Die, Die, must Tri!

Ramblings of a 50 year old training for her 1st triathlon

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What I learned using a one sided truer 1) Hop is a killer! 2) Eyeballing works best. 3) 1mm makes a huge difference. Spent hours getting the feel of it, to be continued tomorrow.

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At last, the one toy I’ve always wanted but the price was never right, until now! Plus this is a cool looking one. Can anyone guess what this is?

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My pootpoot with her new toy💗🏅

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My girl and I on our ride home.

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On the ferry at last!! Soooo tired.

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The death ascent on the Verrazano. I walked.

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Starving!

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Rider Assist to the rescue! Thank you thank you!!

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A flat at mile 0, what are the chances?! All that triathlon training for preparing for disaster and treating that imposter appropriately. Thank you Ride Assist volunteers!

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At the start!

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Setting out on our journey.

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Always wanted to ride the 5 Boro, finally doing it! With tri-chick!! Weather’s gonna suck a little bit but no matter, ride’s on. Scotch guarded everything!

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I’ve “convinced” a new team member at work to tri with me in 2019, sucker mwahahahaha! We fist-bumped so it’s official. I guess I forgot to post my 2016 results so here it is. I wanted some context as we will be registering for the Mighty Mini-Man, he has a year to prep. After he fist-bumped me, he asked “How many hours do I have in between from 1 activity to the next?”. THAT was singularly the funniest thing I’ve heard all year.

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Bike inspection

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Lost the bubble wrap and elbow-knee pads. Wobbly but riding! My form is so lopsided, my left knee turns in so much! Will try to correct, probably why I wobble so much!

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Don’t Cha!

I was able to bike-roller pedal my way through the entire song, a whole 4 minutes, progress!!