Ironhead Dallas - TriathlonOlympic

Great swim for me. PR by nearly 7 minutes. Kept up my freestyle stroke the whole distance. Form got a little sloppy in the middle but overall it was good. No problem with exception of HRM coming off and goggles fogging up quite badly.

Don't swim directly behind that cute girl who kicked me. Forgot to spit in my goggles before the start to keep them from fogging up.

Had tri top for the first time to get through a little faster. Good results. Also went without Camelbak.

Learn to climb into shoes after mount line.

I murdered people on the bike course! Was only passed twice and that was by the race leaders. Kept my cadence high at 90+ for most of the way. Fantastic results: overall finish was 236th but was 88th on the bike.

Tie bike number down differently. Kept flying up and hitting me in the knee. That was just annoying.

Had to rerack the bike next to me to keep it from falling off and get it out of my space.

Keep practicing to get out of shoes before dismount.

Avoided my usual pitfall of starting out too fast and was able to hold a pretty steady pace throughout. Filled my hat with ice at the u-turn to keep cool. Sleeveless tri top made things feel much cooler once the sun came out.

Need to start doing speed and track workouts in the off-season. Other than get faster there's not much else to improve.

Filled my free mug with ice cold water and grabbed a bagel, banana and a handfull of cookies. Met davidb and his wife from BT. I was in desperate need of fluids and didn't really get to talk to them much, but there's always next time. Checked the race results and then packed my gear and headed home.


Swim: Having to deal with HRM falling off.
Bike: Distracted by bike number flapping against my knee.
Run: Still not a fast runner.


Two weeks ago at TriAmerica I PR'd by 12 minutes. Beat that time by 24 minutes today!!! Couldn't be happier to finally break 3 hours! Volunteers did a very good job just like at all of Jack's races. Fans were very vocal in their support as were all of the other racers. This race also had one of the better t-shirt designs. Great race overall and I'll certainly be back next year.