Day 98, Week 14, Diamond in the Rough Olympic Triathlon

It's kinda like being angry. It's better to wait until you've recovered to make any judgements. Even though I didn't do as well as I'd hope looking forward to the Half-Ironman in September I'm training for, I finished the race which is a victory, and I finished all three legs without having to take any breaks or walk. I swam well, however, I royally screwed it up because I sighted on the wrong buoy for the first 1/4 mile of the .94 mile swim. A, c'est la vie. I wished I'd done much better in the bike. I was hoping for 15-17 mph avg, but only managed 14. The climb rate was about 50 ft/mi. However, will be only 4 for the September race, so hopefully I'll be okay there. The run went really well. If I managed an 11:00 pace I'd be happy, and I came out with 9:59! Over course, different races will have very different terrain, my first Olympic in Claremore last year, my time was 4:04:19 and yesterday, by second one, was 3:48:37. I did perform much better yesterday. I'm still way down close to the bottom in the standings, but that's not why I do it. In the end I do know that it's something that not many people can do and I did it.

I'm going to change my training plan to do long courses for all three and no short:

• Sunday: Brick
• Monday: Short Core
• Tuesday: Run
• Wednesday: Short Core
• Thursday: Long Core
• Friday: Swim
• Saturday: Short Core