Hi all:
THought I'd give a race report- though it feel a bit more like confession...
shall I start now with the excuses or wait until after the report...
This was just a sprint.
My DH and I signed up early in may before:
a) I hyperextended my big toe sailing ( ouch ouch ouch)
b) busy family situation with my sister sick...
so to make a long list of excuses short I basically had a 5 week taper going into this tri- no swimming biking or running
Why would I do it??? well we had already paid for the tri 90.00 each and paid for a hotel so we though what the heck
what's the worse that can happen???
As I am racking my bike, the girl next to me says " Tam is that you???"
Turns out it was a girl I knew when I was 12-( I'm 43 now) we swam competitively against eachother- she was my only competition then!
OHH GOD ! I felt like I was 12 again- and I'm not trained!!!
As it turns out I had nothing to worry about- she won our age group and I ... well i was pulling up the rear
The distances were 750m swim, 20km bike, 5km run
My times 14.50 swim
bike 46.26
run 31.??
overall time 1.31.11

I really really need to cycle more ( well along with everything else) but I know even if I trained tons my swim would only get marginally better,
my run can improve for sure but I know even when I am trained running I'm not that fast- I could hope for a 25min 5km if I'm really trained
The bike... well I think that is where I can make some major improvements-
you can see, I am already trying to figure out where I can make up the time that the agegroup winner beat me by ( 20 minutes!!!!)

( and yes DH beat me too but only by 1.47)
btw - I'm really not that competitive