ouch
I completed a triathlon yesterday. It was exactly as I visualised. My friend Sarah started 45secs before me, I caught her in the swim and overtook her in transition, beat her by about 4mins in the cycle. Then she just overtook me in the run and I think beat me, but we don’t know yet becuase the results haven’t been published. It was like a film in my head, Sarah crossed the line then the clock counted down 45 seconds in slow motion, cut to me running in slow motion trying to reach the line. It was all a cruel joke though because I really was running in slow motion and I just couldn’t make that sprint finish to cross the line with 1 second to go. hmmm we’ll see when the results are published.
I think my friend Kate was traumatised, because when both Sarah and I crossed her path on the run circuit she would shout things like “THIS IS HELL” and “I’M IN SO MUCH PAIN”. ooohps I think she forgot it was supposed to be fun.