Pocatello Sprint Triathalon

This Saturday, I participated in my second sprint triathalon. It was a lot of fun! There was about 200 people in it, about 75 women. Here is a picture of the start of the tri. It was a reverse tri, so it went run, bike swim. The men went first at 7:30, then the women started at 8am. I wish we could have gone earlier because it was hot! I am about 2/3 of the way back in this pic.

My mom , Jason and all my girls went to cheer me on. I had to be there at 6:45, and Jason and the girls got there right about 7:45, so it was an early day for everyone. During my run and bike, the girls went and played on the toys.

Corrine is just too cute! When she saw me from across the parking lot, she waved and loudly said "HIIIIIIIIIIII"

Here I am coming back from the run. It was 3.2 miles, and somewhat uphill. It took me longer than normal to run that far, not sure why. My run time was 33:32 minutes long.

Here I am after transition from run to bike, coming out of the transition area. You have to walk your bike to the mount line, if you mount early you get a penalty. I also slammed down a hammer gel, Jason got a pic of that but its not very flattering. So sorry to the man in the background, didn't mean to get you almost naked on my blog.


Here I am coming back from the ride. We rode almost 13 miles. My time for the bike was 54:10 minutes. It was a hard ride, with a brutal head wind during part of it. But after the head wind, coming back, I felt great. I wasn't tired, and I was thinking, "I got this! I can't wait to swim!" It was so nice to see everyone sitting on chairs, waiting for me and calling out to me as I passed!

The swim portion was 500 yards, 10 laps. I was feeling really good when I got into the water, then after one lap I was pooped! It just hit me. For a bit, there was 5 people in my lane, which was a learning experience. I knew what to do, it was just awkward swimming with so many other people. I am sure that effected my time, which was 15:58 minutes. I had been doing it in 12 minutes or less at the gym, so I guess after running and biking that wasn't so bad. When I was doing the breaststroke, Michaela and Payden were calling my name and saying "go mom" every time my head came out of the water!

Whew, I am tired by this point, and so glad to get out of the water. It is really hard to swim when you are tired and out of breath!

You got out of the water, then went through the finish line. Yeah, I did it! And guess what, I wasn't last! I wasn't even third to last, which was my goal, ha ha! I placed 58th out of 75 women! There was over 10 people slower than me! But something I noticed on this race, I am really not competitive with other people, just myself. I wanted to get a better time than what I did, 1:46:07, but I am pleased. This was a harder course than the other tri I did, and I did all three things in one day, so I think I improved over my last one. I can't wait to do it next year and hopefully improve my time!