Jack's Generic Triathlon was today. It was my second tri of the summer since Arizona. It was a good day. Part of the fun was the large number of T3er's out there. I was a bit baffled by my race day preparations. I took everything so lightly. Usually I feel like I stress out over my preparations. I lay everything out and double check all my equipment. Now,, I just start putting stuff in my backpack and head out to the race. I guess it is normal and that this what comes with being well prepared. Who knows. The race went well.. I finished in 1 hour 23 minutes. I am sort of ,,, almost,, pretty close to being happy with my results. I am slower than last year by a minute or two, and as usual, I am normal. Or, I should say that I am average. I always come out in the middle of the pack in my age group.
I was inspired by a noticeably larger number of kids in the triathlon. I may just be that I am able to take more of the event in and am noticing the things that have always been there but it seemed like there were a lot of teenagers in the event. When I was a teenager, there weren't any triathlons and even if there were, I probably would not have been interested in them. It was nice to see the change.
Back to me,,, I am looking forward to kicking off the organized training for Arizona.
This week, I need to compress some training that I did not get in due to the race. On top of that, I am supposed to go out of town so that will throw a monkey wrench into my training. It is up to me to pull it off.. everything else is just excuses.
Nice result Jim. Was a fun race yesterday. I was a few minutes slower than last year too, but on a whole lot less training.
ReplyDeleteI had a similarly relaxed attitude to getting prepared for the sprint. I can see the difference in about an extra minute this year in transition... :)