Jetton Triathlon 2009 - Triathlon

Swim was good. I didn't push too hard as I was unsure of my overall fitness and wanted to save some for the bike and run.

Kick more. In the pool, my pulling is horrible - all my power comes from my legs. If I start kicking more w/ the wetsuit I can shave a minute or so off my time.

I lost a lot of time here. I had my shoes rubber-banded to my bike so that I wouldn't have to mess with them in T1. Although I practiced the night before w/ no problems, I hard a difficult time getting into the shoes in the race. Turns out I neglected to open the straps up.

Open the shoe strsps up.

Bad start to the bike. As mentioned earlier, I couldn't get into my shoes and lost a lot of ground trying. Got passed by a bunch of guys while I was messing around with that. Finally got in and kicked it into gear. I made up a lot of time and thoroughly enjoyed passing everybody back up. The A listers were at White Lake, so I had a better bike than usual. The new bike rocked. Still a bit wobbly on it, but it made a huge difference in my overall time.

Open the straps on the shoes. Nothing else.

Great transition. Need to be able to run with no socks so I can shave that 15 seconds off.

Nothing.

My legs felt like led. I'm really surprised I broke 25mins. I was thinking more like 27mins. After 1st mile I loosened up a bit. I really need to get back to a 21min 5k. More training.

Need to run more and do some speed work.

Water and Powerade. Walked around a bit and cheered on the other finishers.


Lack of training.


I'm pleased with my performance given that I've only been back training a few weeks, and sporadically at that. Hopefully the motivation will stick with my for awhile. Love the new bike! I was pretty happy with my bike time, but want to take at least a minute off the swim and 3 minutes of the run.