I Love To Tri - Indoor Triathlon

I participated in an indoor triathlon on Sunday and things went very well.
My aching ankle was a serious worry heading into this event. I hadn't run more than a mile on it since I injured it during my last 15K race.
The format of the indoor triathlon is 15 minutes for each part of the race.
We started with 15 minutes in the pool. I made it 1800 yards. The pool was 25 yards long (you do the math for laps).
I hopped out feeling pretty good, but still worrying about the run leg coming up at the end.
I jumped on my pre-set spin bike and started pedaling. I really didn't understand the bike that I was using because the power reading only went to 120 RPMs. No matter how fast I spun, it went to 120. I figured that all of us would have the same bike reading so I slowed a little bit to save my legs. Why work harder than I have to? It turns out that the mileage was still being effected by the quicker spin even though the power output wasn't going higher than 120. Oops. According to my bike, I went 8.37 miles in 15 minutes. I better have a good run.
I got off of the bike at the end of 15 minutes and darted to the indoor track upstairs. I cleared my watch and stood on the starting line. I was hoping my ankle was feeling cooperative. If not, a little pain never hurt anybody, right? Don't answer that... I know pain, technically, hurts everyone. I'm just saying... nevermind.
So the run started at the whistle and I darted out to the front. My goal was to lap everybody at least once. I know, I'm cocky, but mind games are what work for me. So I was following my plan perfectly, but there was this guy that was making it hard to accomplish my goal, darn him!! Doesn't he know that I must lap him??!! I pick up the pace ever-so-slightly and my ankle yells at me. "Hey! Joe! Remember me?" I reply, "Shut up! You're just a stupid ankle, you stupid ankle!"
I ended up lapping the last remaining unlapped person with about 4 minutes left and continued to pull away as time ran out. My official distance in 15 minutes, 2.32 miles. I'm happy with that.
The official results can be found on www.cdymca.org. You can click on branches and then southern saratoga. It's there, trust me.
I cam in second place overall. I was 5th in the swim and 5th on the bike. My run was good enough for fastest of the day, but I still came up short for the race for first overall. THe bike issue killed me, but hey, I did it. My ankle felt ok afterwards.

An update on the ankle. I ran today for 30 minutes and it felt good. A slight twinge but nothing to worry about. I recently put inserts into my sneakers and it seems to be helping. I'm looking forward to my next race, the HMRRC marathon relay. The leg of the relay I will be running is 11 miles. This is on Sunday, February 24th. I'll be slowly up-ing my mileage this week.
Until next time...