Notes
Swim (1/3 mile) 14:50 (2:34/100yds)
T1 - 3:28.5
Bike (14 miles) - 54:46 (15.3 mph)
T2 - 1:12
Run (3 miles) - 23:06 (7:42 min/mile)
Finish - 1:37:21
Overall 230/365
Gender 135/180
Age Group (60-64) 5/5
Well I'm still standing! I have to admit it was actually fun, sort of... The water was FREEZING... 59 degrees! Once I got over the inital shock and a frozen face I was able to do the swim. Nothing spectacular... I need to work on my siting as I tended to wander a bit! T1 went pretty well, though my feet were numb. Now enter the massive hills on the bike ride. Wow. I drove them yesterday in the car, but to ride them was another story. I took the uphills slowly in my lowest gear in some cases. It was really the downhills that scared me the most!! This runner felt a bit out of control and used the brakes. It cost me time. They started the novices first this year and a few minutes into the bike race the "elites" were screaming by us on their $10,000 bikes! My feet never really woke up. T2 went fast, but my legs were screaming at me. Took me about a mile to get a rhythm going, and at about mile 2, I was able to start kicking in some speed and even passed a bunch.
I am trying to get over that even though I'm 59 they group you with the 60 year olds! Ha... grew up fast!
All in all it was a neat experience with some definite challenges that would have been helped with more training. I am not sure I will ever get used to the downhills on a bike... I go the bike up to 30 MPH and really started to worry... the elites must have been doing 50 mph on the downhills!