I can do it!

Just an easy ten mile ride on my mountain bike with Ben.  Funny how after all these weeks of riding my road bike, suddenly I feel unsafe riding the mountain bike!  :D

Britnee and I ran an easy 5 mile loop this morning.  Both of us are tapering for races this weekend, so we purposely held it back and took walk breaks.  We finished in 51:10.  Afterwards, we did bootcamp.

This morning I climbed a 35 foot rock...and then I went to rehearsals all day!

Today I did resistance work at bootcamp.  Then I went home and slept as much as possible.  I need to get caught up on my ZZZs after so many weeks of sleep deprivation....

I taught yoga for bootcamp this morning...it was nice to get a good stretch in.  Afterwards, Kim, Katie and I did a nice, easy 18.2 miles on the bike. 

This afternoon, I went to the track for speedwork, but I overheated pretty fast, so I ended up only doing 3 miles with more slow jogs than actualy speed.  I ended up finishing in 26:51.  Then I met up with Ben, and we went to the pool for a few laps of swimming.  I feel nice and loose for the triathlon on Saturday.  :D

At bootcamp I took one of my clients out to run a mile on the track.  She did it in 12:43, then i did a short sprint...just because I wanted to!  :D  That's all for me today.  I'm resting up for my tri!  And I will probably sleep a bit more today as well.  Yay!

Swim 25:57

T1 4:55

Bike 1:30:46

T2 2:46

Run 1:01:46

Clearly, I need serious help with my transistions....  :D

It was a great race.  I had planned to just relax and enjoy myself, calling this another "training" run, but you know how the race energy gets into you and you can't help but push....well, I probably just need to start pushing more on my training runs!  I felt pretty good about the swim, except that I turned in towards the dock one buoy too early, so I had to backtrack a little on the swim.  My first transition was terrible.  I couldn't get my wetsuit off, my bike shorts on, my socks and shoes on, or my food in my pockets.  My sunglasses wouldn't go onto my face!  I even had to go back once to pick up things I had dropped.  So it was slow going in transition.  Then on the bike, the course was marked poorly - actually, it was marked WRONG - and I ended up doing an extra loop up a very nice, steep hill, which didn't help my time.  Still, I felt pretty good about the bike.  Another campout in the transition area trying to get my gloves off and my helmet unstrapped, and then I was off on the run.  By then, I was beginning to feel a bit head-achy from the heat.  They were completely out of water at the first aid station, which didn't help, but I drank some sticky gatorade, and kept running.  I decided at this point that I wasn't going to run full-out at the expense of heat exhaustion, so every time I began to feel the head throbbing, I took a short walk.  There was a LOT of walking!  When I got back to the first aid station, they were out of everything, including gatorade, so I had to be careful climbing the last hill into the finish area.  I finished the race in 3:06:12...plenty of room for improvement, but okay for a first triathlon.  I really enjoyed myself, and am looking forward to doing another!