Northwoods Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Leapdog told me to start on the left since I was a right-side breather. I had previously decided to start on the outside back right to avoid jostling. I didn't feel comfortable changing my plan at the last minute so I started on the right. Big mistake. 1st sighting I was going perpendicular towards the shore. The whole swim, I kept tending too far right. One advantage - there was no jostling because there was NOBODY near me - haha

Start on the left - I'm pretty sure I'm last wave in my next tri in 2 weeks and I'm really slow so I won't have to deal with jostling anyway.

I forgot to turn my Garmin on before the race so I was piddling around with it. It was drizzling so my shoes and socks were wet

Look at my list frequently so I remember things. Run instead of walk in transition area.

One advantage of being such a slow swimmer is that I got to pass other bikers. However that also slowed me down. I kind of had mental issues with passing and worrying about traffic, of which there was very little. I had biked this course the previous week with a 16.1 but only had a 14.9 in the race
ps - Thank goodness I passed the unicyclist.

Be more aggressive with passing

Messing around with Garmin again

Get more efficient with Garmin or don't wear it. Run in transition area

I passed quite a few people here. Run was comfortable - probably too comfortable

Ramp it up - I should be suffering a little - especially at the end

Got the free ice cream cone at the cafe. Got a 1st place age group plaque. The other lady in my age group (there were only 2 of us) came over and had her husband take a picture of the 2 of us with our plaques - that was nice.

My post-race meal later was a steak with blue cheese, garlic shrimp, augratins, a piece of turtle cheesecake, a piece of chocolate-peanut butter tart, and 3 truffles


Covered that above


I'll be back next year to redeem myself. Need to remember to register right away because it fills in January