It was a fab weekend, Tri day was on the Sunday so Saturday was a family day enjoying the beach at the waterpark. My 5 year old spent a solid couple of hours at the kiddies beach stood in the lake working on digging a hole - basically he created a trap to catch any unaware toddlers going for a wobbly paddle 😬!
The main things I'm taking away from this years tri experience are:
1. Swim: Despite making progress in training lake swims, I still cannot swim front crawl in open water during a triathlon. I started off in FC and to be fair did more FC than I've ever done in a race, however the panic set in and I ended up breast-stroking the bulk of the 400m in a panic like I was being chased by Jaws! But hey-ho it doesn't matter, it's something to work on, I need to sort out my front crawl in the pool then hopefully me and the lake will become better buddies!
2. Transition 1 from swim to bike: 😂 WTF?! 2 minutes 33 seconds - what was I doing?! Sitting down for a cuppa 😂 I DID lose a sock (flung it over my shoulder in my haste) found it after some hunting. Perhaps will go sockless in future if the run is a short distance.
3. My bike time: Yeeeesssssss! Chuffed with this, in my 1st triathlon I took 59 minutes on the bike - this time it was 48 minutes 😎 a cool 11 minutes faster, and on my trusty hybrid bike. Had some serious bike envy watching the road bikes whizzing along but think I held my own pretty well. Defo think I have the tri-bug as now pondering a road bike for my big 4-0 birthday!
4. The run: Shaved a minute or so off my triathlon run PB time. The effort I put into the bike stage however had left me feeling pretty depleted. I was slightly alarmed by the fact that during the run I was actually making a panting noise sort of like a dog left in a hot car ...
All in all - Yaaaaaaaay!! Really enjoyed it! Plenty (and I mean LOADS!) to work on but the hard work felt totally worth it especially when I sat down to sunday lunch + prosecco afterwards!
Best bit - My 3 year old daughter in the playground after our sunday lunch was role playing a triathlon. She was pretending to swim, then jump on a bike and then run! It was so cute and awesome to know that she thinks her mummy can be a bit kick ass 😀!!
