So my first tri was this past Sunday, and overall it went pretty well.
My swim wasn't the best. After getting jostled at the start and swallowing a generous amount of Hudson water (which was surprisingly not gross!!), I just had a really hard time getting in the groove. Plus, 1500m swim looks REALLY FAR when you're going point to point (hehe, who knew? ;) ), and seeing the finish barge as a tiny speck in the distance when I was already winded kind of messed with my head. Oh well. Thanks to the current I still made it out of the water in 28 minutes. The winning guy did the swim in TWELVE MINUTES. Unreal.
My bike went pretty much as I expected, and the course was suuuuuper fun and fast. It was an out-and-back on a closed-to-traffic West Side Highway, with lots of rolling hills. I easily went faster on my bike on Sunday than I've ever biked before -- it's hard to find places around here where you can really let it rip, with traffic and pedestrians in the park and everything. Just a really really fun ride, which I managed in 1:38.
My run was ok. I wasn't expecting anything great here given that running is my weakest of the 3, and I was pretty exhausted going into it. Plus the run was just through the loop in the park, so there wasn't the "oh fun I'm on a closed road!!!" novelty factor. Thankfully the course was a little short -- 6.12 miles according to my GPS, counting 1 or 2 minutes before the course running out of transition -- and I finished in 1:04.
Overall I was happy with how I did -- 3:17 total. Nothing spectacular, but a pretty solid first effort, I think. Also, lots of room for improvement!! I will definitely being doing more tris, and I will definitely be doing this race again. It was a great course and I love NYC, so it's kind of a no brainer.
Some pics:
One of the two transition areas:
There were just over 4000 athletes this year.
Looking north up the swim course towards the GW bridge before there were any swimmers in it:
My friend and I showing off our tri numbers post-race:
Note the Ski Diva visor! ;)
The 3 of us at the bar afterwards:
If you're interested, here's the full set of pics my friend's boyfriend took:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eckenrpe/sets/72157621755405477/
And here are the photos of me from the race photographers:
https://www.brightroom.com/view_user_event.asp?EVENTID=47511&BIB=1369
My swim wasn't the best. After getting jostled at the start and swallowing a generous amount of Hudson water (which was surprisingly not gross!!), I just had a really hard time getting in the groove. Plus, 1500m swim looks REALLY FAR when you're going point to point (hehe, who knew? ;) ), and seeing the finish barge as a tiny speck in the distance when I was already winded kind of messed with my head. Oh well. Thanks to the current I still made it out of the water in 28 minutes. The winning guy did the swim in TWELVE MINUTES. Unreal.
My bike went pretty much as I expected, and the course was suuuuuper fun and fast. It was an out-and-back on a closed-to-traffic West Side Highway, with lots of rolling hills. I easily went faster on my bike on Sunday than I've ever biked before -- it's hard to find places around here where you can really let it rip, with traffic and pedestrians in the park and everything. Just a really really fun ride, which I managed in 1:38.
My run was ok. I wasn't expecting anything great here given that running is my weakest of the 3, and I was pretty exhausted going into it. Plus the run was just through the loop in the park, so there wasn't the "oh fun I'm on a closed road!!!" novelty factor. Thankfully the course was a little short -- 6.12 miles according to my GPS, counting 1 or 2 minutes before the course running out of transition -- and I finished in 1:04.
Overall I was happy with how I did -- 3:17 total. Nothing spectacular, but a pretty solid first effort, I think. Also, lots of room for improvement!! I will definitely being doing more tris, and I will definitely be doing this race again. It was a great course and I love NYC, so it's kind of a no brainer.
Some pics:
One of the two transition areas:
There were just over 4000 athletes this year.
Looking north up the swim course towards the GW bridge before there were any swimmers in it:
My friend and I showing off our tri numbers post-race:
Note the Ski Diva visor! ;)
The 3 of us at the bar afterwards:
If you're interested, here's the full set of pics my friend's boyfriend took:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eckenrpe/sets/72157621755405477/
And here are the photos of me from the race photographers:
https://www.brightroom.com/view_user_event.asp?EVENTID=47511&BIB=1369