Gained a place in T1. Hubby caught a picture of me smiling as I was running the bike so I was feeling good, and happy to be done with the swim!

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As a new biker I had set high hopes for beating a 1hr 30min bike time, which was pushing the envelope since I hadn't been able to maintain that pace in training. I beat that goal by over a minute! Got passed a lot more than I passed people on the bike, and my only thought was "wow, did I really beat all these people out of the water?" :) Gave props to the guy doing the ride in his flip flops! Only issue was about 1/2 way through the ride I realized I had to use the little girls room, and wrestled with "do I stop drinking?". Decided to keep drinking to avoid getting dehydrated on the run.

Make sure bladder is tooootally empty before starting race!

Got my socks and shoes on and was off! Port-o-loos were a bit out of the way so I just took off on the run!

Thankfully there was a port-a-loo on the run, though there was someone in front of me so this cost me a bit of time. I had heard about this hill from others and found a comporable hill (according to mapmyrun) near me and had been running it 2x/week for the previous 5 or so weeks. Turns out the hill I had been training had a part that was waaaay steeper than the race, so this hill felt like cake! I had been hoping to beat 1 hour for the run, which I thought was pushing it since it was a faster pace than I had been hill training at, and I totally conquered that time! The run felt just great.
Oh! And I ran with my daughters sippy cup and blasted by every aid station :) Passed lots of people on the run! Crossing the finishing line felt amazing, I still can feel what that smile felt like splitting my face.

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Got in the car and drove to Utah and Idaho! This race was the pre-quel to a two-week road trip.


Great first triathlon that I really trained for! Signed up in May for this distance which was totally beyond my ability, and following the training schedule here on BT totally prepared me. I was hoping to have a 3:15 race time and beat that goal by 5 minutes! Can't wait to do this again next year, a better swimmer, biker and runner!