T-Gator #1 - TriathlonSprint

I am glad I had a wet suit. The water was cold enough to make your breathing labored but tolerable. Not like Meat Pie where the water actually caused me pain.

I felt my form was terrible. I am not used to this wetsuit yet.

My goggles fogged up because I forgot to lick the insides. Made my navigation harder as I had to stop swimming to look out the periphery of my goggles but nothing major to over come.

There was a slight current in my favor. That was a nice surprise.

Being a new suit I will work on just getting used to it.

The transition counts into the bike legg....which I hate but that's the way it is.

For some insane reason I started putting on my running shoes in T1. I'm not sure why but lets chalk it up to me being sick.

Put the proper shoes on?

Okay, got on the bike and my legs began to fatigue quickly. I kind of got made and decided to just push as much as I could. One of my goals is to average 20mph on the bike on any race. Well this was only 10 miles and where was a chance I could pull this off.

I was pleasantly suprised to see my speeds at 21-22 on the way out. Legs were tired after mile 1 but I was encouraged by the speed.

Turns out I had a slight tail wind on the way out. On the way back I was keeping 18-19mph even with the head winds. I just may make my 20mph average goal!


Give my current health status I think I did pretty good. I'm calling this a "good" bike because the speeds may not reflect it but I did push even though my legs were like lead.

Despite what the race results say my computer on my bike says I averaged 19.55 mph which is very encouraging. At 100% health I could have done 20 easily.

Running shoes on and I was out of transition very quickly.

I felt really strong out of T2. If I could have kept that pace I would have moved up at least 3 spots in my age group. Kind of had the heavy leg problem after a half of a mile but finished strongish.

I did well considering my current health status. Calling it a "good" run because of the effort.

Walked and drank some Powerade, ate some Oreo's.


Being sick I would rate my health at 80% max of optimal. I have been resting most of the week trying to recooperate. I knew something was wrong on Tuesday when I couldn't finish my bike training.


The race went off without a hitch. It rained a little bit right before the swim start but the roads were dry. The bike course is about as straight as you will ever get and the roads are good.

The water was a little cold for the swim but the current was a nice surprise.

22 of the 100 contestants were in my age group. I did all my age group rankings by hand so I may be off but it can't be by much.

One bad thing about the wave starts.... I get passed alot more. Usually all the people who are faster than me I never see...but this way I see alot more of them.

Even being sick I managed to achieve one of my goals today.... Do it in under an hour and I comfortably did that...yeah me!