Marsh Man - Triathlon

Best swim since I started doing triathlons. Open water start with about 125 people in my wave. Got out hard taking 6 strokes before a breath for the first 50 yards to get away from the mass of people. Put myself in a little oxygen debt, and started breathing more often. I was passing the people in the 0-34 wave who started 3 minutes ahead by the 200 yards into the swim. Probably ended up passing about 50% of the wave 1 swimmers.

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The cold weather slowed everything down. Wetsuit stuck a little, but the bigger challenge was getting my feet into the shoes with numb feet.

Improve mounting and getting into shoes.

I love this bike course. It short and challenging. It truly isn't a beginner bike course. These are steep and one of them is long, and your legs will burn. I rode in the small chain ring almost the entire way because I don't have the power to mash the big ring efficiently. I think this help keep the legs fresh and powerful for the hills.

Bike long steep hills to exhaustion prior to the race.

My feet were frozen and I couldn't feel them. I wouldn't even know if my shoes were on if I wasn't looking down.

Need to improve dismounting the bike in one motion.

First mile is uphill and second mile downhill, the typical out and back design. The second mile is at least a minute faster than the first. I split 6:45, 5:31.

Take off my skirt and run like a man. My first mile was too slow. Perhaps because there wasn't many others around or I got to complacent. Nonetheless, I ran the first mile more like a 10 mile race vs. 2 mile. I ran faster in mile 2, but I had given up too much time. I should be able to run at least 30-45 seconds faster next year...

2 mile run


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