SMP Recap

Another early morning... Another triathlon finish! Its hard to believe that this was only my third race!

Shawnee Mission Park... hilly as all hell. But we had great great great weather today!

The swim: Seemed like a lot further than 1000m. The water temperature was great, but I struggled through the swim. It was hard to get my breathing and heart rate to mellow out. Luckily, I was able to just "pull through" and get to land!

The bike: I am so happy with how this went!! Every other time I've rode at SMP, I've struggled a LOT on the dam hill. My heart rate goes up to about 160-165 and the asthma kicks in. Its really not fun. Amazingly, today, it was hard to get up the hill - but I did great! I averaged about 17 mph over the four laps. And riding in aero on the flat part was really comfortable. Hooray!!

The run: Coulda, shoulda, woulda. My stomach was so upset during the run. A pit stop couldn't even help me. It ended up being a lot slower than I wanted, but there really wasn't anything I could do about it.

I finished just shy of 2:30 which is what I wanted to do, so I guess I'm happy. Not my best race overall, but it was fun. And of course, the KC Multisport after-party was a good time. Now its back to the grindstone... and I'm going to really work on my nutrition from here til CHI. Wish me luck!

(Somehow I got in the Athena category, so I finished second!)
Trish O'Donnell
26 F Overland Park KS
Swim: 28:02
T1: 3:19
Bike: 64:13 Average pace: 16.8
T2: 1:42
Run: 51:04 Pace: 11:21
Overall: 2:28:19