So I had to get up pretty early for this one - left the house at 5 a.m. this morning to drive to Vulcan. No traffic meant that I was a little early - got there at 6:30 a.m. (I might have been speeding slightly).
I checked in, got my bib and numbers put on my body (with ink that won't come off for another week), had my biked looked at and then waited for my swim.
500M SWIM....Originally my heat was 8:00 a.m. because I said it would take me 20+ minutes (not sure what I swam it in). I got in early in the swim about 7:45 a.m. and it was bloody cold! Did my 500M swim, took it nice and easy and only shared the lane with 2 others people.
SWIM TO BIKE TRANSITION - Not to bad this go round, as I said it was cold so I ran my ass to my bike and quickly changed into biking gear, this transition stuff is what I need to get use to cause you can eat up a lot of your time.
15K BIKE - Love the biking. This route was flat with a slight hill near the turnarond. Found it easy going out but on the way back it was windy. No problem, I was hydrating and eating on the bike and I love the bike even thou it was windy I felt like I coasted.
I even picked people to pass on my bike....loved it.
BIKE TO RUN TRANSITION - Again getting use to this bit.
Did a lot of stuff wrong when I got ready for my run. First I left my number belt at home so had to wear my bib on my shirt - now when you do a tri you wear the number on the back when biking and front running. So I had my shirt on backwards for the run so my number would be on the back (what was the point thou it was covered up by my jacket - it was cold). I had to turn my shirt around during transition so that my bib would be on the front for the run.
I packed my fuel belt for the run but in my transition when I put it on I forgot to put my water on the belt so ran 5K with a totally empty fuel belt. It was all for looks.
5K RUN - I don't know what it is but even thou I had jello legs I was maintaining race pace (6:30) during my 5K run. I took no breaks (well I had someone take my photo that took 5 secs) and felt really good during the run.
I finished at around 9:24 a.m. so that was that. I had heard that the Vulcan Tinman had great food but at 9:30 a.m. they don't have that stuff ready, all they had was orange and milk (yuck)! There was no shirt, even thou it clearly said on the race info that I should pick up my shirt after I was done - I got a bag instead (don't need another bag) but wanted a race shirt. Don't they give these out for Tri's?
As I was all by myself I packed everything up, drove to Fran's for coffee and then came home. Was home by 12:15 p.m. and that is that.
Update later on my time for everything.
