Kinetic Sprint Tri

Race yesterday morning was lots of fun.  My last race with the Georgetown Tri Team... hard to believe.  I drove down to Lake Anna, VA, Saturday afternoon and camped overnight with Alex & Michelle and Dave Solomon.  Dixie came too!  (And promptly got into something pretty stinky, but I got her rinsed off in the lake so she's better now.)

Race day was beautiful.  The water was in the mid 60s, and air temp warmed up into the 70s.  People before the race were calling me crazy for not swimming with a wetsuit, but as I got out into the swim I realized that I definitely wouldn't have wanted one - I would have overheated!  The bike was scenic and the roads smooth for the most part.  A few rolling hills, but nothing major.  The fact that I haven't been on my bike since Nationals three weeks ago definitely caught up with me, however.  I would feel strong for short stretches and then WHOA... that's what tired legs feel like!  My front tire flatted about a mile from the end of the bike.  I kept hearing this strange clicking sound and then POP.  But I was close enough that I just rode it in carefully.  I didn't have a flat kit with me anyway.

The run would have been much better if it hadn't taken me three full miles to get my legs to stop feeling like lead bricks, leaving me only a few hundred yards to actually "race", but I had no intention of pushing really hard during this race anyway, so I was plenty happy to just keep chugging along at a steady pace.

The drive back home was quite possibly the roughest part of the whole day.  The monotony of the highway was trying to put me to sleep, but Coca-Cola and Dr Pepper (and one boston creme donut) were my friends!  Dixie and I made it home safe and sound, then slept until dinnertime, ate, and slept until morning.

Kinetic Sprint Tri

750 meter swim, 18 mile bike, 3.1 mile run

Swim: 12:19

T1: 1:53

Bike: 55:58

T2: 1:29

Run: 27:16

TOTAL: 1:38:52

P.S. I'll try to post some pictures from the race and our post-race team photo when I get a chance.