The course must have been long. I didn't swim all over the place and I swam a similar race a couple weeks ago in 7 minutes. I felt like I swam pretty hard so I wasn't thrilled with the time.

Switch goggles. I wore my clear goggles because it was overcast but I couldn't see out of them very well. I stayed on course pretty well but I had to sight a bit more than I wanted to.

Transition was 1/2 mile-ish from the swim exit so most people brought shoes down to the ramp. I spent a couple extra seconds getting my feet in my shoes because I didn't loosen them up enough. Run up to the bike was fine...just need to be faster. I was 3rd fastest in my age group and 39/135 overall.

Run faster. :)

I had a good ride although I think I burned a couple of matches on the hills...probably everyone did. Avg HR was 138 which is a LT effort for me.

Not much. Given that this was a sprint, I wanted to have just enough gas in the tank to handle a decent 2.6 mile run (they subtracted the long run from the swim to the bike from the run mileage to get the overall run to a 5k distance).

Decent but could be faster. 3/10 in my age group and 40/135 overall.

Going sockless would speed up things.

Coming out of T2 I felt ok. I must have hit it a bit hard because I was hurting at the 3/4 mile point. I wasn't sure if I could make it to the turn around without stopping but I did (it was getting pretty hot by this time). The saving grace was the wet rags and water/gatorade they had at the turn around...who would have thought a little 2ish run would be so hard! I maintained a decent pace on the way back although the extra time drinking/walking the turn around probably cost me a shot at 2nd place.

Train the run a bit more. I ran a marathon in April but I haven't maintained decent run mileage since then.

They had a cold water soaker tub...I took off my shoes and dipped my feet in...ahhh! Got something to drink and rehashed the race with the guy that got first in my division. The RD had a post race food spread set up in an air conditioned building up the hill from the finish line...that's where I headed next. :)


genetics and training.


It was a fun race. The bike was a bit harder than I expected for such a short effort. The swim was ok, but being in the marina cove, I kept getting a whiff of gas fumes. I'd rather swim outside the protection of the cove and avoid the "marina" smells.