Last year I did a lot of triathlons. While I love racing, this year I want to scale back a bit. I’m going to try my best to focus on quality, not quantity. To that end, I’ve decided to go ahead and pick my races for the year, with the goal of doing about one race per month. That won’t always happen, because I also want to do the races that I really enjoy — and some of those fall close together. We’ll see. Here’s my plan:
March 30 – Lonestar Quarter Ironman, Galveston
April 20 – Battle of San Jacinto Olympic Tri, Baytown
May 18 – Silverlake Sprint Tri, Pearland
May 24 – COMBAT Sprint Tri, Texas City
June 29 – Y Tri Freedom Sprint, Pearland
July 27 – Silverlake Aquathon, Pearland (run/swim/run)
August 17 – Ironbabe Sprint Tri, Houston
October 25 – Hi-Fi Olympic Tri, Galveston
Triathlon is such a growing sport that races around here sell out weeks or months in advance, so I plan to register for the first half of these races within the week.
If you plan to be at any of these, definitely let me know!
I love that this area now has enough events that I can do races that I really like without having to drive an hour or more. The triathlons that they do over in Katy and up in The Woodlands are great, but a secondary goal in cutting back is reducing the crazy amounts of time I spend just driving to some races. Each of those in the list above are within a half hour’s drive of my apartment (with the possible except of Ironbabe, but that was too good of a race to not do again).
In addition to those eight, there are a few other races on my list as “maybe” events:
June 8 – Danskin Sprint, Austin – I will do it if Leila wants to do it.
July 20 – Webster Duathlon, Texas City – I will do this if the Silverlake Aquathon is cancelled (like it was last year due to lack of participants).
November 9 – Ironstar Half Ironman, Conroe – This is a BIG maybe at this point.
So there it is! You can also expect to see me at a handful of local 5Ks over the summer, especially those in or near Clear Lake like the Resurrection Run, Summer Kickoff, and Lunar Rendezvous.
That doesn’t really sound like cutting back, I know. But trust me. For me, it is.
I think the traditional third race of the Webster Bicycle Duathlon is being replaced by the Du The Bear Duathlon in October (which is being held at Bear Creek Park).
I thought I saw this in an ad this weekend in RTN, ITR or both.
I’ve already signed up for the danskin. You should definitely do it!
Beck,
Was a little bit surprised the Sugar Land Women’s Tri on June 22nd wasn’t on your dance card. Too far away?
http://www.rrca.org/calendars/showevent.php?id=14338
Wow. That is so cool. I’m jealous! I have zero minutes of floating!
Great run on Sat!
Katy