First things first:
- Total Time: 1:10:00
- Swim 400m: 14.16
- Cycle 10km: 30:38
- Run 4km: 25:06
What I’m happy with:
Completed the triathlon itself. There were a couple of places where I was thinking “How do I affect my team if I pull out?” But it ended up being a moot point by finishing.
Generally happy with the run time. It’s not fast but I walked a (fair) bit of it due to good old exhaustion. I can improve that next time with something called regular and consistent training.
Happy with the swim time. Would have like to have been a bit quicker but I never got to swim in the river or the ocean prior to the day and I think I was just a little surprised about the feel and how long 400m can be when there are no rests (like at the end of the pool!).
Happy (content) with overall time. I was thinking of doing it in an hour but as I got closer to the day, I was thinking with the lack of training and not being a strong swimmer maybe 75 mins would be a better first target. Beating that by 5 mins was great, especially as the technology failed and I had no idea how I was going. Fixing my bike speedo and having a waterproof watch on with a timer (my Polar) would have helped. Apparently my Garmin 305 is not intended for swimming so I wasn’t going to risk that.
What I’m not happy about
My own lassaiz faire attitude. For some reason I thought I’d just turn up and complete this (not easily) but well. I came up short! Even my colleagues at work were saying: “Aren’t you in a triathlon this weekend?”
Technology didn’t work. I have a bike speedo that for some reason did not want to play (and I think I JUST realised why! OMG – I took the front wheel off to put it in my car and I bet I put it back on reversed! Sheesh! LOL. Oh dear.) Anyway, because I wasn’t getting any readings my pace fell off and that is partly the reason for the slow time on the bike – tiredness and lack of training being the other other two.
What I really liked was the atmosphere. Here were 2,200 people all competing but being very supportive as well. If all of life was like that I am sure we’d all be in a better place. The course marshals also played a great role in encouraging you when you went by them which was great.
My recovery is still going (20 hours later) so I need to look into recovering quicker. I’m not sore but feeling a little weak and flu-ey, if that makes sense.
Where to from here?
Planning on taking a break this work week (Mon – Fri) and then back into the running on the weekend. Plan on joining a swimming club to get my freestyle working and improving my swimming performance, which will also help my overall stamina I’ve never had a “big tank” and it obviously affects my results.
Also planning to get back into the 100 Push Ups and 200 Sit Ups.
