Fair-play du jour Triathlon de Santander jeudi après-midi James Teagle 🇬🇧 se trompe de chemin dans la dernière ligne droite. Diego Mentrida 🇪🇸 le dépasse, puis ... l’attend il était devant moi toute la course, il méritait de me battre." 👏👏
🙌 The fair play gesture of the day! Santander Triathlon Thursday September 24 2020 afternoon. James Teagle 🇬🇧 takes the wrong path on the home stretch. Diego Mentrida 🇪🇸 passes him, then ... waits for him: "He was in front of me the whole race, he deserved to beat me." 👏👏
Lundi 26 juillet 2021, le départ du triathlon masculin aux Jeux olympiques de Tokyo a été donné alors qu'un bateau d'une équipe de télévision se trouvait encore devant le ponton, bloquant ainsi la moitié des participants. Il a donc fallu rappeler tout le monde pour de nouveau lancer la course.
On Monday July 26, 2021, the start of the men's triathlon at the Tokyo Olympics was given while a boat from a television team was still in front of the pontoon, thus blocking half of the participants it was therefore necessary to remind everyone to start the race again
I’m not normally one for fitness fanatics, but Iron Man was definitely my type with his dark hair, tanned skin and green eyes.
Admittedly, he did seem to spend a lot of time doing triathlons and going on 100km bike rides and 40km runs, but surely this shouldn't be a deal breaker, however strange it seemed to me?
He offered to organise our own personal bar crawl around Waterloo (he knew the area pretty well as he used to live there), plus this was a clear sign he still drank alcohol so I agreed to meet him and we arranged a time and a place.
I met him at Waterloo Station and at first glance, I didn't fancy him. He was wearing a long, dramatic black coat, and sounded a lot posher than I thought he would be. He also came across as a bit awkward, over the top and try hard. Determined to keep an open mind, I pushed it to the back of my head and concentrated on enjoying our bar crawl he’d so thoroughly organised.
Obviously one thing I hadn't thought of... a bar crawl meant we were getting very drunk.
So drunk in fact, that at the end of the night when we were walking back to Waterloo station he decided to be what I can only assume he thought was spontaneous and romantic, pinned my wrists back behind my head against a wall and snogged me.
I wouldn't normally use the word snog, but this was far from a kiss. I was so conscious of how we looked, not only to people passing by but to the police car which slowed down considerably when driving past us. I tried not to look pleadingly their way, and telepathically begged them not to make a scene and get out of their car.
Thankfully, they drove on.
I eventually gained enough courage to push him away, laughed it off, and ran for my tube which I insisted was the last one of the night that I absolutely HAD to catch.
He texted me asking if I wanted to go for tapas for our second date, I politely but firmly declined.
Distance: Sprint (750 meter swim, 17 mile bike, 3.1 mile run)
Report:
I was nervous about going into this tri. It had been 4 weeks since IM St. George and 4 weeks since I did any sort of exercise. I pulled something in the back of my right leg that wasn’t healing as fast as I wanted and I fell into a post IM funk that consisted of coming home and complaining about my injury until bed time.
Swim:
The water was about 67 degrees F which, with a wetsuit, felt fine. My excitement to get moving again took over and I sprinted out of the finish line before slowing it down. I was the 3rd fastest swimmer in my age group which was awesome.
Here I am looking PUMPED to start!
Cycle:
Oh boy. This is where lack of practice in the last 4 weeks really caught up to me. I’m a slowwwww road cyclist since I only started road cycling less than a year ago. But I was EXCEPTIONALLY slow in this race and the hills killed me. The worst part is that there weren’t really many hills, and I kept thinking about how a month ago, I would have been able to handle them much better. I did the St. George Snow Canyon climb, goshdarnit!
Run:
Because of my leg, I did a walk/run which was surprisingly pleasant. The run was flat and around the reservoir. A 77-year-old man smoked me, and then turned his head to a lady who was just starting her run and struggling a bit, and yelled, “Suck it up! You’re doing GREAT!” Highlight of my race and 100% future goals.
I even got a cool medal which I always find exciting since a lot of smaller tris don’t give out medals.
Overall:
I love the Without Limits races, and this was no exception. While I was bummed that I wasn’t as prepared as I thought I’d be when I signed up, this was a great race to refuel my motivation and get out my injury/post-IM funk.
Cons:
I lost my damn goggles at the race. This is my fault and not a con of the race overall, but I want to bitch about it since they were my favorite.
Well my light calf cramp during IM St George a few weeks ago turned into a tear or pull. Or was a always a tear or pull disguising itself as nothing to worry about. Either way, I’ve been off of training for the past 3 weeks, not counting the 2 sporadic days I tried to train bit only made things worse.
I’ve felt lazy and depressed and a severe case of ennui.
Anyway, this weekend is the Colorado Tri which I am excited, but nervous about. I was initially stoked because I would have been trained for a 70.3, so I could crush a sprint. Now I’m just excited to get back into the swing of things. This week will be all swim since it’s low impact and I’m still healing. Plus the smell of being saturated in chlorine on a daily basis really brings me back to my swim team days.
By Lindsay Zemba Leigh | Dec. 04, 2017, 7:13 p.m. (ET) Challenge yourself to add yoga to your offseason schedule — when your swim/bike/run volume is reduced — for greater mobility, flexibility, concentration, body awareness and stress relief. If you can make it to a regular class a few times per week, that is ideal. Instructors will take you through proper warm-ups (usually sun salutations) and…
