Last weekend was our annual WWMS tri team training weekend up at Newfound Lake, NH. It was raining and 45 degrees (ok, maybe 50) the entire weekend. Despite the rain it was a blast! There are lots of new members this year and many of them braved the miserable weather to come up, especially brave since our rooms were unheated.
Sunny and Julie did a fabulous job organizing lots of activities including smores night in front of an awesome old stone fireplace at the camp. Many people braved the weather and swam in the heated outdoor pool - there was absolutely no way I was doing this, even though I desperately need to start swimming again since my first race is in July and I haven't swum a lap since December 4th.
The food was actually really good and we all ate a ton. We also got the chance to try out our new team bike kits at dinner - which look really cool thanks to Jamie for his great designs.
Hopefully we can organize another training camp weekend before Timberman and get nice sunny weather, but it seems like me + triathlon = rain - every race I did last year save one was all out rain or light rain turning to mist. Maybe I'll have better luck this year!
Race schedule so far is as follows (theme this year is Massachusetts!):
7/15 Lowell Mill City Olympic
8/5 Greenfield Olympic
8/26 Cranberry Country Olympic
9/9 Hopkinton Olympic (tentative)
Lowell and Greenfield will both be river swims - which will be interesting to say the least. Not sure which is worse - river or ocean swim. But at least there are no sharks in the river - just water snakes. Not sure which is worse, sharks or river snakes.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Race Report
Ok - two races down - and still can't climb hills. Need to work on climbing, plus sprinting, plus endurance, plus... ok, just everything.
Sterling: Sterling was a great first race to do - a 3 lapper with a short but steeper than it looks hill. I was psyched to stay with the pack through the first lap, but didn't realize we were coming up on the steep hill, was at the back of the pack and promptly got dropped. Despite that, the pack remained within sight for 1/2 of the second lap, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch back on. So, for lap 3 I hooked up with Cathy, Julie and Stephanie from NEBC and finished strong, well actually weak - too little training and too much lactic acid made for a sad site of me struggling in my 12/27 to make it up the steep hill to the finish. Oh well, 23/26 was a good first start. Forgot the sunscreen and got sunburned too - hmm, maybe the sunburn caused me to struggle up the hill...
Mount Sunapee: Cold and rainy. Normally I would be mopey and not want to do the race, but I was actually psyched to race. Looking forward to seeing my NEBC friends and to doing better than at Sterling. Mission accomplished! I still got dropped on the first hill, but I had much better pack placement and managed to bike the 2nd half of the race by myself, but finished ahead of the girls I finished Sterling with. Thoughts during this race were: my shoes are too loose, need to tighten them; my toes are cold; ok, I can't feel my toes; why did I switch from my triple?; are my toes numb?; why did I switch from the triple?; ok, here come the pro men, there aren't that many of them, I wonder why, oh that's right it's raining and 45; my toes really are numb; ok, where is the next turn, am I on the right road?; ok, there's the rotary; my toes!!!; where do I go now?; there's Darcy cheering us on!; down shift, no more gears, sigh, why don't they make a 12/29?; finish line! 13/18
Next up, Lake Auburn and Great Falls.
Sterling: Sterling was a great first race to do - a 3 lapper with a short but steeper than it looks hill. I was psyched to stay with the pack through the first lap, but didn't realize we were coming up on the steep hill, was at the back of the pack and promptly got dropped. Despite that, the pack remained within sight for 1/2 of the second lap, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch back on. So, for lap 3 I hooked up with Cathy, Julie and Stephanie from NEBC and finished strong, well actually weak - too little training and too much lactic acid made for a sad site of me struggling in my 12/27 to make it up the steep hill to the finish. Oh well, 23/26 was a good first start. Forgot the sunscreen and got sunburned too - hmm, maybe the sunburn caused me to struggle up the hill...
Mount Sunapee: Cold and rainy. Normally I would be mopey and not want to do the race, but I was actually psyched to race. Looking forward to seeing my NEBC friends and to doing better than at Sterling. Mission accomplished! I still got dropped on the first hill, but I had much better pack placement and managed to bike the 2nd half of the race by myself, but finished ahead of the girls I finished Sterling with. Thoughts during this race were: my shoes are too loose, need to tighten them; my toes are cold; ok, I can't feel my toes; why did I switch from my triple?; are my toes numb?; why did I switch from the triple?; ok, here come the pro men, there aren't that many of them, I wonder why, oh that's right it's raining and 45; my toes really are numb; ok, where is the next turn, am I on the right road?; ok, there's the rotary; my toes!!!; where do I go now?; there's Darcy cheering us on!; down shift, no more gears, sigh, why don't they make a 12/29?; finish line! 13/18
Next up, Lake Auburn and Great Falls.
Pond Skimming
Well, it's been a few weeks, ok over a month, but here are some pics from the Annual Killington Pond Skimming:
Getting Ready
A Good Skim
Last Day of Ski Patrol (yeay!):
Me & Lisa soaking up the sun
Check out all the snow and it's 4/22!! Even Lower Ovation looks ski-able.
Take off!
Getting Ready
A Good Skim
Last Day of Ski Patrol (yeay!):
Me & Lisa soaking up the sun
Check out all the snow and it's 4/22!! Even Lower Ovation looks ski-able.
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