Metroplex Sprint Triathlon

[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

[KSH]

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

Ah men and their macho attitudes. I love seeing it when I go out riding... pass a guy... and he is sure to pass me back. Men hate being passed by women.

I especially LOVE passing boys up hills. My boyfriend has been around when I do it. He said they see me pass, start to try to catch up and then slump back down realizing it isn't going to happen. Of course, they make sure to zoom by me on the downhills.

Yea, you better hope your DBF doesn't get a road bike, then you might not catch him. Or, you would get really fast!

Coddle him? Naw. I pointed out to him in his race report that he did a good job, considering he only worked on average... 1.5 hours a week leading up to the race. Yea, he works out on average 1.5 hours and I workout on average 7 hours.