Wordless Wednesday

 

Wordless Wednesday

 

My 9th Runaversary

 Today I’m celebrating my 9th Runaversary. Usually I would celebrate by running miles, 9 in this case, but I can’t do that this year. I will be running a couple of miles tomorrow, although that’s not quite the same!

Instead, I will celebrate with 9 (or 15) pictures from past running events. This knee injury may be winning the battle,  but it won’t win the war!!

 

Wordless Wednesday

Ramblin Rose Virtual Triathlon

Yesterday, I finished my very first triathlon.... virtually. This is something I have wanted to do for several years, and every year, something would happen to stop me from participating.

The first year, I had a ten mile run for marathon training the day before and when I woke up on race day, I was exhausted. I didn’t want to get injured, so I DNSd it. I’m still conflicted about that decision.

Last year, I registered, I trained again, and then a hurricane cane through and they cancelled it. You could defer to a future date that year, but I was already racing that weekend, So it didn’t work out.

This was going to be my year.

I was going to finally do a triathlon.

Sigh.

For obvious reasons, the race went virtual. You could do it all at once, one leg a day, so long as you finished it in 72 hours. This felt like a cop out for me, so I decided I would do it all on a weekday. As I looked at my week, I realized that wouldn’t work either. With my knee injury, the day after a run is often a hot achey mess. 

I decided to split it up between two days. 

I did my long run on Saturday morning with my group, and that was 6 miles. The race is a sprint so I needed to swim 250 yards, run 2 miles, and ride 9 miles. 

My run portion was done, but since I had water duty, I had to hang around until the marathoners finished their miles, which could be anywhere between 10 and 20. I ended up leaving around 10:30 and was home after 11. 

My neighborhood pool would already be full, so I knew I would have to wait until Sunday. I decided I wold do the swim, come home and have breakfast, and then do the ride.

I hadn’t practiced all summer because our pool had restrictions at first, and then there were some issues with cleanliness. They finally got their act together, so at the minute the pool opened, I was walking in to do my laps. I’m so glad we did it this way, because when we left, the pool was starting to fill up!

The pool portion was a hot mess. I am not a good swimmer, which is why I’ve been avoiding triathlons. This event is perfect, because even at an actual event, you’re swimming in a pool! 

I went home, had some breakfast, and then hit the Peloton for my ride. I made sure to pick a challenging ride to mimic the hills I would have ridden in the race.

It just about killed me, but I finished! Whew! My knee is still a hot mess today, but now it is just stiff, and not really painful. 

I am waiting on my swag,  but here are my stats: