UBC REC Tri Du – My First Tri Blog

I got my race package! I’ll be racing with #2164 starting at 10:10am!

Some of the nerves have gone away, the excitement is overpowering it. It still doesn’t actually feel real that I’m less than 48 hours away from my first triathlon. I’ve been looking through the race package for the past half hour, but it hasn’t really kicked in that this is MY race package. Usually I’m rifling through my boyfriend’s bag of sports magazines and flyers for upcoming races. There are a few triathlons coming up in the summer, the Point Grey and a couple of Subaru ones. If all goes well on Sunday, I may actually be competing in one or two of them.

I didn’t really do much training this week, I missed my Sunday morning bike because of the snow, my Monday night run because of school, but thankfully I was still able to get in my swim which is what I’m nervous about the most. Did I remember to hydrate well over the week? Nope. Did I get a good night’s sleep every night? Nope. This week has pretty much been a blur. So much of what I had set out do this week I didn’t actually accomplish. Balls.

I did however get some fun goodies last night! I went to Forerunners and picked up some Gu energy gels. Never in my life did I think I would ever been consuming these, but now I’m actually excited. I was really tempted to try one of them. I ended up getting lemon and orange flavours. The thought of a chocolate, vanilla, or worse yet chocolate-mint flavoured gel makes me gag.

One piece of advice I will actually use is getting a good night’s sleep two nights before the race. Apparently it’s hard to get a good night’s sleep the night before a race, so here I am, on a Friday night at 10pm, and I’m already in bed. After reading all of this triathlon material I wouldn’t be surprised if I dream of triathlons. I hope my subconscious has faith in me and I finish the race.

Goodnight!