The Bike

I went for a bike fit on Thursday, and the guy told me to come back once I had ~2000km in my legs to put the seat a little higher because my fitness level was not great right now. So I bike with the tri team on Saturday and we did about 7 times the circuit in 45 mins followed by a 20 min run...the run felt increadibbly horrible but the bike was great, I tried to hold on to a few guys to save my legs a little for Sunday while still going pretty hard on Saturday. After the 45 mins bike the guys told me they were really tired so I felt pretty good about that 'cause I was real tired too!
On Sunday, I had my first bike race off the season, in Ste-Martine, 56km which consisted of 4*14km of a really flat course open to any wind at all, thank goodness there was no wind yesterday! My goal was to stay with the pack for as long as possible and even though I was shaking like a leaf at the start, I managed to stay with the pack for the whole race!! Although, the down side was that I got to experience how scary it actually is to ride with ~35 girls just as or more competitive than me....there was some knocking, pushing, shouting...and quite a few borderline crashes. I have to consider myself lucky because at the end of the race I decided to move up and that's when one girl took one of my teammates down, luckily my teammate wasn't hurt but the other girl was not looking as lucky.
So next race the plan is to try to position myself closer to the front of the pack.....oh yeah....and know the course before the race...!!!