Upper Mainline YMCA Triathlon 2013

I started this years triathlon season at the YMCA on April28, 2013.  While the outdoor 50 meter pool is heated, the air temperature the past two years has been chilly.  I had a late start this year and the weather was perfect.  The weatherman from the local ABC station participated in this years triathlon.  I'm not sure he had anything to do with the great weather but I thanked him and asked him to come back next year.

I finished last years triathlon season with a third place finish in my age group.  I started this years triathlon season with a third place finish in my age group.  With a little more training I hope to earn a first place finish in my age group at one of my future triathlons.

New Display for Race Medals

It only took two years of competition to fill up my Philadelphia Cityscape display rack.  I decided rather then retire the older medals I would purchase another display rack.  I selected a generic cityscape from Allied Medal Displays.

Burned Out

Running the Philadelphia Marathon was the end of a very long season of racing in 2012.  I started with a 5k run in March and ended with the marathon in November.  The day after the marathon I started a well deserved vacation.  I didn't realize how sore my knees would be after the marathon and lucky for me I selected a vacation destination that was flat.  My plan was to take off the entire week from training, no swimming, cycling, running or even a walk.  When I returned from vacation I had other things interfere with training and I missed the entire month of December and part of January.  

 

The first time I went into the pool I couldn't even swim 200 yards.  Talk about starting over from square one!  Good thing I didn't have any races planned in the near future.  I slowly worked on building endurance for swimming, cycling and running.  Then in March I caught the flu, missed two and one-half weeks of training and spent another two weeks easing back into training.

 

I wasn't ready for the Butterfly 5K in March and I wasn't ready for the Valley Forge Revolutionary 5 Mile run in April either.  My first event of 2013 will be the Upper Mainline YMCA Sprint triathlon.