In February I swam 1500 m in 25:11 min, my goal for this race was 12 min or less. I planned to hold on to someone faster than me for as long as I could. In my lane was six more people. One of them said that he can swim around 11:30, others were slower than 13 min. "Fast" guy had a good start and I couldn't follow him. After the first 100 m he slowed down a bit. Until the end of the swim his advantage almost stayed the same as for the first 100 m. I got away from the chase group and swam alone on the second place (in our lane, not overall). Swim time includes 200 - 300 m run into transition. So I think my real swim time was around 13:00. I'm not happy with that time. I know I can go much faster.

Swim harder from the start.

Very slow transition.

Train transition. Leave shoes on the bike and learn to jump on the bike.

I passed few people and only one passed me. Almost entire time I drove alone, withouth drafting. I tried to hold on to guy who passed me. I gave him a few shifts, but he drove faster than me through corners. So after any corner I had to work hard to catch him. It became to hard and eventually I let him go. I started with biking few months ago and I'm still not confident on the bike. Cornering was my limiting factor in this race.

Improve cornering and try to find someone to draft with.

Better than first transition, but still slow.

Train transition.

First lap I run behind some guy who run his second lap. I started slow and gradually build up pace. In the second lap heavy rain set in, and run almost turned into swim. I didn't look at my watch but I think that I managed negative split. I could go harder but it was hard to motivate myself. In front of me I spoted a guy who passed me on the bike. I tried to catch him, but I started to late and didn't make it.

Run harder. Run wasn't tough but I couldn't motivate myself to go faster. I was suprised with my run time because it seamed to me that I was slower. My HR was very low. I usually run 5 km races at around 185 bpm, and today my HRmax on the run was 177.

As I sad before by the end of the run heavy rain set in. Temperature droped from 20C to 13C. So I jumped in a pool (water temp 27C) and swam a little. All of my shoes got wet so I had to drive back home with wet feet.


Lack of experience, bike cornering and transitions. This was my first triathlon and I didn't set any time goals. I was happy to finish. Next time I'll try to go faster.


Rain spoiled post race activities. Race was good organized but there was few errors. My teammate had to swim extra 100 m because judges didn't count well.