What wonderful weather we had this past weekend. With a triathlon coming up this Sunday, I spent sat. and sunday working on swimming, biking, and running. On Sat. Pat and I went for a mile swim in the bay and then a 30 minute run. We would have run for longer but I had a work bbq to go to in the afternoon. Sat. night, my apartment had a little party with a theme. People were supposed to dress like executives and secretaries. So a bunch of people stopped by in their monkey suits while a lot of my friends decided to come in what they had been wearing all day. I bore no ill will and actually told them that it was fine. For s&#ts and giggles, I wore an actual monkey suit, with a tie of course. The party lasted long into the morning but I called it a night after 2 glasses of wine around midnight. Had a big training day planned for Sunday and those of you familiar with me know that exercise comes before partying, esp. when a race is coming up. Woke up bright and early Sunday morning to an apt. that looked like a frat house and went down to the bay to get a 45 minute swim in with my triathlon club. Lately seals have been known to bug people as they swim and it's not unheard of for a seal to nip at you. This scares the crap out of me and felt blessed to not encounter a seal although there were a couple close by. After a coffee break, a friend and I got on our bikes, headed over the Golden gate bridge, and whilst going down a hill I hit a pot hole with both wheels. Soon afterwards, my back tire went flat and start fishtailing a bit. Luckily my front tire didn't go flat right away and I was able to brake to a stop. It was my first time having both tires go flat at the same time and I hope it never happens again. Well, that was my weekend in a nutshell with little tidbits of private information left out. Pictures of it all will hopefully follow soon enough.
I have an Olympic Distance triathlon coming up on Sunday and although I've done quite a fews tris over the past couple years, this will be my second olympic distance one. My first ever triathlon was the Ishigaki triathlon which was also an olympic tri. I just looked up my splits and time. My goal for this triathlon will be to improve upon all 3 areas. So for your reference and mine, here are the stats from my first one.
Swim: 30:28, Bike 1:18:00, Run 0:52:22 = Total 2:40:50 ( 1.5 km, 40 km, 10 km)
