This was my 4th time doing B2B. I love it. Here's my RR:
Had a child almost 3 months ago. Training was essentially nonexistent. Maybe an average of one workout per week, if I was lucky. So went in with no expectations.
Swim: 28:06, 8th in my AG. Love this swim.
T1: 3:02 2nd in AG. I never have fast transitions. Ever. I'm happy with this.
Bike: 2:37:50 12th. Wanted to take it really easy, stay between 158-162 NP. Ended at 162. Works for me.
T2: 3:32 23rd. Bag was misplaced and spent half that time running around looking for it.
Run: 2:11:18. Slowest half I've ever "run". But whatever, longest run I've done since late June was 5 miles. Overall I'm happy with my race.
Rant time:
At mile 9 I saw a guy sitting on the curb holding his leg with his head on his knee. He obviously wasn't resting. I came up to him and asked if he was ok, and he said he heard his leg "snap". He moved his hands and there was a big indentation where his shin should be smooth. He had KT tape on, so it was a pretty safe assumption that he had shin splints (and/or stress fracture) that he ran into a real fracture. I made him stay on the curb, because he kept trying to get up. Flagged down a car (the first 3 thought I was just waving at them, apparently), and couldn't get through to 911. So the woman offered to drive him to the med tent at the finish line.
She was awesome. Of the 50+ athletes that ran by him (and that's just what I saw) not one asked if he was ok. I know this for a fact because he told me when I checked on him after the race.
So, anyway, what was an otherwise beautiful day (I didn't know about the swim death till later) had this sour taste to it from watching people just ignore this guy. Sometimes triathletes really are the worst people.
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Yes, I know it's grammatically incorrect. Blame AOL and their 90s-era character limits.
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Had a child almost 3 months ago. Training was essentially nonexistent. Maybe an average of one workout per week, if I was lucky. So went in with no expectations.
Swim: 28:06, 8th in my AG. Love this swim.
T1: 3:02 2nd in AG. I never have fast transitions. Ever. I'm happy with this.
Bike: 2:37:50 12th. Wanted to take it really easy, stay between 158-162 NP. Ended at 162. Works for me.
T2: 3:32 23rd. Bag was misplaced and spent half that time running around looking for it.
Run: 2:11:18. Slowest half I've ever "run". But whatever, longest run I've done since late June was 5 miles. Overall I'm happy with my race.
Rant time:
At mile 9 I saw a guy sitting on the curb holding his leg with his head on his knee. He obviously wasn't resting. I came up to him and asked if he was ok, and he said he heard his leg "snap". He moved his hands and there was a big indentation where his shin should be smooth. He had KT tape on, so it was a pretty safe assumption that he had shin splints (and/or stress fracture) that he ran into a real fracture. I made him stay on the curb, because he kept trying to get up. Flagged down a car (the first 3 thought I was just waving at them, apparently), and couldn't get through to 911. So the woman offered to drive him to the med tent at the finish line.
She was awesome. Of the 50+ athletes that ran by him (and that's just what I saw) not one asked if he was ok. I know this for a fact because he told me when I checked on him after the race.
So, anyway, what was an otherwise beautiful day (I didn't know about the swim death till later) had this sour taste to it from watching people just ignore this guy. Sometimes triathletes really are the worst people.
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Yes, I know it's grammatically incorrect. Blame AOL and their 90s-era character limits.
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