Pittsford Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

rankings are for females only
Target was 5:15 (yippee beat it :) )
Prior to this year I have never caught anyone on this swim so it has been relatively easy. This year the girl in front of me says "just tap my toes and I'll let you pass" so I thought something was up. Anyway after about 75 I caught her and she had started doing a very W I D E breastroke so I had trouble going all the way round her. Then about 100 later I caught someone else who was not going to make it easy for me to get by. I ended up pushing off below him and fighting for some space when we surfaced. I knew the guy behind me was catching me (he admitted later that he was faster - my time was pretty much spot on I think) but I decided he could fight past me like I had to fight - but he must have got stuck a bit with them cos he never quite caught up with my toes.

Hmm, it's only a littly diddly swim. My time is pretty stable from year to year so I suppose I could work harder to get faster but I get more gains from speed on bike and run.

female 4/131, age group 2/44
target was 1:00 (boo :( )
My transitions are not so good so I was very surprised to see myself up high in the rankings. I'm not usually. Must have gone smoothly.
Oh I didn't sit down to put socks on (I usually do ) but no different to last year in time really so couldn't have made much difference

Socks a little sticky to get on despite rolling them and talc. Got to think about that because that's the only point I think I stuck on. (no i can't ride without them - or more to the point I can't run without them as I get blisters)

rankings are for females only
Biking is my strong point. (I was 26/313 including the boys :) )
Target was 45:00 -yippee, got it :)
My strategy was one I picked up only a couple of weekends ago from a friend which was not to go less than 10mph on the hills. I had to really push myself (and I stood up a couple of times which I don't usually do) but I recover quickly so this works out.

I passed half a dozen people maybe and no one passed me :)

I am thrilled to have got over my 20mph average that I wanted. Nuff said!

Nothing. I love my biking. Oh wait - what do I need to do to shave 5mins off my time?

24/131 females, 4/44 age group
This is more like my transition rankings. What do I do in transition - boil the kettle for a cup of tea?
Target was 1:00 so I got that though

To be fair though, many of the really fast t2 times are those that are wearing sneakers on the bike so don't need to change.

Have tea ready in the flask rather than boiling the kettle

rankings for females only
My breathing was way up and didn't calm down but it was only "tempo" type breathing so was manageable. This felt good (well as good as a run can feel at this stage).
My timing chip strap didn't stick properly so was flapping at one point so I had to stop and try and get that to attach better (Oh wow, may have cost me 5 seconds! - note that ridgelake). I was able to push it some on the home stretch but my kids said it didn't look like I was sprinting at the end - (I felt like I was!)
Didn't take any water.
I didn't overtake anyone and 2 men flew past me (yep I'm sure one of them was really flying he was so fast)
I felt good so was disappointed that (a) I didn't meet my target of 26:30 :( and (b) that my pace was above 8min miles - now changed - the course is 3.35miles(+) and that tips me just under 8minmiles :). There is some debate about length of this course though. I measure it as 3.35 on my garmin and others measure it more in which case I did get below 8min miles.

Running is still my weakness. Same old story. I'm trying OK?

Water, more water and some more. That's about it. Cheered on some people in.


Lack of training hours


Nice local race. Good community and good support.