Day At The Beach - TriathlonSprint

I'm just not fast, and gas out early. Need to take this out of the pool and into the open water in the early Spring. I know I've said this before, this time I mean it. Ironically, my navigation was spot on, so I feel good about that.

Need to work on the swim.

My guess is that the T1 timing mat was down on the beach as there is no way this took me 5 minutes. Having said that, I had some trouble in T1. I decided to wear a dry, looser fitting running singlet instead of my tri-top because all of last years race reports said it was quite cold and I thought I would freeze on the bike. Of course it ended up that it wouldn't of mattered this year but whatever. So, I had trouble with my wetsuit. Fair enough, it's not like I wear a wetsuit every day. But, I had more trouble putting on the singlet, which pisses me off because I've put on a shirt probably over 13,000 times so far in my life. I should be OK at dressing at 40 years old.



I'm at a loss for reasons why I had trouble with the shirt.

Had some trouble getting into my pedals, but once I was in I thought it was a strong ride. Paced with two other riders most of the way. Enjoyed it.

Not that I could go Aero a lot in this race, but that's a priority skill to develop in the off season.

Not bad, was using my new Zoot TT 2.0 flats so shoes where on fast, though I did take a few extra seconds to put on socks as well. Also, lost some time because my row was a little thick with other racers, plus it was a long way to my rack from the dismount area. But I think it ended up being much faster than Long Beach at the end of the day.

No complaints, really.

Loved the Zoots. This was a personal best for me. Negative splits as well. It just took me a few minutes to get used to running off the bike and then no problems.

Not much to be honest, perhaps transfer some of my running Jedi powers to swimming.

My 4 year old kicked some guys Felt tri-bike, perhaps by accident. But one can never be sure. Had to diffuse/apologize for that and handle my son. All while enjoying a bottled water. Then we just left.


Swimming and more focus in transition. My times on the bike and running are coming along fine.


I though MESP put on a great race.