SpinDizzy Du(s) A season in one post

I decided rather than posting every 2 weeks :eek:, I would just do one long post at the end of the season. I did 7/9 races offered by The Subaru Triathlon Series. (posted below) It was a mediocre season; I did not PB one race this year. A few podium finishes and an overall 2nd in my age group for the season. It really lacks significance when there was no improvement in rbr. (run/bike/run)

The forest fiasco :eek: (Niagara) refers to the situation that developed when the first place racer was so far ahead of the second place racer, coupled with the unfortunate misplacement of an arrow that caused a mass of humanity to go over a bridge (in lemming fashion) only to face another wall of humanity that somehow realized the error and had turned back. So they threw out the first run and T1. This was a race where I actually was ahead of one of the individuals that regularly beats me in my AG. I passed her twice and had an awesome transition. A small mental blow.

Yesterday's race - Mother Nature's contrary nature - after a summer of training in heat and humidity- she dropped the temps to 12 C, pumped up the wind machine and turned on the faucet. The triathletes got to "do a du" as well; the lake was way too choppy. I was happy not to have got blown off my bike - many others were not so fortunate. My feet were numb for the first km of the 2nd run. Should have worn the smart wool!

Will sit down with my coach in a few weeks to formulate plan for next year. It's a bit of downtime for this body.

2010 Races
Victoria - sunny, warm; 1:51:30 Rank 10/20
4K 21:14 (5:19) :59 30K 1:04:29 (27.9kph) :50 4k 24:08 (6:02)

Milton – rain: cool and cloudy; 2:01:50 Rank 2/4
2K 10:46 (5:23) :55 30k 1:05:02 (27.7kph) 1:12 7.5k 43:57 (5:52)

Guelph Lake 1 – hot and humid; 1:21:52 Rank 4/19
2K 10:04 (5:02) 1:20 19k 41:00 (27.8kph) 1:18 5k 28:12 (5:39)

Belwood – sunny, warm, windy; 1:52:08 Rank 4/7
2K 9:40 (4:50) :57 30k 1:01:48 (29.1kph) 1:08 7K 38:37 (5:31)

Niagara – cloudy, warm, windy, humid, forest fiasco; 1:37:21 Rank 5/10
(run #1 and T1 thrown out) 25k 56:24 (26.6 kph) :58 7k 40:00 (5:43)

Orillia- rain, cool, windy; 2:00:05 Rank 3/10
2K 10:15 (5:08) 1:00 33k 1:10:11 (28.2kph) 1:01 7k 37:41 (5:23)

Guelph Lake 2- cold (12 C), windy (33kph, gusts to 60) rain, 2:04:13 Rank 3/9
3K 15:28 (5:10) 1:26 30k 1:07:30 (26.7kph) 1:17 7k 38:35 (5:31)

Wow! You had a great season, Spin!

Too bad the Niagra race was such a fiasco. What a mess! And yesterday was brutal. I've gotta give you credit for hanging in there and finishing.

Now you can take a welcome break and train for next year.

WOW- another successful season in the books! Way to go, Spin!!! :D

Thanks. One of my goals was to do a couple of the summer races. I'm not good in heat and humidity and needed to get over that mental barrier. The Belwood race was the 3rd week of July. It was my best performance of the year. Go figure!!

Some of my other goals were not met. Weight goal (just a few pounds heavy-but I didn't get to race weight of last 2 years - curse aging!) and speed goals for run and bike.

So this weekend I'm scheduled to get my bodyfat measurement in one of those Pod thingys. Then I will see a nutritionist (is that a word?) to look at diet and perhaps get a gait analysis done (I kick my ankles a lot - it's called heel whip.) I have an ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow for my nagging, chronic "I don't know what or how I did it" supraspinatous injury.Then meet with my coach and plot a course for next year.

Way to go! I can't wait to hear about your meeting with a nutritionist! I love that stuff!

Awesome season, SpinDizzy. Maybe no PBs, but lots of solid races and you got to expand your horizons into some different conditions (intentionally or not ;)).