Great American Cooter Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I started this swim front and center since it was wetsuit legal and I was feeling good. 50 yards into it, I was getting a bit worried because things were starting to get a little crowded. I pushed hard and when I sighted at the first marker buoy, there was nothing but clear water ahead of me (what a strange feeling!). I caught some of the stragglers from the previous wave by the time I rounded the first turn, and then backed off the pace a bit to keep my hear rate from redlining.

This was an excellent swim. I think the course might have been a little bit long. Missed the top swim split for my AG by 4.4 seconds. Boooo.

Bad T1 for me. Wetsuit got stuck on my timing chip and I had to use both hands to get my foot out. I was still breathing pretty hard, and it just felt like everything was going in slow motion. With a transition area this small, there's no excuse for being in there more than a minute.
46/152 OA
4/11 AG

I'm not sure. This was the first time I've had that problem with my wetsuit. I've been considering cutting the legs a bit shorter, which should help to alleviate that problem.

It's so nice to start in the first wave and not have to deal with all the novice traffic taking up the whole road. I made it through them all in the first 3 miles, but not without a lot of yelling 'On your left!' to people who were hugging the center line doing 14 mph. Everybody has a right to be out there and I applaud those who are just getting started, but they also need to accept the responsibility of knowing and following the rules.

Otherwise, this was a very good bike. I pushed it just hard enough.

Use plain water or Gatorade in my bottle. I ran out of Gatorade on Friday, so I used some Perpetuem instead. No nutrition problems, but at the effort level I was pushing, it was giving me dry/sticky mouth feeling.

Unremarkable. This is how transitions should go.
28/152 OA
2/11 AG (only 1 second behind the fastest)

The only thing left to do for me to speed up T2 is to get some tri shoes that I can leave on the bike.

I'm extremely pleased with this run split. It's amazing how much the HIM training helped me here.

Grabbed some water and walked back up the run course a bit to wait for Cville.


This officially marks two full years of competing in tri's. My time progression here at the Tri-Cooter:
10/26/08 - 1:21:23
10/25/09 - 1:16:45
10/31/10 - 1:07:27
I also set a new PR for run pace, got my first ever AG hardware at a race where I actually beat someone (previous awards were 2/2, 3/3, etc.), and for the first time ever I beat all of the women.
Alas, now I've set myself a higher standard to live up to, so back to training tomorrow.