26:26
19 of 152 females
5 of 28 age group
Course and Elevation Profile
The course, hilly, not awful, but sloping inclines and steep downhills. I knew that going into it since this went right through the zoo, I go there nearly every week with my girls. I was also prepared for the not so barefoot friendly parts of the course. What I was not prepared for was Remington Park. We ran on the grass inside the track, not a big deal for me, I found it enjoyable. Nearly everyone else I heard afterwards did not.
Pros:
I was sold on this race as soon as I heard about the charity. What a great cause getting artificial limbs to those that can't afford it. I will definitely be back next year.
I got to run through the zoo! How cool is that?? I love races in places you would otherwise never get to run in!
Tshirt, yes I like races with tshirts.
I feel like the cons are lopsided, I enjoyed this race, the ambiance was great. Seeing people who benefit from the organization was great. Maybe if it was a longer race I'd have more to say about it :)
Cons:
I guess there were very few trail runners there, everyone was complaining about running on the grass. Most of the last mile was on grass, some of it wet. Lots of people said they would not be back next year for this race unless they changed the course. It would be more enjoyable to run most of it through the zoo. Of course that would turn it into an out and back, it would also have to go through buildings or exhibits to get the extra mileage to stay in the zoo, so I don't know what the solution would be. I enjoyed the course. I loved going through the zoo, I enjoyed the grass. I will definitely be back next year whether it's changed or not.
The other complaint I heard: It needs to start earlier. I agree, after getting up so early for tri's the last few weekends. It felt late, it was already hot. I spent an hour hanging around waiting for the race to start and was already sweating. That would be my one big con for this race. Seconded by water! Which is always my complaint about nearly all races. One water stop on a very hot morning is not enough.
There were issues with the timing which is not the Limbs for Life's or DG Production's fault. Apparently the software that the two companies use weren't compatible so things got jumbled when they sent all the racers' info to the timing company. There was a similar issue the week before at OCCC's triathlon, hopefully DG can figure out a solution, knowing them they probably already have.
OCCC SuperSprint Triathlon
1:18:25
2/52 females. That's right second overall! Woohoo!!
1/7 age group
500mSwim: 11:32 (I know, sad isn't it :p) T1: 1:16 12.5mBike: 39:53 T2: 0:25 5kRun: 25:21
Bike Course and Elevation
New Sprint PR and 5K PR for me! Yeah!!
Pros (I know I'm a little biased since this is my home pool):
Friendly volunteers
The lanes are huge! It is a 50m by 25y pool. You basically get 5, 5 yard lanes. They started each swimmer 15 seconds apart which was perfect in my opinion.
Both bike and run course were flat. I did hear some people who are mainly runners remark about the hills, so I guess my definition of hill has changed. I'll try to post the elevation profile later, the accuracy may not be wonderful since my aero bar was rubbing, doing strange things to it.
For once someone got the water stops right! One maybe a quarter mile in that could be hit 4 times (you ran past it into a turnaround and back past it before heading to the main turnaround) and then one at the halfway point! Perfect!!
The medals are nice. I liked the shirt, I had seen the previous year's shirt and was not that impressed, I didn't like the colors. This year's was much better, might even be my new favorite race shirt.
Cons:
Portland road is filled with potholes and is a very poor road to ride on. I'm sort of used to that in Oklahoma, but it is probably among the worst 10 roads I've been on.
The choice of road leading in and out of the college for the bike created a bottle neck.
I felt like the course was marked well, but I did hear of some people taking wrong turns.
Where was the clock at the finish??? Even if it's a staggered start I can do the math to know what time to take off! I wanted to know what my time was when I finished. It didn't take him too long to start posting results, but still I like having the clock at the end!
Personal:
I spent the entire hour and a half before the race worried about my seed time. I was #32! AH! Nearly everyone I swim with was after me and I know they are faster than me. There were tons of small women that looked like swimmers after me.... What was I thinking! I thought I could swim it in 9 minutes even though Marleen had warned us swimming 50m length is a totally different animal than 25m. She also told me to put in 8:55 that way I'd be at the front of all the 9 minute people. Why didn't I think of that. Definitely a trick to remember. I apologized to the lady directly behind me before we started and then off we went. To my surprise I was only passed by two people. Turns out everyone had under estimated a 50m length pool :p Even the men of our group that started ahead of me finished around the same time I did. There was a small group of 4 or 5 swimmers just behind me by the time I got into the final lane, but they couldn't quite catch me. When I felt a hand on my foot I pushed a little bit harder and manged to keep my lead.
Oh how I hate that run to the bike. Everyone says they hate T2. Not me, T1 is where I have trouble. I think it's because I enjoy being in the water and I am heavier. To suddenly have all that weight forced back on my bones, it's hard to get motivated to run to my bike. My Bike, my new bike! A Fuji Aloha 2.0 This was only my second time to ride her. I was so excited I passed 4 people in the first half a mile. Her ride is smooth, I don't feel like I'm battling my bike. It was wonderful..... until about the third mile. I could tell my shifter was tilted on my left aero bar. I took my arm off it for a second and it sagged. It came loose. Why, oh, why didn't I go over all the bolts and tighten them. D'oh. By mile 7 the right aero bar came loose. Fortunately I had my aero bottle attached to them, so as long as I had one arm on an aero bar they didn't fall forward.
It was a two loop course which did cause some frustration as I was trying to turn back into the college. If the timing mat had been further back from the turn I could have passed comfortably and avoided the slower riders. I couldn't do so without possibly not being read by the mat. I was 6 minutes from first so it's not the end of the world, I didn't lose enough time to make a different, but I wonder if anyone else had that problem. As I took my hands off my aero bars coming into transition, the aero bottle started dragging on the wheel. It was frustrating, but an easy fix once the race was over. I'll forgive Tigress (She's orange and black and my transition towel has tigers on it. I know I'm such a girl sometimes :p).
The road was fine for barefooting. I tried to not think about racing anyone. I only counted one woman ahead of me so I know I wasn't paying attention since there should have been at least three. The girl who got first is also a swimmer with the OCCC triclub. I was a bit worried toward the end that she would pass me, so I tried to hurry. I shaved 4 second off my best 5K time. Maybe I need to ride my bike before all races. It seems to give me better run times. Last week she beat me by 10 minutes, this week it was 6, I hope to close that gap a bit more next time. She's incredibly athletic and smaller than me. She's been at this for 3 years, has a beautiful cervelo and from the sounds of it puts in a lot of time on it. She's also completed an Ironman. Honestly, I'm surprised I'm this close to her time. I know she'll probably always beat me, but I like to have a goal!
I could hardly contain my excitement about being second! It's so affirming to see all those bodies you don't think you can compete with and to come in second!!?? I was on cloud nine. Then I realized that night.... Ironman Kansas was this weekend..... all the real athletes (minus the girl that came in first) aren't in the state, D'oh.
2/52 females. That's right second overall! Woohoo!!
1/7 age group
500mSwim: 11:32 (I know, sad isn't it :p) T1: 1:16 12.5mBike: 39:53 T2: 0:25 5kRun: 25:21
Bike Course and Elevation
New Sprint PR and 5K PR for me! Yeah!!
Pros (I know I'm a little biased since this is my home pool):
Friendly volunteers
The lanes are huge! It is a 50m by 25y pool. You basically get 5, 5 yard lanes. They started each swimmer 15 seconds apart which was perfect in my opinion.
Both bike and run course were flat. I did hear some people who are mainly runners remark about the hills, so I guess my definition of hill has changed. I'll try to post the elevation profile later, the accuracy may not be wonderful since my aero bar was rubbing, doing strange things to it.
For once someone got the water stops right! One maybe a quarter mile in that could be hit 4 times (you ran past it into a turnaround and back past it before heading to the main turnaround) and then one at the halfway point! Perfect!!
The medals are nice. I liked the shirt, I had seen the previous year's shirt and was not that impressed, I didn't like the colors. This year's was much better, might even be my new favorite race shirt.
Cons:
Portland road is filled with potholes and is a very poor road to ride on. I'm sort of used to that in Oklahoma, but it is probably among the worst 10 roads I've been on.
The choice of road leading in and out of the college for the bike created a bottle neck.
I felt like the course was marked well, but I did hear of some people taking wrong turns.
Where was the clock at the finish??? Even if it's a staggered start I can do the math to know what time to take off! I wanted to know what my time was when I finished. It didn't take him too long to start posting results, but still I like having the clock at the end!
Personal:
I spent the entire hour and a half before the race worried about my seed time. I was #32! AH! Nearly everyone I swim with was after me and I know they are faster than me. There were tons of small women that looked like swimmers after me.... What was I thinking! I thought I could swim it in 9 minutes even though Marleen had warned us swimming 50m length is a totally different animal than 25m. She also told me to put in 8:55 that way I'd be at the front of all the 9 minute people. Why didn't I think of that. Definitely a trick to remember. I apologized to the lady directly behind me before we started and then off we went. To my surprise I was only passed by two people. Turns out everyone had under estimated a 50m length pool :p Even the men of our group that started ahead of me finished around the same time I did. There was a small group of 4 or 5 swimmers just behind me by the time I got into the final lane, but they couldn't quite catch me. When I felt a hand on my foot I pushed a little bit harder and manged to keep my lead.
Oh how I hate that run to the bike. Everyone says they hate T2. Not me, T1 is where I have trouble. I think it's because I enjoy being in the water and I am heavier. To suddenly have all that weight forced back on my bones, it's hard to get motivated to run to my bike. My Bike, my new bike! A Fuji Aloha 2.0 This was only my second time to ride her. I was so excited I passed 4 people in the first half a mile. Her ride is smooth, I don't feel like I'm battling my bike. It was wonderful..... until about the third mile. I could tell my shifter was tilted on my left aero bar. I took my arm off it for a second and it sagged. It came loose. Why, oh, why didn't I go over all the bolts and tighten them. D'oh. By mile 7 the right aero bar came loose. Fortunately I had my aero bottle attached to them, so as long as I had one arm on an aero bar they didn't fall forward.
It was a two loop course which did cause some frustration as I was trying to turn back into the college. If the timing mat had been further back from the turn I could have passed comfortably and avoided the slower riders. I couldn't do so without possibly not being read by the mat. I was 6 minutes from first so it's not the end of the world, I didn't lose enough time to make a different, but I wonder if anyone else had that problem. As I took my hands off my aero bars coming into transition, the aero bottle started dragging on the wheel. It was frustrating, but an easy fix once the race was over. I'll forgive Tigress (She's orange and black and my transition towel has tigers on it. I know I'm such a girl sometimes :p).
The road was fine for barefooting. I tried to not think about racing anyone. I only counted one woman ahead of me so I know I wasn't paying attention since there should have been at least three. The girl who got first is also a swimmer with the OCCC triclub. I was a bit worried toward the end that she would pass me, so I tried to hurry. I shaved 4 second off my best 5K time. Maybe I need to ride my bike before all races. It seems to give me better run times. Last week she beat me by 10 minutes, this week it was 6, I hope to close that gap a bit more next time. She's incredibly athletic and smaller than me. She's been at this for 3 years, has a beautiful cervelo and from the sounds of it puts in a lot of time on it. She's also completed an Ironman. Honestly, I'm surprised I'm this close to her time. I know she'll probably always beat me, but I like to have a goal!
I could hardly contain my excitement about being second! It's so affirming to see all those bodies you don't think you can compete with and to come in second!!?? I was on cloud nine. Then I realized that night.... Ironman Kansas was this weekend..... all the real athletes (minus the girl that came in first) aren't in the state, D'oh.
Route 66 Olympic Triathlon
2:59:35
1/4 Athena (Woohoo! First place!!)
3/7 age group
18/46 Females
1500mSwim: 32:53 T1: 1:19 40KBike: 1:27:11 T2: 0:44 10KRun: 57:31
Elevation and Course for Bike. x2
Elevation and Course for Run. x2
Pros:
Water bottles at the turn around for the bike. I needed that water, happy to have it.
The whole course is pretty straight forward and well marked.
Lots of eager volunteers, lots of cheering and smiling faces.
Nice shirt, nice license plate awards.
Food!! Hot dogs, chips and cookies afterwards, N'om....
Cons:
Male and female started the swim together, lots of bumper bodies.
Lots of traffic on old Route 66.
The bike course is bumpy, lots of crevices to ride around.
First water stop was less than a tenth of a mile into the run. It would have been more useful about a half mile in so it could be used four times instead of two.
The awards were license plates, cool, but since I don't plan on putting it on my car I think I'd rather had a medal to let my kids play with.
Swim: Be prepared you cannot see in this water. I mean it. Not a bit, you can't see your arms or hands. It is all greenish brown. I heard a lot of out of towners talking about this on the second day, they couldn't believe how murky it was.
Bike: It is not flat, but not hilly. It's kind of hard to explain. If you are from around here, it's not Hefner, but it's not Edmond or Norman.
Run: Flat, easy winding road. For the barefooters or minimalists among us, not the best paved road. Asphalt, the first mile is not too bad, but the further you get the more protruding rocks there are and a few gravel roads that meet it so some debris to avoid.
I loved this race. This morning found me in the right frame of mind. I put aside my bike envy from the day before, determined to have the best race I could possibly have. My first Olympic Tri and I was going to have a good time! They announced a few minutes before start that the men and women would start together, all the women let out a groan. Seriously, it was funny. The first trip out was too crowded. Climbing on people, getting kicked. I started to go off course again after the first turn around, found it was less crowded, so tried to keep my distance without going too far off course. The beach run, blah, only one person who got out of the water at the same time actually ran. The rest of us walked our way back into the water. In fact the 10 or so of us took the time to yell at a guy swimming the completely wrong direction! I think we all felt the same way about getting back in, but in we went. I stayed far left of the buoys and managed to not run into anyone until the turn around. I decided I lost too much time trying to stay out of the crowd. I hugged the buoys and sure enough began climbing over more people.
The bike was no different than the day before, same route, same hair pin turn, same gradual hills, only twice the fun! I heard two people fell on the turnaround, thankfully I was not one of them. That good rhythm set in about the 9 mile mark, just to disappear when I dropped my chain at the bottom of the hill in the 12th mile. So frustrating, my legs never felt as good after that. It took too much out of them to climb that hill with no momentum. Plenty of blue haired old folks headed for sunday church around to try to hit cyclists. There were a few close calls that I saw including one of my own. I wish they could close parts of the route to traffic. I heard there was even a farm combine blocking the race at one point. Glad I didn't have to deal with that! My cycling buddies cheered me on as I glided into transition. I needed the encouragement, it made my legs lighter to see them. My thigh felt off going into the run, fortunately it eased up after about a mile. Nearly ran off wearing my helmet. Took a long pause to decide whether to take my vibrams with me as backup or not. Glad I decided not to, if I'd taken the time to put them on I wouldn't have got my goal time!
I took the time to put on my camelbak, glad I did. Worth the extra weight, I didn't fill it completely, but I managed to drink every bit of it. The half way point handed out Heed, made by Hammer.. I think, pretty good. Never tried it before I'll have to do some research on it. Hot, from beginning to end. I expected it since the last 15 minutes the day before were hot. After I hit 4.6 miles I took it up a notch and ran harder. In the last mile the pavement started to heat up, not pleasant for the feet, but nothing like Redbud. I started to feel a chill, knowing enough that it is a bad sign I pulled back a little bit, but when I saw that clock under 3 hours I ran as hard as I could. I knew it would be close, but I was going to get my 3 hours!!! Then as I put on the breaks, crossing the finish, I heard my husband calling my name. He surprised me with my three girls at the finish. I fell to the ground and hugged my babies. Not that I needed to fall to the ground, I was so happy to see my babies I just wanted to lay there and hug them all at once. I cannot explain the feeling of crossing the finish line. I set a goal and I did it. I wasn't disappointed in my performance or any part of the race. I felt so great to meet a goal. I usually set my goals above what I'm capable of. It was wonderful. I cannot wait to do another Olympic distance.
1/4 Athena (Woohoo! First place!!)
3/7 age group
18/46 Females
1500mSwim: 32:53 T1: 1:19 40KBike: 1:27:11 T2: 0:44 10KRun: 57:31
Elevation and Course for Bike. x2
Elevation and Course for Run. x2
Pros:
Water bottles at the turn around for the bike. I needed that water, happy to have it.
The whole course is pretty straight forward and well marked.
Lots of eager volunteers, lots of cheering and smiling faces.
Nice shirt, nice license plate awards.
Food!! Hot dogs, chips and cookies afterwards, N'om....
Cons:
Male and female started the swim together, lots of bumper bodies.
Lots of traffic on old Route 66.
The bike course is bumpy, lots of crevices to ride around.
First water stop was less than a tenth of a mile into the run. It would have been more useful about a half mile in so it could be used four times instead of two.
The awards were license plates, cool, but since I don't plan on putting it on my car I think I'd rather had a medal to let my kids play with.
Swim: Be prepared you cannot see in this water. I mean it. Not a bit, you can't see your arms or hands. It is all greenish brown. I heard a lot of out of towners talking about this on the second day, they couldn't believe how murky it was.
Bike: It is not flat, but not hilly. It's kind of hard to explain. If you are from around here, it's not Hefner, but it's not Edmond or Norman.
Run: Flat, easy winding road. For the barefooters or minimalists among us, not the best paved road. Asphalt, the first mile is not too bad, but the further you get the more protruding rocks there are and a few gravel roads that meet it so some debris to avoid.
I loved this race. This morning found me in the right frame of mind. I put aside my bike envy from the day before, determined to have the best race I could possibly have. My first Olympic Tri and I was going to have a good time! They announced a few minutes before start that the men and women would start together, all the women let out a groan. Seriously, it was funny. The first trip out was too crowded. Climbing on people, getting kicked. I started to go off course again after the first turn around, found it was less crowded, so tried to keep my distance without going too far off course. The beach run, blah, only one person who got out of the water at the same time actually ran. The rest of us walked our way back into the water. In fact the 10 or so of us took the time to yell at a guy swimming the completely wrong direction! I think we all felt the same way about getting back in, but in we went. I stayed far left of the buoys and managed to not run into anyone until the turn around. I decided I lost too much time trying to stay out of the crowd. I hugged the buoys and sure enough began climbing over more people.
The bike was no different than the day before, same route, same hair pin turn, same gradual hills, only twice the fun! I heard two people fell on the turnaround, thankfully I was not one of them. That good rhythm set in about the 9 mile mark, just to disappear when I dropped my chain at the bottom of the hill in the 12th mile. So frustrating, my legs never felt as good after that. It took too much out of them to climb that hill with no momentum. Plenty of blue haired old folks headed for sunday church around to try to hit cyclists. There were a few close calls that I saw including one of my own. I wish they could close parts of the route to traffic. I heard there was even a farm combine blocking the race at one point. Glad I didn't have to deal with that! My cycling buddies cheered me on as I glided into transition. I needed the encouragement, it made my legs lighter to see them. My thigh felt off going into the run, fortunately it eased up after about a mile. Nearly ran off wearing my helmet. Took a long pause to decide whether to take my vibrams with me as backup or not. Glad I decided not to, if I'd taken the time to put them on I wouldn't have got my goal time!
I took the time to put on my camelbak, glad I did. Worth the extra weight, I didn't fill it completely, but I managed to drink every bit of it. The half way point handed out Heed, made by Hammer.. I think, pretty good. Never tried it before I'll have to do some research on it. Hot, from beginning to end. I expected it since the last 15 minutes the day before were hot. After I hit 4.6 miles I took it up a notch and ran harder. In the last mile the pavement started to heat up, not pleasant for the feet, but nothing like Redbud. I started to feel a chill, knowing enough that it is a bad sign I pulled back a little bit, but when I saw that clock under 3 hours I ran as hard as I could. I knew it would be close, but I was going to get my 3 hours!!! Then as I put on the breaks, crossing the finish, I heard my husband calling my name. He surprised me with my three girls at the finish. I fell to the ground and hugged my babies. Not that I needed to fall to the ground, I was so happy to see my babies I just wanted to lay there and hug them all at once. I cannot explain the feeling of crossing the finish line. I set a goal and I did it. I wasn't disappointed in my performance or any part of the race. I felt so great to meet a goal. I usually set my goals above what I'm capable of. It was wonderful. I cannot wait to do another Olympic distance.
Route 66 Sprint Triathlon
1:26:20
2/10 Athena (22 seconds from first, d'oh)
3/16 Age group
26/55 Females
500mSwim: 11:11 T1: 0:57 20K Bike: 45:24 T2: 0:48 5KRun: 28:03
Course and Elevation for Bike.
Course and Elevation for Run.
Pros:
The whole course is pretty straight forward and well marked.
Lots of eager volunteers, lots of cheering and smiling faces.
Nice shirt, nice license plate awards.
Food!! Hot dogs, chips and cookies afterwards, N'om....
Cons:
First water stop was less than a tenth of a mile into the run..... ? I guess that would be useful for those who didn't carry water on the bike, but I felt like it would have been more useful about a half mile in so it could be used twice.
The awards were license plates, cool, but since I don't plan on putting it on my car I think I'd have rather had a medal to let my kids play with.
The bike course is bumpy, lots of crevices to ride around.
Review for those interested in doing this event:
Swim: Be prepared you cannot see in this water. I mean it. Not a bit, you can't see your arms or hands. It is all greenish brown. I heard a lot of out of towners talking about this on the second day, they couldn't believe how murky it was.
Bike: It is not flat, but not hilly. It's kind of hard to explain. If you are from around here, it's not Hefner, but it's not Edmond or Norman.
Run: Flat, easy winding road. For the barefooters or minimalists among us, not the best paved road. Asphalt, the first mile is not too bad, but the further you get the more protruding rocks there are and a few gravel roads that meet it so some debris to avoid.
Lessons learned: sighting is very important.... Not only does it keep you from going amazingly off course, but it should also keep you from running into kayaks. Both of which made for a crappily awful swim. I should not have taken so long. I read somewhere once that you should approach each part of a triathlon separately. Focus on swim as if that's all you were doing, go into T1, put on a new face and come out fresh and as if biking was all you were doing, same for T2 and the run. I repeated this mantra to myself to no avail. All I could think about for the rest of the race is how terribly off course I went in the swim. All for what? 2 minutes? Not worth dwelling on. I had fun, but had a hard time getting over my mistake. I wanted to be close to 1:15, I was disappointed. Then I thought I had first in Athena! It was posted I saw it, yeah!!! Only to realize after I stuck around an hour and a half for the awards that there had been an athena in the last swim wave that beat me..... grrr..... Not my best day. I didn't feel great on the bike, I didn't feel great on the run. I was thinking about Sunday and the Olympic through most of this race. I may skip the sprint next year, volunteer perhaps. I don't feel like I gave everything I had to this race. I did pass a lot of people on the run which felt pretty good!
2/10 Athena (22 seconds from first, d'oh)
3/16 Age group
26/55 Females
500mSwim: 11:11 T1: 0:57 20K Bike: 45:24 T2: 0:48 5KRun: 28:03
Course and Elevation for Bike.
Course and Elevation for Run.
Pros:
The whole course is pretty straight forward and well marked.
Lots of eager volunteers, lots of cheering and smiling faces.
Nice shirt, nice license plate awards.
Food!! Hot dogs, chips and cookies afterwards, N'om....
Cons:
First water stop was less than a tenth of a mile into the run..... ? I guess that would be useful for those who didn't carry water on the bike, but I felt like it would have been more useful about a half mile in so it could be used twice.
The awards were license plates, cool, but since I don't plan on putting it on my car I think I'd have rather had a medal to let my kids play with.
The bike course is bumpy, lots of crevices to ride around.
Review for those interested in doing this event:
Swim: Be prepared you cannot see in this water. I mean it. Not a bit, you can't see your arms or hands. It is all greenish brown. I heard a lot of out of towners talking about this on the second day, they couldn't believe how murky it was.
Bike: It is not flat, but not hilly. It's kind of hard to explain. If you are from around here, it's not Hefner, but it's not Edmond or Norman.
Run: Flat, easy winding road. For the barefooters or minimalists among us, not the best paved road. Asphalt, the first mile is not too bad, but the further you get the more protruding rocks there are and a few gravel roads that meet it so some debris to avoid.
Lessons learned: sighting is very important.... Not only does it keep you from going amazingly off course, but it should also keep you from running into kayaks. Both of which made for a crappily awful swim. I should not have taken so long. I read somewhere once that you should approach each part of a triathlon separately. Focus on swim as if that's all you were doing, go into T1, put on a new face and come out fresh and as if biking was all you were doing, same for T2 and the run. I repeated this mantra to myself to no avail. All I could think about for the rest of the race is how terribly off course I went in the swim. All for what? 2 minutes? Not worth dwelling on. I had fun, but had a hard time getting over my mistake. I wanted to be close to 1:15, I was disappointed. Then I thought I had first in Athena! It was posted I saw it, yeah!!! Only to realize after I stuck around an hour and a half for the awards that there had been an athena in the last swim wave that beat me..... grrr..... Not my best day. I didn't feel great on the bike, I didn't feel great on the run. I was thinking about Sunday and the Olympic through most of this race. I may skip the sprint next year, volunteer perhaps. I don't feel like I gave everything I had to this race. I did pass a lot of people on the run which felt pretty good!
Route 66 Splash N Dash
26:01
1st in age group!! Woohoo!!
6/16 female
31/55 overall
470mSwim: 9:32 T1: 0:18 2mRun:16:09
This was a great, small event. I think things like this would be great for a beginner. Someone just starting out in triathlons, but not sure if they are ready for a sprint yet. The atmosphere cannot be matched. It's a bunch of friends getting together for a group workout then a cookout. The tri okc people are friendly and entertaining! They have splash n dash events every month in the summer, this was one of only two sanctioned SnD's for the year, the rest are free. Definitely check out Tri OKC and show up for one of these things!
Okay, so I only got first in age group because the real 1st place was top female. Does that still count? Felt great. I did have butterflies in my stomach at the start, but they disappeared once the swim was underway. Honestly have nothing bad to say about this one, it's hard to find something bad about an extremely short event like this, especially when they feed you afterwards :) I think there was water on the run.... I don't remember now, the weekend has melted my mind, more on the rest of the Route 66 events to come.
1st in age group!! Woohoo!!
6/16 female
31/55 overall
470mSwim: 9:32 T1: 0:18 2mRun:16:09
This was a great, small event. I think things like this would be great for a beginner. Someone just starting out in triathlons, but not sure if they are ready for a sprint yet. The atmosphere cannot be matched. It's a bunch of friends getting together for a group workout then a cookout. The tri okc people are friendly and entertaining! They have splash n dash events every month in the summer, this was one of only two sanctioned SnD's for the year, the rest are free. Definitely check out Tri OKC and show up for one of these things!
Okay, so I only got first in age group because the real 1st place was top female. Does that still count? Felt great. I did have butterflies in my stomach at the start, but they disappeared once the swim was underway. Honestly have nothing bad to say about this one, it's hard to find something bad about an extremely short event like this, especially when they feed you afterwards :) I think there was water on the run.... I don't remember now, the weekend has melted my mind, more on the rest of the Route 66 events to come.
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