{"id":3714,"date":"2015-07-13T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2015-07-13T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T13:37:17","slug":"race-report-colonial-beach-sprint-tri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/13\/race-report-colonial-beach-sprint-tri\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Report &#8211; Colonial Beach Sprint Tri"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3716\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0529-e1436793943120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3716 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0529-e1436793943120-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0529\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0529-e1436793943120-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0529-e1436793943120-769x1024.jpg 769w, http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0529-e1436793943120.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look, the sun was starting to come out! Man, we were wet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I agreed to sign up for a July triathlon, my thought was &#8220;This is going to be hot.&#8221;\u00a0 My plan was that I would swim hard, bike hard, and slog through the run (as the heat makes my HR skyrocket).\u00a0 But the Colonial Beach Sprint was at a good time in my schedule, and I had friends going, so why not?<\/p>\n<p>I could not have been more off base with my plan.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the forecast, I knew it was going to rain, knew it wasn&#8217;t going to storm, but I did not grasp what &#8220;rain&#8221; truly meant.\u00a0 Saturday morning, we got up and drove to the race start and it was raining.\u00a0 Then it started pouring.\u00a0 I mean, we were just going to get wet when we got in the water, so what did it matter?\u00a0 Around 6am, they made the decision that they were going to have the race, so we all started setting up transition.\u00a0 A friend checked out the run course and told us it was pretty much under water, so trying to keep running shoes dry was pointless.<\/p>\n<p>As race time approached, the skies started to clear up.\u00a0 We headed down to the beach and into the water.\u00a0 The water was 80 degrees and the air was 70 degrees, so the water felt great.\u00a0 It was chilly outside!<\/p>\n<p>The swim started and with all the rain, the chop was more than I expected.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t bad, but it was definitely more obvious than I thought it would be.\u00a0 I was nearing the final turn of the swim when the rain started again in earnest.\u00a0 Great.\u00a0 It was weird to try to breathe and get raindrops in my mouth.\u00a0 Just an unfamiliar sensation, not a challenge or anything.<\/p>\n<p>750m swim &#8211; 21:31<\/p>\n<p>T1 was uneventful. It was wet and overcast so I didn&#8217;t bother with sunscreen or my wings.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t have been able to get them on with how wet they were anyway.\u00a0 Struggled to get my socks on, but I hate biking\/running without them, so they were going on no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>T1 &#8211; 2:46<\/p>\n<p>Not long after I started on the bike course, I got passed by a fellow Athena.\u00a0 So I made it my goal to try to keep up with her.\u00a0 She was moving, but I thought I had a chance to keep up with her.\u00a0 Thankfully, the roads weren&#8217;t super smooth, so the rain wasn&#8217;t making things too slippery.\u00a0 But man, it was wet.\u00a0 I had my light colored lenses in my glasses, which definitely helped, but I kept having to wipe water out of my eyes.\u00a0 At one point, the rain was so hard it was tough to see and it actually stung where it hit my arms.\u00a0 Not terribly bad, but a noticeable pain.\u00a0 It was just crazy!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never ridden in anything like that.<\/p>\n<p>I mostly kept up with the girl and passed her at one point, but she came flying past me a bit later.\u00a0 It was fun to push myself.\u00a0 I struggle to do that in races where I don&#8217;t have a challenger.\u00a0 It&#8217;s finding the balance between pushing the right amount and pushing too hard.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered that while leaning over the bike, the rain water would really fill up the chamois in my shorts and then when I sat up it would all squish out.\u00a0 So gross and hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>14 miles &#8211; 52:09<\/p>\n<p>When I got into transition, it was flooded.\u00a0 And my right running shoe actually had a puddle of water in it.\u00a0 Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>T2 &#8211; 1:47<\/p>\n<p>Liz and I were in T2 at the same time, and after leapfrogging for about half a mile, just decided to run together.\u00a0 My 1:1 wasn&#8217;t working for me because my heartrate kept getting way too high (I think I was pushing too hard because the weather was cool, plus I just wanted to be done since I was so incredibly wet).\u00a0 So I ran 30:30s and she ran with me for most of it.\u00a0 It was fun to have a partner to run with!\u00a0 I kept telling her she could run ahead, and I think she thought that meant I didn&#8217;t want her running with me, but really, I just felt bad holding her back.<\/p>\n<p>But man, it was fun to run together.\u00a0 At one point, we splashed through a puddle and just leaped into it, splashing as much as possible and laughing.\u00a0 It was so much fun.\u00a0 At another point, she hit a puddle and splashed me.\u00a0 I scolded her for getting me wet and this volunteer made the greatest face in response.\u00a0 So funny.<\/p>\n<p>Also, for the second race in a row, my hair used its powers of strength to destroy the hair rubberband tying it back, but Liz had an extra one around my wrist and saved me.\u00a0 Lesson &#8211; carry a spare.<\/p>\n<p>So the run wasn&#8217;t what I expected at all, but man, it was a blast.<\/p>\n<p>5k &#8211; 39:29<\/p>\n<p>Total time &#8211; 1:57:39<\/p>\n<p>I had hoped for under 2 hours and I got it, and it was so much fun.\u00a0 The rain was insanely ridiculous and made for a great race.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure that I was wetter after the run than I was after the swim, because at least the swim cap pressed the water out of my hair somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, by the time I was driving home, the sun was out and it was a glorious day.\u00a0 OF COURSE IT WAS.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I loved the race exactly as is.\u00a0 The volunteers out in the rain were phenomenal.\u00a0 And we had a blast.<\/p>\n<p>And then I spent the next day trying to get my stuff to dry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0531.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3715\" src=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0531-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0531\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0531-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0531-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0531-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I agreed to sign up for a July triathlon, my thought was &#8220;This is going to be hot.&#8221;\u00a0 My plan was that I would swim hard, bike hard, and slog through the run (as the heat makes my HR skyrocket).\u00a0 But the Colonial Beach Sprint was at a good time in my schedule, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[63,115],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Race Report - Colonial Beach Sprint Tri - Elbowglitter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Recap of the Colonial Beach Sprint Triathlon.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/13\/race-report-colonial-beach-sprint-tri\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Race Report - Colonial Beach Sprint Tri - Elbowglitter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recap of the Colonial Beach Sprint Triathlon.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/13\/race-report-colonial-beach-sprint-tri\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Elbowglitter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-13T13:37:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0529-e1436793943120-225x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Megan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Megan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/13\/race-report-colonial-beach-sprint-tri\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/13\/race-report-colonial-beach-sprint-tri\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Megan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f22c797e4ef4db1718a066ac354deba6\"},\"headline\":\"Race Report &#8211; 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