General Smallwood Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Just didn't get into the groove on this one. after rounding the far bouy, I spotted incorrectly and ended up crossing the course to round one of the earlier bouys - my dumb mistake. So I headed back the correct bouy to avoid any possibility of DQ, and pressed on. That little detour added about 150 yards to the swim, I'm guessing.

Sight the course correctly - duh!

LONG T1 run from swim to transition - we actually ended up leaving footwear at the swim exit to put on for the ~250+ meter jog. I think I passed at least 8 people taking their sweet ole time during T1, so that redeemed the swim a bit in my own mind. Had some issues getting my wetsuit off, and should have stripped it off immediately after the water exit, vice running with it on to T1. God, that thing gets hot QUICK!

Take the wetsuit off as soon as possible. Otherwise, just HUSTLE more!

I refuse to complain about my bike performance. I know it sucked for my personal internal standards, but until I come to terms with my own discipline and train on the bike as I should, then I'm not going to point to any shortfall here except for my lack of training. The buck must stop with this race - I cannot push through the bike segment competitively on heart alone if I want to compete at the level my ego wants to be at!

Nothing - executed the bike segment as fast as the legs were conditioned for.

T2 seems a little slow for me compared to my norm, but I really don't have anything to specificly point out - again, just need a couple more ounces of HUSTLE!

nothing.

I felt pretty good on this run. Quite honestly, I should have dropped the hammer ALOT earlier than I did; As soon I completed the big hill climb, I should have begun the pace pickup at that point, but I think I waited until about mile 2ish to really start pushing. I wasn't passed at all on the run, and took at least 10 people during the course. Again, I had more to give on this one.

Begin the push earlier. I keep forgetting how short sprint runs are!

Really didn't warm down much at all, beyond the GREAT company of all of our wonderful BT friends at a cookout! I'm not sure if Killians counts as a recovery drink or not - I'll have to check out my nutrition references. After breaking down transition, the party continued for another 14 hours!! I love our new BT friends, specifically in attendance were docswim24, shelly123, klgray, newleaf, tink and myself, along with a Scouting friend of mine (Sue) who raced, and plenty of supporting family members. BTW, Sue, when are you joining BT again? ;-) I think the after-race fun trumped the race fun by a longshot for me on this one!


Need to get serious on my bike and brick training - I can see the potential, but just not doing the time required to build the base fitness high enough. Only myself to blame - but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Family life is pretty darn busy!


Well-run race. I think there was a need for more race volunteers on the bike course, and too mush reliance of the police officers manning intersections to direct athletes. A good friend was robbed of an AG place finish due to an officer errantly waving him through a turning intersection, adding 5.2 miles to his bike segment and completely taking him out of contention. I won't call him out by name as it's water under the bridge now, but it certainly negated a very good effort that could have been avoided.