On Saturday I ran in my first 10k. That's the distance I'll need to finish with my Olympic Distance triathlon. It was a great confidence-builder, namely, because I finished! And I felt pretty good after I was done too. With my first Spring Triathlon, even though it was a challenge, I knew that at some point I had done each of those things individually, so I 'just' needed to put the three together. With an Olympic Distance, I'd never done ANY of those legs individually! So each leg is its own challenge PLUS putting them all together.
I started out really slowly for the first half, then once I saw I had run a full five K, and still felt great, began to pick up the pace. Now I want to do one again and see if I can improve my speed! Aaah, this is the logic that drives you once you start racing. There's just always something to improve. It's definitely motivating.
The race was the Railroad Days at Snoqualmie. I saw the clock showed 1:05 as I ran past it, which I'm perfectly satisfied with. My fast 5k in my first triathlon was about 25 minutes, my slow one at Chelan took about 32 minutes. So I'd say double the distance that time is perfectly reasonable.
Racing to the finish line pleased as punch!
At this point I'm thinking it'll take me approximately an hour to complete the swim, 2 hours to complete the bike portion, then 1 hour to run. Gulp. That's four hours. Gulp.
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