On Saturday we did our third club triathlon. Emma improved her time be about 5 minutes finishing as first ladies vet again and I improved by 2 minutes and finished 2nd mens vet again. So Emma beat me this time.
The was my first event swimming with my wet suit. I think I went out too hard on the swim, swam poorly and wasted a lot of energy. The run up the beach out of the water was not good and I could not get my wetsuit open. Just could not reach the Velcro tab behind my neck to get it open. Had someone help me with that and was okay getting out of it on my own.
Emma left the first transition right after I got there. Got into what I thought was a good start on the bike trying to keep good leg speed, but the first big hill I did not do so well on. Felt pretty good on the bike after the first hill and was able to pass a few people on the flats. When I came to a stop to get off my bike I braked hard and my handlebars rotated in the clamp on me. Will have to fix that.
Got through transition 2 quickly and fell into a a decent run pace right away. Just like last race my run did not feel as good as it really was. As good as I felt on the bike the run felt shitty. Just did not have enough wind which was likely an after effect of my swim. Saw another vet class man ahead of me and thought about trying to catch him but did not feel like I had it in me. There is a hill at the end of the run and I generally run hills fairly well. So I planned to run the hill as best I could and try catch the guy there. That partially worked as I halved the distance between us on the hill. Then it was down hill to the finish. I let gravity do its thing and ran past the guy down the hill. At the finish I looked back and he was going out for a second lap so he was in the long course event and not in my race. Oh well it was a good mental strength exercise.