Not that I’m braggin’

Well, okay, maybe I’m bragging…but whatever.  It’s my f’ing blog so I can brag if I want to.

This morning, I completed the Chicagoland Danksin Triathlon.  It sucked and was awesome, all rolled into one (try figuring that one out!).

I was a fucking basket case.  No joke.  It was awful.  I was even shaking, and not from the cold temperatures or the wind!

But then my extremely wonderful husband (Jay, save this for future reference for when I’m not so happy with you!) sought us out before we even started our swim and it was so cool to see him before heading into the water.  It brought tears to my eyes and meant that much to me.

Despite the fears and issues I vocalized in a previous entry, you definitely didn’t see me crying at the finish line!  I beat my overall time from my best year-to-date by 5 minutes and 7 seconds.  wOOt!

Unfortunately, none of that was due my awesome swimming or biking abilities.

My swim time was 18 seconds worse than my best time and that was due to the women who were not overly strong swimmers and kept moving in the same direction I was trying to move to in order to avoid their slow asses.  At one point, I was getting sandwiched between to women and I, obviously, was bumping into one of them.  Do you know what that fucking bitch did?  As soon as we were away from the sucky swimmer, she practically pounced on me and I went under the water.  WTF?  People drown that way bitch.  I only wish I had seen what number she was because I would have kicked the living shit out of her after it was all over.

My bike time was 12 seconds worse than my best time ever and I’m not that upset because it was windy out and it got SUPER windy when I had approximately 1/3 of the way to go.  Trying to go up 2 super steep hills with wind pushing you the opposite direction is NOT fun.  When you go down said hill, you should not have to pedal and should be able to coast.  Not the case today.

My first transition time was AWFUL this year though (going from swimming to biking).  It was up 57 seconds from my best time ever.  I don’t know what I did differently besides for take 2 puffs on my albuterol inhaler and take 4-ibuprofen’s 

 

The truly impressive part, IMO, is my run time.  My run time improved 6 minutes and 23 seconds from my best time ever!  Holy wow, that’s incredible, and I’m even giving myself a pat on the back for that one!

Overall, I finished in the top 41% of EVERYONE and my second best finish was 64%.  That’s a pretty good improvement if I might say so myself.  Either that or, we had a bunch of suck-ass people doing it this year.  But, I’m sticking with the improvement rationale, much more favorable.

And now, a few beers later (YES, I desperately craved a beer afterwards), I’m pretty buzzed and am off to take a nap.

Tootaloo for now.