A Quick Update - Today's Tri

**Veronica** · 07-13-2008, 02:39 PM

I finished on the podium! Second in the Athena Division. I got to stand on the giant Red Bull can! Very exciting. Swim was good, bike was good, run.. well it still needs work. I learned a lot today. We're watching today's tour stage, so my detailed recap will come later.

V.

**Blueberry** · 07-13-2008, 03:19 PM

Yay V!!! Congratulations!!!! Looking forward to the full report

CA

**Tri Girl** · 07-13-2008, 03:21 PM

Woo hoo!!!! A Red Bull podium finish? Can't wait to read more about it.

**jobob** · 07-13-2008, 03:30 PM

Yeah V!!!

**maillotpois** · 07-13-2008, 03:58 PM

congrats!!!

now, of course, I have that great pete townshend song "athena" running through my head.

**Trek420** · 07-13-2008, 04:05 PM

Now look what you've gone and done

Now we all do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRx3...eature=related

**snapdragen** · 07-13-2008, 04:10 PM

That's awesome Veronica! Congratulations!

**solobiker** · 07-13-2008, 04:10 PM

Congrats!! That is great!!~

**Urlea** · 07-13-2008, 04:30 PM

Woohoo!!! Way to go Veronica!

**Veronica** · 07-13-2008, 04:53 PM

Some stats:

Swim was by my reckoning 29 minutes. I'm happy with that as I am not working the swim at all. I haven't been in the pool in 2 weeks.

Bike was 1:24. I'm pretty happy with that as well. It's an average speed of 17.5. I was a little faster on the way out than on the way back. Not bad for a regular road bike and riding on the hoods most of the time.

The run... well it started off okay. My first mile was 10:31. the second was 11:33. It had gotten hilly. The third was 12, which frankly, is what I expected to be doing. But somewhere between mile 3 and 4 my stomach informed that I had had way too much water to drink. I walked probably 3/4 of the rest of the run course. My students have always complained that I'm a fast walker. Today, I think that's a good thing.

My overall run time was about 1:17. I had been hoping for about 1:12. I kept thinking about that article Wahine found after her tri and how she was able to run at slower pace, but still run. I'm looking forward to the day when I have a fast pace and a slow pace.

But I'm happy to say that in spite of the run not going well, I don't loathe running like I did after the Tri for Fun. The first three miles were tough, a lot of hills and gravel. I HATE gravel. I'm going to make a point of running on gravel this winter - hilly gravel. I have a goal of being able to run up my mountain bike trail. I've been told that will make me a running goddess.

But in spite of the gravel and hills, the first three miles were good. AND I felt that way before I found out that I had gotten second.

I estimate my total time was around 3:15. I was so disappointed when I came to the finish and the clock said 3:40. I knew I had been slow on the run, but still... When Thom said that I'd done well with a 3:15 finish, I was kind of confused. Apparently a little bulb flashed over my head, because then I realized, "Oh yeah, I started 25 minutes after the first wave."

I'll have pictures in a day or two. Official times will eventually be forthcoming I'm sure.

V.

**Urlea** · 07-13-2008, 05:06 PM

Veronica-

Sorry to hear about the full stomach from all of the water jostling around during the run. Way to push through it anyway!

What were the distances of the swim, bike, run? ( I can't remember

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