I did Culford Sprint triathlon back in June. I try to do a triathlon regularly - every 20 years. I am VERY proud of myself. It’s our club’s race so it was great knowing all the marshals and getting lots of encouragement from them. I have marshalled this race for many, many years and now that I have two new shoulders and can swim in a straight line I figured it was my turn to have a go.
It had it’s ups and downs.
My swim breathing went to pot, but I did a PB, cycling was strong (for me). Then I came into T2. I dismounted and ran with my bike towards transition, tripped on the timing mat and splatted down on both knees with a good skid.
Embarked on run with buckets of blood running down both shins, thus getting lots of sympathy, and actually did a reasonable time by my standards. I could pretend that the run/walk strategy was because of the injury.
Nice medic cleaned up my knees and I had some medicinal cake.
I way exceeded my expectations and finished in 1:32 (expected at least 1:45). I was last in my age group but beat all the 30-34 women (yes, there were some). I assume this is because in your 30s and 40s you give triathlon a go to see whether you like it, when you’re 50 you do one as a personal challenge on your list of stuff to do. But once you’re 60 you don’t decide to have a go, so the only women in my AG are really experienced and are the ones who stuck with it because they’re good at it. That’s my theory.
good effort.