New Jersey Devilman Triathlon - Half Lite 50 Course - Triathlon

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/493546697
Water was cold. Difficult to breathe into the water. At the beginning there was a lot of contact with other swimmers. I had a fractured finger and was trying not to get hit or be hit. Got hit lightly on the hand 2 or 3 times. I thought to myself, "Why am I doing this?"

Ranked 112/193 overall and 15/21

Taking off wetsuit I forgot to undo the leg zipper and caused a small delay. Put on a long sleeved shirt which caused a minor delay. Put on socks, shoes, glasses, helmet and ran with bike. Ranked 132/193 overall and 12/21 age group in T1

Short sleeve shirt, run faster from swim to bike.
In my age group fastest time was 1:10 and the people finishing in front of me did T1 in between 1:10 and 3:00 minutes with an average for the first 6 of 2 minutes.
I should be able to take at least 1 minute from this time.
1) quicker run in, ??

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/493546699
First loop was in 20 mph, Second loop in 18.6. In one loop you were with the wind going out and against the wind coming back. I could feel that I was pushing a little too hard the first loop based on my plan to go slow, so on the second loop I slowed down and let a few people pass me. That was tough to do!
Nutrition: 1 gel/hr and Hammer Perpeteum. Had 3 bottles with a good amount of one bottle left over

was 90/193 on bike and 9/21 in age group

The plan worked. Maybe go a little faster on the bike, since I had too much left on the run or go faster on the run!

8/12 in age group, 100/193 overall The average of the top 6 was 1:24 in age group. It is interesting to see that T2 order was the same as the final finish order? What was with that?

run faster?

Run place 49/193 overall and 6/21 in age group.
Too start with I went to the latrine for a long pee - I decided to be comfortable in the run. I knew I didn't want to start too fast and try to negative split the run. I did this
I was searching for the people that I knew who passed me on the bike. This gave a positive attitude through mile 6. I think that after I passed a number of people that I saw pass me on the bike I lost a little focus and slowed down. I didn't see the mile marks and felt a little lost as to how much distance was left in the race. The last part of a mile I went much faster trying to catch anyone in my age group. Passed a guy at the end but he was in a one younger age group.

Nutrition: had 1 gel
and waist belt of 7oz bottles filled with hammer perpeteum. Only took water once after gel at about 3 miles.

When the watch sings the ending song I need to believe it! I should have started the run on the watch immediately so that I knew where I was on the course. The mile markings were not prominent. On the other hand I never looked at my watch for the run to see how fast I was going and just felt my running speed relative to my energy level.

walked


Slowed down too much after mile 7. If I had kept the downward progression of min/mile I would have finished about a minute faster. In the last 0.2 miles I went from 8 min/mile to 5:11 min/mile.

The other part is perhaps I started the run too slow at 9 to 8:48 min/mile for the first 2 miles (or I took a really long time to pee!).



This is a good race. Water is cold, but the weather for the bike and run was good.