YMCA Indoor Tri '15
Kellie McGuire
I managed to get a few snaps taken before I got a last minute chance to participate in the Tri. Someone dropped out and I got to join in the last time-slot thanks to Mike Halsted.
I got in the pool and in the lanes to the left of me were Chad Duffy, Bill Shashaty, Donald Thurston, and Scott Costley. The lane to the right was waiting for its swimmer.
I’m new to the sport of Triathlon but my limited experience has brought me into contact with Duffy, Shashaty, and Thurston before. 'Just swim your pace' I reminded myself knowing there was no way to keep up with the swimmers near me.
Last year’s indoor Tri was my first ever. I did the whole 15 minute swim backstroke. Since then I’ve done two sprint distance Tris and gained enough swimming proficiency to swim the crawl and even alternate sides breathing.
The water temp was just a little cool, perfect for swimming. I enjoyed my swim. I could tell Mike Smith, in the lane to the right, was swimming about my pace and that Thruston to my left was smoking me, but I didn’t really care. I just swam my race and focused on my form.
Transition time and on to the stationary bike in the middle of the gym. It’s pretty distracting. I don’t think I've ever compete in a situation quite like it. There was music blasting and people standing next to me eating chili while I rode.
As you all know its been a long, long cold winter and the fact that I haven’t been on my bike since November was self evident within a few revolutions. I set a distance goal and I beat it by .2 miles.
Transition to run. I was almost late.
Now I enjoy swimming, so much more than I ever thought I would, and I do love a good bike ride, but running – running is where it’s at.
On Christmas Day my niece kneed me in the shin so hard that it took almost six weeks to not hurt when I ran. I’ve run maybe once a week all winter long.
Normally I’m a trail runner and running indoors hardly feels like the same sport. But not on this day.
I started running and I started grinning and then just plain old smiling.
I love running.
From the responses of the volunteers I guess I kept right on smiling for the whole 20 minutes. Oh I got lapped. There goes cargo short kid, Mike Smith. Oh it's thigh guy again, Chad Duffy. Mike Shashaty passing again. Hi Donald, Hi Donald, Hi Donald...
I just enjoyed the run.
It was a great day!
Many thanks to all the volunteers who made it possible.
I managed to get a few snaps taken before I got a last minute chance to participate in the Tri. Someone dropped out and I got to join in the last time-slot thanks to Mike Halsted.
I got in the pool and in the lanes to the left of me were Chad Duffy, Bill Shashaty, Donald Thurston, and Scott Costley. The lane to the right was waiting for its swimmer.
I’m new to the sport of Triathlon but my limited experience has brought me into contact with Duffy, Shashaty, and Thurston before. 'Just swim your pace' I reminded myself knowing there was no way to keep up with the swimmers near me.
Last year’s indoor Tri was my first ever. I did the whole 15 minute swim backstroke. Since then I’ve done two sprint distance Tris and gained enough swimming proficiency to swim the crawl and even alternate sides breathing.
The water temp was just a little cool, perfect for swimming. I enjoyed my swim. I could tell Mike Smith, in the lane to the right, was swimming about my pace and that Thruston to my left was smoking me, but I didn’t really care. I just swam my race and focused on my form.
Transition time and on to the stationary bike in the middle of the gym. It’s pretty distracting. I don’t think I've ever compete in a situation quite like it. There was music blasting and people standing next to me eating chili while I rode.
As you all know its been a long, long cold winter and the fact that I haven’t been on my bike since November was self evident within a few revolutions. I set a distance goal and I beat it by .2 miles.
Transition to run. I was almost late.
Now I enjoy swimming, so much more than I ever thought I would, and I do love a good bike ride, but running – running is where it’s at.
On Christmas Day my niece kneed me in the shin so hard that it took almost six weeks to not hurt when I ran. I’ve run maybe once a week all winter long.
Normally I’m a trail runner and running indoors hardly feels like the same sport. But not on this day.
I started running and I started grinning and then just plain old smiling.
I love running.
From the responses of the volunteers I guess I kept right on smiling for the whole 20 minutes. Oh I got lapped. There goes cargo short kid, Mike Smith. Oh it's thigh guy again, Chad Duffy. Mike Shashaty passing again. Hi Donald, Hi Donald, Hi Donald...
I just enjoyed the run.
It was a great day!
Many thanks to all the volunteers who made it possible.
The twenty-fifth indoor triathlon at the Kingston YMCA was sold out, as usual.
The sixty participants swam for 15 minutes, biked for 20 and ran for 20 more to raise money for the Y's Strong Kids Campaign.
The objective of this race is to cover the most distance possible in the allotted time.
There were veteran triathletes, like Don Davis of SOS fame who won the first indoor tri 25 years ago, as well as novices.
Facundo Martinez, age 11, won the boys under 20 age group and rode the whole 20 minutes standing up because he couldn’t reach the peddles from the seat.
Allie Mitchell won the swim, just won the swim. She beat everyone completing 46 laps in 15 minutes.
She comes by it naturally her Mom, Kim, won the women's race. Her Dad, John, won the 50-59 age group.
The dream-team Duffys, Marcy and Chad, won the 30-39 age group. Steve Shallenkamp director of the Shawangunk Runner’s Club, won the 60's age group.
Best bikes time went to Bill Shashaty with 7.29 miles and Marcy Duffy: 6.44 miles.
Best run times went to power couple Winter Eyres: 37 laps and her husband Mike Vance with 41.5 laps.
The overall winners were Kim Scott-Mitchell who completed 9.592 miles and Bill Shashaty who swam, biked and ran for 10.810 miles.
...Peak
The sixty participants swam for 15 minutes, biked for 20 and ran for 20 more to raise money for the Y's Strong Kids Campaign.
The objective of this race is to cover the most distance possible in the allotted time.
There were veteran triathletes, like Don Davis of SOS fame who won the first indoor tri 25 years ago, as well as novices.
Facundo Martinez, age 11, won the boys under 20 age group and rode the whole 20 minutes standing up because he couldn’t reach the peddles from the seat.
Allie Mitchell won the swim, just won the swim. She beat everyone completing 46 laps in 15 minutes.
She comes by it naturally her Mom, Kim, won the women's race. Her Dad, John, won the 50-59 age group.
The dream-team Duffys, Marcy and Chad, won the 30-39 age group. Steve Shallenkamp director of the Shawangunk Runner’s Club, won the 60's age group.
Best bikes time went to Bill Shashaty with 7.29 miles and Marcy Duffy: 6.44 miles.
Best run times went to power couple Winter Eyres: 37 laps and her husband Mike Vance with 41.5 laps.
The overall winners were Kim Scott-Mitchell who completed 9.592 miles and Bill Shashaty who swam, biked and ran for 10.810 miles.
...Peak
