Iron Brothers Super Sprint Triathlon (Sat) - TriathlonSprint

started at left side; took it easy and got stuck behind slower swimmers. First time swimming open water and did not know how to execute a pass. Kept running into the swimmers in front (3 of them). Was expecting swim time to be around 10 minutes conservatively, but 12:20 was absolutely horrible. Got kicked several times when people in front would switch to breast stroke.

Start out quicker to prevent from getting stuck behind people as much as possible. Get more experience in open water swimming. Get comfortable swimming in close quarters. Learn to pass.

Not used to running barefoot on asphalt; jogged/walked instead; kept shoes off the bike since rack was furthest away from mount point. Put on shoes, then heart rate monitor, then shades, then helmet.

practice running barefoot on asphalt to enable to run. keep shoes on bike and try to mount faster. Look into wearing HR monitor during the swim

Pretty decent performance on the bike and I was quite happy. However, I did experiment and mounted my 808 rear wheel. 2 issues - #1 I forgot to move the sensor magnet over so my bike computer didn't register speed/distance (fortunately, my Garmin 305 was GPS-based and provided me good data) #2 my extra cassette is an 11-25 and my regular one is 11-23. I seem to be in between available gears in the big chain ring. Need to experiment and find right gearing for 23-24mph. Cadence was lower than I usually practice. Very tentative on turns and accelerations due to wet pavement/rain. Shoes felt loose and was moving when I tried to pedal the full circle.

Mount sensor (buy and extra one for each rear wheel). Find right gearing for 23 mph at 92-95 cadence.

got feet out of shoes in time. Didn't run though

Learn faster dismount and run the bike to the rack.

Run was ok. Started off a bit too easy for first mile, especially 2nd half of 1st mile. Picked it up quite a bit for 2nd mile. Started kick about a minute from finish line

Pick up pace better at 2nd half of first mile.

not much. walked around for a few minutes. slight stretching


Better OWS experience. Easily lost 2 minutes not having any experience swimming with people. Also lost too much time in T1. Need to tighten cycling shoes better.


Well-organized race; my first triathlon so still getting a feel for it but I would do this race again and would definitely look for more races with Ironhead Productions!