One Clydesdale’s Journey

Well, I had 2 main goals for the Devil’s Lake triathlon and I managed to hit both of them.

I only mentioned one of them last week, but I had two that I really wanted to accomplish.

The first was to not walk any of the hills. It wasn’t easy, especially since Shelly and I didn’t train on hills as much as we wanted to this past year. But, with sheer determination as my driving force, I was able to climb each one of them with out getting off the bike and walking.

Although, when I got to the top of that first hill I wasn’t to sure why that was such an important goal. In case you aren’t aware of it, the first hill is only about 2 tenths of a mile out of the transition area and is a full mile long.

I still hadn’t caught my breath from the swim.

The second goal was to beat last years time of 2:01 with at least a time of 1:50 or less.

My official time was 1:49:09, I’m pretty happy with that.

Nutrient, as mentioned last week, was still an issue though. I plan for enough calories during the race (I burned 1749), but the hard part was getting it in while still trying to catch my breath. More training is obviously needed.

Later,
John W.
A Clydesdale in training