Today I hooked with a couple of doods who got a really ‘bright’ idea in January of doing the Spirit if Racine Triathlon Sprint. I figured that I’d give it a try and see where the chips fall. My training leading up to this event consisted of mountain biking followed by beer drinking. I figured that the whole swimming and running thing would work itself out on it’s own. We get there by roughly a little after 7 AM and begin to stage our stuff in the rain.
My bike has no business sitting on a rack with a wetsuit and running shoes near it. By the time it was time for us to go it was 9 o’clock and the report was that the water temp was 58 degrees. The buzzer went off and I basically blacked out for 18 minutes (750 meters) and I woke up running on the sand towards the transition area. I made a quick change into the kit and I was off running with the bike in tow and a skyrocketing HR. I couldn’t choke any food down but guys were struggling on the bikes so I thought that I’d get comfy and run it as best as I could. We made the turn roughly 6 miles out and I was starting to feel better and ordered up a smaller cog to turn. Most of the return on the bike was bouncing just over 23 mph. I averaged 21.9 on the bike which seemed to help. Done with the bike I run into the transition area and put on the fresh kicks. As I was running out of the trans area I realized that the legs were both heavy and stressed. The run was uneventful. Prolly more passes gained than were given. It looks like I nailed the 5k run in 23.36 at an average speed of 7.9 mph. When things were done I felt like crap and pulled off a 45th overall out of 300 plus, and of course afterwards we were given some ‘triathelete’ food. I don’t know how those guys stay skinny eating all that junk food. When I found out that they weren’t serving beer. We left.
So tonight with my top 50 finish I’m be rewarded with a trip out to Alpine Valley to hang out with some parrot heads !!!!!!!!
