Long Beach Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

My swim was awful. I ran out of gas early, ended up side stroking for awhile, started free-styling again, got off course, corrected, side stroked, finally made it.

Duathalons, maybe? Seriously, this needs to be dealt with.

This is actually pretty good for me, I have to work on not farting around and streamline this a bit.

Will focus on shaving time off of this in the future.

This was a blast. Unlike my other race, my starting wave was earlier (as opposed to last) so there was quite a few people on the road this time. Felt like a race. I may be turning into a bike guy.

I'd like to come into next season with a better understanding of riding and racing technique.

This time is in the run.

Weird that the T2 time is built in, I thought I crossed mats coming in and going out of the transition area. Oh well, but I was hoping for official verification that I did the run in 25:14, which is what my watch said. I was really happy with the time, especially since I had pretty bad abdominal cramping the first 1.5 miles or so. I assuming the cramps where from drinking a bit too much in T2.

Need to work on getting the drinking right off the bike into the run.

Found Mary & Ian, packed up, walked around a bit.


Mathematically speaking, this was a great improvement over my first race in July. But (and I'm sure you know how it is), my competitive streak is such that I really got down on myself about the swim. Sitting here now though, I am pretty pleased at the overall improvement. Heck, even my swim time was better, just a little ugly.


One little comment, how about some porta-potties in the transition area for athletes only? They where all outside the area. There was a long line of both racers and spectators, and as a result it was a bit of a rush to the start area for some of the racers.