HRCA Tune Up Sprint Triathalon - TriathlonSprint

Pool swim, went by really quick. Just held a decent pace and didn't fall off at all. Probably left a little on the table on the swim. There was a pretty good distance to the transition area so the actual swim time had to be quite a bit faster.

Swim a touch faster.

Good transition, I actually thought this was a lot slower due to the long run to the TA. I took my time, got socks on, etc. Put cycling shoes on and did a regular mount...still need to learn the running mount.

Running mount with shoes on the bike? still not sure if this really saves time as once I clip in I can get up to speed right away.

Bike was tougher than I thought it was going to be, there were some pretty good hills so I couldn't realy get in a good rhythm. Town center was a good hill, and then broadway there must have been a headwind because it looked downhill but I wasn't moving too fast. once you're on Wildcat reserve its all downhill and you are moving pretty quick. I think the course is slightly longer as my computer said 12.8 miles and all the splits looked slow.. Only got passed once or twice and passed a few.

keep a slightly faster cadence on the hills.

Felt like a decent transition. Took my time getting out of there but no mishaps.

could have moved a little faster

This sucked. I was hoping the extra running i've been working on would pay off but I got side cramps really bad again and was going really slow. Its uphill at mile 1 and I got passed by a girl and got pretty ticked! Once I got turned around and got some gatorade and was heading downhill I caught my breath and picked up the pace..but I gotta do much better than this! I need to shoot to average about 7 mins.

Run faster, somehow prevented the cramps? Not sure how to do this...

Not much, walked around and stretched a bit


Run.


I ended up leaving the race very concerned about the way they were directing traffic at HR pkwy outside the rest center. During the race I was hauling through that section of the race course and didn't give it a second thought...but as I watched some of the riders later in the day the cops were doing a horrible job! They weren't even facing the direction that the racers were coming from and multiple times I watched them let cars go right when bicyclists were on their way! They also badly needed an officer or volunteer by the church parking lot to the south of the rec center. Even when I was on the course(6:10 - 6:40AM)there were people coming and going right in the middle of the race course, and later I watched a bad accident with a racer where a car pulled RIGHT in front of him going 25+mph and the rider struck the car went end over end and got badly injured...police, ambulance, firetrucks, etc. Not sure if I'd do this tri again due to safety concerns.