Olympics and Triathlons

I have to admit it I'm addicted to the Olympics, I 'm watching events I never ever under normal Circumstance would watch , Weight lifting , Rowing , Gymnastics are normally not events for me, but during the Olympics this all changes. I love to watch all this and more, I guess the reason is knowing how much time and effort each and every one of these Athletes has put into getting into the Olympics. Those Guy's and Girls have trained endless hours.
On Saturday I was watching the Lady's Olympic Triathlon and was glues to the Stream what a Race. If you haven't seen it , try to look it up, really impressive stuff and this Week it is of course Track and field Events. I will spend many hours watching it.
So with that Race in mind, I had yesterday my small Little Sprint Triathlon, that one was my 4th ever Triathlon and even though I knew roughly what to expect it still is all kind of new to me.
This time the huge Challenge for me, was the swim. It was a lake Swim, so far I have only done River Swims and when I arrived at the lake yesterday I realized,  how big the difference would be.
The Lake looked huge and the turning Buoys were far out, plainly it looked scary.
I know I can swim 750m without getting into trouble and that's exactly what I told myself before the start. When I got into the water I started to divide the Swim, my first Goal was the first Buoy, nothing else was in my mind, just the first buoy, when I arrived there, I only concentrated on the second Buoy and then the last bit was the stretch home. That action plan worked amazingly well .
I have that trick from Chrissie Wellingtons book , OK She is doing Ironman's and not my tiny Sprint Triathlons but I thought, what works for her, will do for me nicely ( many thanks for this Miss Wellington ). So the Swim was done and I had decided to go as hard as possible on the bike , I didn't want to care about the run yet and after 10 km my legs were really tired and for every small Hill I had to change into the small gear, but I soldiered on.
 Lastly the run , again I used the Tactic from Chrissie Wellington since I was not able to run the whole stretch, so I did pick a goal a few hundred meters down the road and ran to that point, walked a bit and started to run to my next point and that way I reached quite happily the finish line, I was probably the 10th last in the Race but I don't care, I finished the race and that is all that matters to me.

Those Buoys are far out ......