Pre Race
Post Race!
Today Angie, Julia, and I swam/biked/ran the Danskin Women's Triathlon located at Disneyland's California Adventures. You wonder, "where do you swim"? If you've ever been to DCA, we swam in the lagoon next to the large ferris wheel. Let me tell you, it was gross. I mean so murky you couldn't see your hand in front of you. The race started at 6am, so Angie and I woke up at 430am and trekked ourselves over to DCA. After setting up our transition area, we walked over to the swim and proceeded to line up like cows by cap color (I was a yellow cap, Angie was blue in the heat after mine). I snuck my way up to the front so that I didn't have to swim over people. The gun went off and I basically tried to sprint the 1/3 of a mile swim finishing in 10minutes 27 seconds, which placed me at 103 out of 1300 which made me happy. After climbing out of the murky waters, I ran to my bike and started the 10 mile bike ride around Disneyland. It was nice and flat. I cursed my bike as all the people with road bikes whizzed on by me on my hybrid. I don't like to blame my bike, but I swear I could be much faster with a road bike. I ended up placing 850 out 1300 in the bike portion. The last leg of the race was the run which was cool because we ran through DCA, in the back lots passed the Hollywood Terror and then through the park past the Bug's Life ride and other rides. It was nice and fast course at 2.5 miles. My normal pace is 11 min/mile for my longer runs. Even though I felt like molasses and my legs felt like bricks, I surprised myself and ran a respectable 9.5 min/mile. Before the 1 mile mark, Angie (who mind you started 3 minutes earlier) flew by me in her usual hyperness she somehow pulls together at the end of all the races we do together. I never thought she would beat me, but looks like she is the better racer/athelete beating me by 4 minutes. All in all, it was a fun race. A great race for first time triatheletes, especially women since it is a women only race. No testosterone allowed!
hi I was just wonder when did you register for this last year? I don't want to miss out on it this year and I hear it fills up instantly
ReplyDeleteThat was my 2nd year. I think you can look on the danskin website to check when the registration starts. It is usually in june so I believe we registered in march or april. I would just keep checking the website. It is a great race to do for fun.
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