Gold Coast

Last year, Gold Coast Triathlon in Port Washington was my first triathlon ever.

I have been a competitive swimmer since I was 12. Had an amazing experience swimming in college, felt I gave it everything I had, then promptly sat on my ass for 2 years. I started to run casually in grad school with some friends while trying to stay sane while surrounded by all that was this, as well as lose some of the couch weight I had gained. I ran a 10 mile road race in Oct 2005, and was hooked.

Upon moving to NYC, a few of my ex-swimmer friends (and now Kona qualifiers :) got me interested in triathlon. I joined a group to train with, bought a used bike that I still don't know anything about (all I know is that it's a super-cute, super-small Giant-OCR, I call it my 'Little Giant'), and made some amazing new friends.

So last year at Gold Coast, I had ridden my bike at most 10 times- I had yet to conquer my fear of riding in the streets of NYC...come to think of it, the 1/2 mile of city streets I now ride to the park is still the most stressful part of my day...

Last year, Gold Coast was also my first Brick. And I wanted to die. I thought I was standing still. And an 80-year old man ran past me.

By the numbers, last year:

13:30 swim (1/2 mile I think)
1:38 T1
36:35 bike (no idea- 13ish miles maybe?)
0:43 T2 (my rack was right next to bike in/run out)
22:43 run (3 miles- this may include my T2 time, as the results say the pace was 7:19, which doesn't really make sense...)

1:15:11

My main goal is to improve on each of these times. The weather is supposed to be perfect. I am SO excited.

[I realized last night at packet pick-up that I am for some reason starting with the older female swim wave. It looks like most other 25-29 females are in wave 4, and I am in wave 8. Not sure of the reason, but it will give me good motivation to catch up to my age group!]