{"id":803,"date":"2019-06-15T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2019-06-15T13:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:25:31","slug":"leons-tri-6-2-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/leons-tri-6-2-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon’s Tri – 6\/2\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” – Robert Burns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had such great plans for the spring Tri season. I’d have at least two, possibly three opportunities to qualify for Nationals at short races. Then in June, Leon’s and Pleasant Prairie could be ‘tune up’ full Sprint races. Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned. I couldn’t find a guide for either IN race and Monsoon Houston killed the other one. I did manage to find a June short course race — more on that in a future blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So going into Leon’s, there was a bit more pressure than usual. But I still felt good knowing what my times had been in 2018 and knowing the work I had put in in 2019. Hootie even mentioned that the swim was only 500 during the Athlete Briefing, which made me feel even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heading into the water, I felt confident that I would get close to a NQ time. And then things fell apart\u2026 We had a group of 60 for our wave, all with different swim levels. So combine traffic with my normal swerving, along with the swim being 750-800 instead of 500, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the swim was not the best, I tried to regroup in T1. During it, my sunglasses fell out of my helmet and I accidentally crashed them with my cleats. Thankfully it was overcast, so I was okay without them. The bike itself went decently — nothing could be done about 15mph headwinds in the worst possible places (uphills\/inclines).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, they changed the run so that we headed the other way on the lakefront path. I clearly went out too fast in mile #1, as I felt it at about the turnaround. The rest of it ended up being a run\/walk pace on this > 5K run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it wasn’t the day I had planned or needed, I did still come home with a 2nd (Mideast Regionals) and 3rd (PC Open) for VI Male. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to Dare2Tri for all of their help and support and to Lee Dunbar for guiding for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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