May 14 - May 20
S: 10,282 yds - 2hr 35min
B: 75.49 mi - 3hr 35min
R: 27.19 mi - 3hr 21min
Good Races: 1
Bad Races : 1
Lessons Learned: a couple
Total: 9hr 31min
It was a light-ish week, mainly due to the Memphis in May Triathlon weekend. Just like last year, I planned on doing the sprint on Saturday and the olympic on Sunday, with hopes of making a little bit of cash in this so called "Amateur Challenge" to pay for gas or something. In short, the Good was my Sunday olympic distance race. I had a sweet 57:xx bike and a 39:xx run in super hot/no shade conditions, which I was happy about. It was solid execution and I was pleased. Although the race was good, the Bad was my swim in the olympic race. Swimming 25:xx is not going to cut it. Now we did have to swim through a ton of swimmers in older age groups that started before us, but that is no excuse. The Ugly was my sprint race on Saturday. I pretty much blew it, and was totally embarrassed considering how my running has been going and the couple of 5k's that I've ran recently. I got my butt handed to me, and that's about it. People that I should normally crush beat me by 2 minutes, which in a sprint race is a beat down. I got owned. Anyways, here's a short recap.
Sprint Tri
Swim - 8:08
T1 - 0:47
Bike - 30:49
T2 - 0:57
Run - 20:34
Total - 1:01:14
The swim felt ok, but then I got on the bike and it felt WAY too hard given the wattage I was putting out. I backed off towards the end because things weren't feeling good, but the run was still awful. I haven't felt that bad in quite some time. I'm not really sure what happened, but it resulted in a beat down and it was not very fun!
Olympic Tri
Swim - 25:08
T1 - 0:55
Bike - 57:28
T2 - 0:52
Run - 39:55
Total - 2:04:18
I didn't feel bad on the swim, but the results speak otherwise. Clearly, the bike was a lot of fun. Stiff headwinds greeted us for the first 20k, but the last 20k saw a tailwind and a 28 mph average speed. The run started off slow for the first mile but I found my legs and stayed cooled for a good performance.
Overall, the competition in both races was pretty stiff and the weather was HOT!!! I ended up 20th in the sprint and 22nd in the olympic, giving me 12th out of 65 in the Amateur Challenge competition for a $75 payout. The sprint could have gone a little better but I learned some stuff, moved on, recovered, and had a good race the next day. The olympic race was pretty stacked. Any time a 2:04 is good for only 22nd, you know it was a tough field. I'm looking forward to the rest of the season, I think I've knocked off most of the rust on the racing legs, so we'll see how the summer goes!
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