Metroplex Sprint Triathlon

[KSH]

KSH- amazing race report!!! You are an ANIMAL on the bike!!! OMG- nearly 21 mph avg. WOW!!! I'm sooooo thrilled that your first tri back in the saddle was so great. Not only was your race good, but you feel good too (well, aside from the headache).
AMAZING!!!! I'm in awe of you!!! You've really worked hard this last year and it's definitely paying off!!! Congrats on a great race!!!! So very proud of you!!!!
Thanks for posting about your race- I was thinking about you (and eclectic) all day.

CONGRATS!!!

HA... well, thanks. It was a fast and FLAT course with little to no wind. Everyone was going fast today. For me, my average was great, but for my AG it was just... average.

My hard work is paying off though. I have to say, I think my boyfriend is a little ticked off. My overall time beat his overall time by about 30 seconds. Of course, he trains like 2-3 days a week and I train 5-7 days a week. There are many weekends where I go out to ride and he stays in bed.

So, I wonder how eclectic did. I guess we get her race report tomorrow.

[Running Mommy]

I would kill to have that bike speed! And that confidence to kick a little arse in the water??!! Way to get at it!!
As for the headache, it could be a bit of low blood sugar- need to eat. But it could also very well be dehydration. In fact I would suspect that since the headache lasted a while. Usually if it's bood sugar it goes away once you eat.
So drink up girlie!
And congrats!! Great job!
Denise

[eclectic]

KSH -- AWESOME job ! ! ! ! and a high five! I wish my times were near that fast and you had a longer distance to go than I did.

YOU ROCK! ! !

[alpinerabbit]

Excellent job - particularly the swim of course! I hope I will do just like you.....

[HappyAnika]

Um, didn't you say this was a "C" race for you?

Way to go on the bike! You ROCK!!! That is an amazing average, and its good it didn't affect your run.

Congratulations on a great race. Maybe this will motivate your boyfriend to get his lazy bum out of bed and go riding with you!

[btchance]

Awesome job KSH - you were a monster on the bike!! And it must feel nice to beat the boyfriend.

[KSH]

Um, didn't you say this was a "C" race for you?

Way to go on the bike! You ROCK!!! That is an amazing average, and its good it didn't affect your run.

Congratulations on a great race. Maybe this will motivate your boyfriend to get his lazy bum out of bed and go riding with you!

Well, it was a C race, in the sense that I didn't want to taper for it. I kind of did due to scheduling though and ended up with 2 days of rest beforehand. Ooopss.

But my goal was to try to blow it out, no holding back. Screw holding back on the bike to save it for the run. I wanted to see if pushing on the bike would affect my run. The last tri I did, I did a 16 mph average and I held back on the bike to save it for the run.

I learned no holding back on the bike. Go for it. I can still make the run afterwards just fine.


As for beating my boyfriend... uuuhhhh... I really don't like it. He gets all... macho... about the fact that his girlfriend beat him. He is being a good sport about it, as good as he can be... but I could tell at the race he was ticked off that my bike average beat his. Oh well, it will motivate him to workout.

[eclectic]

As for beating my boyfriend... uuuhhhh... I really don't like it. He gets all... macho... about the fact that his girlfriend beat him. He is being a good sport about it, as good as he can be... but I could tell at the race he was ticked off that my bike average beat his. Oh well, it will motivate him to workout.

Men, men, men
DBF is like that w/ me too. I got a road bike basically just so I could keep up w/ him on his hybrid (if he ever got a road bike I would be sucking dust big time) NOW he doesn't like it because I can keep up w/ him and ride farther. I told him it is his fault because if he had just slowed down a little and waited for me I would never have felt the need for a new bike, started doing tours, then metric centuries, then centuries and now triathlons

Hopefully this will just motivate your DBF to work a little harder. DON'T you dare coddle him to feed his ego - lesson learned for him - you don't work as hard you pay the price (there that is MOM talking ( I think I am the oldest one here :P