Clemson Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

There is a long up hill run to the transition. I over took the number 1 swimmer in the transition by 25 seconds.

I hated swiming in the full wetsuite. I should have been better prepaired. I love what the wetsuit does for you but now that I have learned to swim over the winter, i hate the way the wetsuite feels. This could have been very eaily fix by doing a couple of open water swims to get use to the feel of the suit. I felt myself forgetting what I learned about reaching & rolling in the water. I kept taking little baby pulls, however I was kicking like a wild man. I have been doing this long enough to know better then to not practice the way you will race.

I found myself, telling myself "stop playing around and get out of the transition area and get those legs moving".

I actually did something different. I road and ran without socks for the first time ever. Bike shoes, Cannondale Eclips, Running shoes, Nike Lunna Racers. I never once thought about the pre race decission to go this route. So it actually was a good plan. I put body gliude all over the top of the running shoes. ( the area that when the shoe is on, makes contact with your anckle), also one the underside of the tounge of the shoe (when the shoe is on this area makes contact with the top of your foot)

The ride out of transition to the hiwy and returning back from the hiwy to transition is an old golf cart path that has alot of very big, very old trees lining it. The trees have not been kind to the path over the years and have made it very, very, very dangerous.

See the section that I added for what I would do diffrent on the T1 section.

I did not ride with feet on top of shoes, I did losen shoes so that when I dismounted I was ready to get out of my shoes.

I need to work on getting running shoes on wet feet with no socks. The shoes are so thin that when I tried to get them on, the top of the shoe (the top lace eye) on both shoes rolled to the inside of the shoe, so I had to fool with that.

See T1 coments about shoes.

Nothing, This was a really good run for me.

Went for a 6 mile run after the race, Racing in the Rock & Roll half in 2 weeks so I needed the extra miles for the day.


the fact that 90 % of my current training has all been done at Heart rate zone work. I.E. nothing really hard.


The race started about 7 minutes late, but the reason was becuase there was a big rain wave that pasted over and they wanted to see what was gong to happen with it.