0.9 mile swim
25 mile bike
6 mile run
I had ambitions of spending time in the pool. I got a faculty locker at the UNM gym. It is $25 a year, and the faculty locker is beautiful. But life is crazy busy. The main thing is I finished the swim. The swim coarse is swimming downstream the snake river. So, if the river is 3 mph, you could float and still finish the swim.
The bike was easy. I bike to work several times a week. I trade 15-20 min in the car for 30-35 minutes on my bike. If I did not do that, I would only work out a couple times a month. I passed quite a few people on the bike. Only a handful of people passed me. Just folks on $5k time trial bikes, like the Cervelo P3, etc. I think I was averaging 23 mph.
Well, I did follow through with the running training. I did a few bricks. If I got home early enough from work, I would put on my running shoes and put Maggie in the jogger. Once I put both girls in our Chariot.
I just ran in my bike shorts. I looked dorky, but I wanted to make sure it would not cause major chaffing.
When I got passed by the Kenyan types, some 100 pound guy that you see running marathons, I did not mind. And when I got chicked, I can deal with that. (Chicked is getting passed by a girl.) But when the fat guy passed me, that was too much. I got passed a bunch on the run.
My overall time was 2:31 (1st was 1:49, the top time is just for reference.)
Swim 22:11 I got passed by the wave behind me. (12:38)
Transition 3 minutes
Bike 1:07 (58)
Transition 2
Run 56:58 (34) I had ambition of running 8 min miles. My faulty reasoning is, "If I can run 9 min miles pushing 50 lbs of kids, I should be able to do 8 min miles".
So I finished 526 of the 1623 finishers. Daren signed me up in the Elite group. I finished 29th of 46 Elite men. I bet Daren had a great big smile when he was thinking, "what group should I put Krynn into? ... Elite." There was only two of us in the Elite swim wave not wearing a $200+ triathlon wetsuit.
It was fun to do a triathlon. The snake river valley was beautiful. Being surrounded by farmland, brought back fond memories. We passed sugar beat and potato fields.
It was fun to race my Chelsey and Crishelle. They finished strong. I hope someday I can do a triathlon with Maggie and Claire. I hope they will still want to do stuff with their dad. And I hope I can still run.
