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Track, Tri's and Track

So over the past month I have been busy! I raced in the Friday Night Rice All-Comers Meet June 19. I ran in the mile and ran a post college PR of 5:07, last year was 5:12 and the year before was 5:18. So steadily improving.
I competed in the the Memorial Sugar Land Triathlon put on by Finish Line Sports. This is the same course as Try Andy's, but with a 300m pool swim instead of the 300m lake swim. I have stuck by my non-swim training technique and continued to rock climb to maintain my upper body fitness. I swam within 13 secs of my best swim for 300m, had a pretty fast T1 and then headed out on the bike. I have just been trying to ride consistently over the past month and haven't done any speed work on the bike, and it showed. I averaged 23.6 mph for the 10 mile course, hopefully by the time Try Andy's rolls around I will be closer to 24+mph. T2 was really fast thanks to using my platforms on the bike. My run was so-so. I have not done any brick workouts, but have been doing speed work. I ran a 20:02 for 3 miles. A bit faster than COMBAT tri, but I would really like to see the time closer to 19:30 for Try Andys.
As usual, there was a great showing by the Fort Bend TriPsyclones at the race and as volunteers.

With July Starting I will be spending some time at the Alkek Velodrome to work on my bike speed. I hope to also be able to hang in for some Friday night races come Aug/Sept!

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