I absolutely love reading about your tris! You write them so well, I feel like I’m there with you. Thank you.

You’re still my hero.

Bree

Ahhh , thanks Bree! That means a lot!

A day after the tri, i feel a little disappointed, not getting a PR and all,but it’s all in the journey!  and this is all part of that…

I have a few ideas to be faster… but my next goal is the 1/2 Marathon..... Phidippidations World Wide Half (http://www.WorldWideHalf.com) (and kick the couch 5K and Zen 10K) in October.....

It’s funny, how you spend so much time training, expecting, and then the race happens.. and, and you don’t do as you expected you do…

so maybe my diet was wrong, maybe over-trained, maybe I didn’t rest enough, maybe I’m just getting older, maybe I just didn’t train hard enough, eat well enough, sleep well enough, drank too many glasses of wine, maybe I stayed in too high of heart rate while training…

or just maybe…

That is EXACTLY what I was supposed to do (very ZEN), and each experience lead to the next!

so…
I’ll keep training…
and having fun

and keep ‘tri-ing’

Hi Tom,

Now, big warning, I am not in the least bit a runner (my daily runs are 0.7 miles, I’m embarassed to admit it), but just thought I’d share my personal experience. I run the same route every morning, tumble straight out of bed and hit the road, and sometimes I manage to run the whole way, but other days I can’t even make it halfway without a short stop. It seems completely random, so maybe it was just one of those days for you, and you did nothing wrong at all!

Well done and good luck for the next one!

Nienke