Busy week, lucky to work every day, as the school year is coming to an end, last day for students is June 20. I don't think I'll be working too much next week.
"Tapered" this week for a small local sprint.
Bike 1x spin class
Openwater swim 1x
Saturday & Sunday worked a swim meet (left early Sat to pickup packet 40+ miles away, and arrived after finishing triathlon on Sunday)
Sunday- Redondo Beach Triathlon--overall time was about 2 minutes faster than 2011 (last time I did this race), each split was 2+ minutes faster, except swim which was only about 1 min faster, so my transitions must have been slower. All of my training buddies were in a later wave, but I couldn't switch due to the fact I had to be at the swim meet at a certain time. Swim was good, nice and calm, bike was okay, run is what it is. Tweaked my knee going up the stairs on the course, dang I should have used the elevator (RD made a comment about the elevator during pre-race talk.
When I was finishing the first loop of the bike, I saw an ambulance and lifeguard trucks coming to the turnaround point and thought someone had wiped out on the turnaround (it's at the bottom of a little hill), then tonight as I was browsing FB I find out that a competitor died, not on the bike, but "finishing" the swim. Local newspaper said he collapsed as he was finishing the swim, so I don't know if that means running out on the beach, up the asphalt/concrete path to transition or on the way in while still in the water. It's a scary thought.
I'm thankful that my training buddies all were okay. It was the first open ocean/beach (with waves) swim for one of them, so a couple of the gals stuck with her on the swim, saw them coming out of the water as I headed out to run. We train open water regularly, but that is usually in a protected bay, and conditions the week before didn't allow for us to get out to our usual "wavy" spot.
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