My 1st Tri in Preparation for the big one....

Saturday night after making sure that all the light in my car worked I headed over to Suzie’s house from where we would leave Friday morning to head to Corpus Christi. 2 days later we would be participating in the 25th Corpus Chriti Tri!We watched Juno, ate chips and salsa and had a beer- tapering had begun. :) I am not sure Corona and chips and salsa are part of tapering, but it was our firt time ever to tapper.

Hahaha

Friday at 5:30am we were out the door and on the road. Amazingly the trip went by very fast and Bianca clued us in about directions to Texas A & M Corpus where I had my informal interview with Cristina. She was awesome and the Uni was really cool, but being far from Austin is not something I am ready to do in the near future…

Without getting into the surreal moments that took place that weekend I am going to skip to Sunday 4:30 alarms start going off and I am up like a hyperactive sun!

We eat some power bars, check and double check out stuff and head out to the playa with all out stuff. People are already there!!! It was a small tri but to my surprise there were a bunch of pro’s. I think we might have been the only tri virgins in the whole place!!!The few people I spoke to had 10 or more tri’s under there belt with a few ironmen walking around. We kept going… We got colored on and set up our transitions, my family arrived and we took some pics and then put on wet suits and got ready for the swim in the sea…

We were both in the third wave and I have to say I was nervous!! I found five dollars floating in the water!!! I had heard of jelly fish and currents and the uneasiness of the swim, the fact that for an easy 200 meters you could see people walking with the water to their bellies meant that something was hard. The shot gun went off and I started to run in, I felt it get deep to swim, did four stokes and had to stand up again, running again, then once more in the water ended up going to the right and the swimming started. The fist leg against the current was not too fun, the second across it was better and coming back in to shore was a blast. My transition went smooth but when I got on the bike and I had to clip in on a hill I screwed up because my gear was not in the easiest so I lost some time there, then the road was ahead of me …. I sang. Heading in to T2 was good too, I was not dying and I hadn’t killed myself in the previous sports because I wasn’t sure how it would have turned out… live or not live.

I started the run and the rest is history.

Conclusions:
I could have has faster times but it was my fist and I rather make sure I could survive it, I did!
I won 3rd place in my age division and I have a medal to prove it!
I need to practice more on my bike- not spin.
About four years ago I did a 5K, in this event I did a 5k and after a swim and a bike I beat the old time!!! finally I loved it, and I am not longer a tri virgin... Let the whoring begin!!

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