Two posts in under a month! Getting back into it!

So, finished the 1st of 3 triathlons this morning. Next 2 are tomorrow.

Today was the SuperSprint Tri of the Chi Tri; 350meter swim, 10k bike, 2.5k run. It was an open water beach start, so you run from the holding area into the water, then swim around some buoys, then come back, and run back up the beach to the bikes. From there you walk/run your bike out of the transition area, mount up, ride, then come back and do the run.

I completed the whole deal in 0:55:36, or 55 minutes and 36 seconds. Pretty good! My times were:

Swim 15:04
Bike 23:27
Run 17:05

That was good enough for 287 out of 590. Just outside the top half. Better than I have finished before. I was ranked

Swim 291/590
Bike 238/590
Run 377/590

You can easily see where my weak spot is!!... running!! lol....

I am doing the Triple Challenge, where I do that race today, and tomorrow I do two races. A Sprint Tri and an Olympic Tri.

So tomorrow at 0600, I start off on the Sprint Tri. That is a 750meter swim, a 22k bike, and a 5k run. Then, I shake it all off, turn everything around, and at 0900 I am back in the water to do an Olympic Distance Triathlon; 1500meter swim, 40K bike, and 10K run.

Total distances for all races is-- 2.6K (1.6 miles) swim, 72K (44.7 miles) bike, and 17.5K (10.9 miles) running.

I should have the Sprint done in about 2 hours, and we will see if I have any steam left for the LONG one... lol... figures...

If you want to track me, there is a racer tracker app for iPhone and Android, under TimeLifeTri; you can enter my bib # or my name to see how I do, and follow my transitions in real time. My bib for the Sprint is #228, my bib for the Olympic is #6229.

Cheer me on from near, or cheer me on from afar....

Scott

taking time....

Ugh, almost 3 months since my last post.

So I had these grand plans that I wanted to do a 1/2 Ironman this season; I will be lucky to get through the ChiTri completely and not make an ass out of myself.

I have mostly been keeping up with my training, but I really tweaked something in my knee on the Race to Mackinac.... actually, sadly, whilst motoring out for the race. There was something fouled on the bow, I went forward, bent down, and felt 'ping!' Awesome. Just awesome. I knew it would not hurt during normal use, and it didn't.. I really flexed it a lot during the early part of the race.

But I knew it would be quite angry with me if I ran on it for any length of time, I could just feel it.

And then it took forever (72 hours, actually,) to get up to the island. This was really slow for us, but we were in good company. Still, I had plans on running around the island (8 miles) Tuesday morning, and there I was, still sailing along at 10am on Tuesday. Sigh.

All excuses, though.

So when I finally did get a chance to run, my knees complained.

7 miles is what I got. For reference, the 1/2 IM is a 1.2 mile swim, a 56 mile bike, and then run a half marathon (12+ miles.) a little after 6 miles, my right knee told me to lighten up.

So, scratch the 1/2 for 2013.

Plans change, that is just the way that it is. Maybe I have a half in my future for 2014. May a full in 2014, since I have no plans on holding back on my training over the autumn this year. I want to keep that feeling, and the strength that goes with regular exercise (sometimes intense exercise.)

Plus, I need to post more... sheesh!

Cheers!

Scott