Jay Benson's Triathlon

Wow!  I sucked....

I was in the third wave.  We start off by running a, slightly further, 5k.  I was having a hard time keeping up with my group.  I ran about an 8 minute pace.  But, I knew this was only the beginning of the race.  The bike will be where the time will be made up.

The bike was crazy.  As we came out onto Central, it was a gradual climb with head wind.  The gradual climb went into a steep climb.  This climb was much of the first half of the bike course.  At the turn around on 98th street, I knew the fun was about to begin.  Coming back on Central, going east, it was down hill and down wind.  Yes!  I topped out on my highest gear, tuck, look at my computer and see "45mph".  Cool.  As I'm coming up to an intersection, I see a cyclist laid out in the road with the cop moving towards him.  Looks like a car crossed when they should have waited.  That looked painful.

Coming into transition, I crossed over my right leg a bit early, but had enough speed to carry me up to the dismount line.  I grab my goggles and swim cap.  Run towards the pool and jump in.  The swim is 8 lanes of 50 meter swimming (400 meters).  It was very nice since the lanes were wide and one direction.  In the deep end of the second lane, I saw a race belt with a bib at the very bottom of the pool (funny).  I was caught up by another male contender, but in the last lane, I passed him and got out of the pool before him.  I think he might have been in the next age group up from me.  He patted me on the back and said "good swim".  That is the mood of triathletes, always good natured, helping one another.

After my race, I cheered on the other swimmers and walked around.  The food was a bit lacking, but I managed to still stuff my face with cookies and bananas.  I saw my results (not on the podium), so got my bike and went to Subway.

TODO: Work on my run and breathing.  Work on continuous swimming.  Continue with spin class to help my bike strength.  Drop some lbs; I'm too heavy to be on the podium.  Get a new water bottle for my tri bike.

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