Soo....
Swim - uneventful, for once I didn't wonder why it wasn't ending. The mindset learned from RnR was good - I'm just going for a longish swim. I peed into my wetsuit... I came home and gave it a real good rinse but I was neeeervous. I veer to my left, it's awful. I'm sure I swam a bunch more than I needed to.
long transition. we had to run like 250 meters.
Bike - the course has two longish climbs of which one is not steep at all. went well, I just span (spun? spinned?) up the two hills, I'm glad I'm more of a roadie than a triathlete because most suck at hills. Had a few passing battles, never got away from those girls but anyway. I managed almost a 30 kph average. Very happy. The altitude vacation helped loads, probably more the climbing than the altitude.
got an aero bottle yesterday, bit of an insult to the eye but practical.
Run - excellent transition; I had knots in my shoes (againN!!) BUT they were loose enough just to slip in. Then it started. I really had over-revved the engine on the bike and I paid for it. I got ever slower, legs heavy as lead, every little incline hurt. I really ran out of fuel. But even downing another gel, which I didn't have, would probably not have been the ticket - I had a knot in my stomach towards the end of the bike from digesting 3 gels since 15 minutes from the start.
But knowing I would make it in sub-3h made me go on.
Also, remembering form made it a little easier for a while before it started to hurt again. In fact I kept telling myself as long as I am not in outright physical pain, I can't stop running. I didn't even get side stitches.
I cried a little in the arms of my club mate in the finish zone. We got a medal. Hope it's useful as a bottle opener. Picked up boyfriend, he finished in 2:44 and change. Had a beer and a sausage after all the gooey sweet crap. Oh yikes, they handed out powerade. Horrible. I switched to Cola&Water.
2:55.23,0 35/56 AG, 94/146 overall. As expected, the competition at an Oly is quite a different animal.
swim 33.25 31. - DBF although fretting took 2 minutes off me!!
T1 1.59 14.
bike 1:22.33 29.
T2 1.13 6. (!)
run 56.11 47. (!) - thought I went up to 6:30-7 minute km's towards the end, but looks like I did better than my own calculations.
Considering I only ran 10K 3x before this, I'm OK.
Yayayay, I did an Oly.......
oh and I discovered the space between my boobs as universal storage place, how fun.
Oh - how about average HR: 174 .... oops :o
mmmm.... p.s. - Natascha Badmann won the short distance. She's not all ok on the swim yet, she said it was very hard, but she's making her way back.
