San Jose International Triathlon BG facts

Five members of my team and I made the trek up to San Jose for the San Jose International Triathlon on Sunday the 24th. We successfully halved the MPG capabilities of Dan Anderson’s Prius by putting four bikes on the roof. We hit almost no traffic, but when we did Chris was quick to optimistically point out that at least we were getting better gas mileage. A lot of the time was spent reading the “If…” book and learning a lot about each other…

We left La Jolla Saturday morning and met Andrew at on exit off the 5 fwy and drove the rest of the way in two cars. On the way up it was Dan Anderson, Blair Ryan, Tammy Wildgoose, Andrew Radin and our personal ‘race sherpa’ Chris Burnham. Darlene was at a conference near Boston and was flying across the country to join us for this race. We regrouped with her at Tom Scherbart’s house where we stayed for the night. Tom’s parents made us a delicious dinner that was perfect after such a long drive and race ahead. Saturday night we made some minor and not so minor bike adjustments in Tom’s driveway, and struggled to get our tires above 80 PSI using Dan’s bike pump. With a 7:00am start we were up early. Left Tom’s house by 5:15, and drove to the course, attempting to choke down some calories that early in the morning (I still don’t know if Darlene was successful.)

We were expecting reserved collegiate racks, but that was not the case and we set up in a random spot. Pre race was not too eventful except for the extra strides I got in trying to find the bike repair tent after an official pointed out that I was missing a bar end…my solution “oh, ok I have electrical tape” wasn’t going to cut it this time…Thank you Specialized tent... Julie Moss was announcing in and around the transition area, keeping people entertained. Our wave went off to a bagpipe version of Amazing Grace.
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Day before race/drive to San Jose: 268,209,271,213,246,183!! (more info below)
Pre Dinner: 165
Pre Bed night before race:134
Middle of Night (3:00 am): 253
Units Correction: 1.0
Fasting:237
Correcting/Breakfast coverage: 6.0 units (90g carbs)
post breakfast: 320
Unit Correction: 2.0
Mid Warm Up:298
Unit Correction:1.0
T1:235
Units: 0.5 on bike
(ate 1/2 gel and drank 1/2 accelerade-20gs total-did not cover)
T2:131
(drank 1x15g juicy juice)
Post race: 187
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Thoughts:
High all day of travel, I changed my infusion set and insulin and still stayed high. Must have just been stress. Weird, didn't feel that stressed.
BASAL INCREASE OVERNIGHT NOT ENOUGH.
The swim was okay, not great, not horrible.
The bike was pretty bad. I was stiff from the beginning. Painful straining muscles in upper hamstring. Heart rate not high, but legs wouldn't move.
Didn't want to eat gel on the bike because already too high, but afraid I'd bonk from hunger if I didn't. I also didn't want to cover it because I was worried the 3 units taken during warm up were still active. It is a good thing I didn't cover the half gel and drink because I was 131 in T2. Drank Juicy Juice because I was wary of how much insulin was still active since it was bringing it down during the bike. So muscles weren't completely resistant anymore (like the past 24 hours.) Should have only drank 3/4 of juice. Was able to come back in the run. Probably because of the 3.0 units on board finally bringing BG down. Best run in a triathlon yet!

Swim 00:21:49.0 T1 00:03:34.8 Bike 01:16:57.0 T2 00:01:37.6 Run 00:46:29.0 Finish 02:30:27.5