The Rookie Triathlon - TriathlonMini Sprint

I have no idea what my actual swim time is because my chip didn't pick me up coming out of the water. My swim and T1 are combined so I'm just guessing on the time as I was one of the top 10 out of the water in my age group.

I started the swim right up front. I'm not the strongest swimmer but it's sure come a long way. I had no problem stay in front and then got passed by a few people after the turnaround. All was going pretty good until 25m left when I ran into a pile of peple from waves before us that were not moving. I feel bad for the one guy that was backstroking into T1 after I pretty much pushed him down with one of my strokes. I lost some time here trying to get around everyone but it was a good, short swim.

Once again I'm totally guessing on this time. I just need swim and T1 to come to 7:14. The swim must've been a little long because I was in and out of transition really fast.

Grabbed my helmet and glasses and I was off. Shoes were on the bike so looking at other T1 times I couldn't have been more than 1:14 which means there's no way I swam that slow.

This was also the first race I had my shoes on the bike and I'm not sure it was faster. I had a hard time getting my feet in my shoes once on the bike course and a couple people passed me as I was slipping them on. I did pass them all again going up the hill.

I pretty much hammered it on the bike. I knew the last couple miles were downhhill into T2 so I just pushed the hills and recovered well on the downhills. Passed a lot of people and was going to make sure nobody passed me. :-)

Pretty happy with this bike because I haven't really been working on a lot of speed since coming back from injury.

Pulled feet out of shoes and got to T2. Slipped my shoes on and I was ready to go. It was still a little cloudy so left my sunglasses and hat in T2 and just took off.

I figured it was only 2 miles so I'd see what I had. From now on I will always tell myself that no matter how much it hurts there's no way it will hurt as much as it did after mile 8 of IMFL with an injury. I just took a cup of water at the turn and threw it over my head to cool off. No real reason to get fluids on this short run just to have them slosh around in my stomach.

Again, not much speedwork since coming back so I'm happy with this pace.

Just hung out with everyone. It's always fun to do the local races and see everyone.


I'm happy with the race considering I have't done much speed work. It's been a couple years since I've done this race and I cut almost 5 minutes off from the last time I did it. I guess there's something to be said for building a bigger base as the years go on.


As always, Jack and Adams puts on a GREAT race!