T-Gator Series Triathlon #2 - TriathlonSprint

At T-gator #3 here last year, same swim, I went out too fast, lost my breath, panicked, and nearly drowned. Was a lot more cautious this year.

Turned out to be a non-event of a swim, best pace I could muster, didn't get too badly trampled by the ladies in the wave behind me.

Learn how to do this right.

Short (50 yd) run from river to transition. Got helmet on and left, decent mount, got up to speed and put shoes on.

Nothing, pretty clean. Weren't but 10 or so faster.

From the start there was a young guy in front of me hugging the center line. Coming out the park I hollered "on your left" to get hinm to move over, had to do this several times as he would pass me, hug the middle, then I'd pass him. After the race he apologized and said he had wrecked last year riding the shoulder, and was a little skeered. I told him about blocking penalties and that he was lucky he didn't get written up. ;)

Other than that, decent ride. Seemed to be a slight headwind or rise going out, as I was about a full mph coming back in.

Not race the day before? I could feel yesterday in my legs, proably could have gone faster on fresher wheels.

Ended up passing middle-line guy on the right coming into transition. Dismount was perfect, short run to rack, put on shoes and grabbed race number, then had to run the length of tansition to the run exit.

Nothing, again this was pretty clean.

Too short and painful to even think about it.

Nothing. As I said about yesteday's race, my running is still not where it should be due to injuries.

Drank some gatorade, watched the other finishers come in. About five minutes after I finished, Angel walked up and said, "you finished too soon, I missed it." She was at a table grading papers and didn't even see me come in. Some support! At least I got her to drive home while I slept.

Second of two weekend races, my first double weekend. Race report from Saturday here: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp...


Racing yesterday, insufficient run training, lack of swimming skills.


Second triathlon in a four-race series put on by the Lake Charles Triathlon Club. Good bare-bones race, well-organized, nice venue, no T-shirts, awards or amenities.