Galena - TriathlonSprint

I rocked this swim. I knocked off almost 2 minutes from last year. Got into a groove and only had one minor sighting issue right off the beach. After that, never had a problem. Sighting was awesome. Turnover was awesome. I was just FLYING!. Loved it.

Nothing.

I was actually faster on this one compared to last year too. By almost a minute. And it felt so ungodly slow. Probably because I forgot to loosen my shoes (DOH) but other than that, it went very very well.

Remember to prepare my shoes. Probably would have gotten them on and knocked off another 15-20 seconds.

Compared to last year I nailed it. Almost 3 mph faster than last year. My biking has really improved since last year. I even rocked the big hill better than last year. 1/2 way up the hill I realized I was mashing so I started concentrating on circle pedaling. Immediately I increased my speed by over 1mph.

This also happened to be at the same time that as I was passing a guy, he said "Almost there. Just around the corner and then it is downhill the rest of the way." I immediately called him a lying sack of s**t while laughing and told everyone around to ignore him. All in good fun.

Popped over 40 on two of the last downhills. What a rush!



Maybe push it just a little bit harder on the down hills. I probably relaxed a bit too much saving for the uphills. Also, I drank too much water on the ride. I was burping a bit coming into T2 and I paid for it in the run. More on that later.

Since here a pretty good size hill coming into T2, I didn't have a chance to slip my feet out of the shoes coming into T2. So I had to do it after I racked the bike. Slowed me down, but I was still faster than last year by 8 seconds. Slipped on some socks and then the shoes, grabbed the visor and race belt and off I went.

First 1-1.5 miles I had a side stitch, lower right side. So I kept the pace fairly slow and really tried to focus on running upright and breathing in deeply. Makes it hard when you are going up hill. Finally got the stitch out but by that time the damage had been done. I picked up the pace but the hills were killing me. Still, I finished relatively strong.

Not drink too much on the bike. Other than that, continue to push through pain on the run.

Walked around and found Mark and chatted with him for a bit (he finished in 1:27, damn he is smoking fast). Then Beth, Mum and Dan came in (missed me again but oh well). Waited around, got my bike and then my gear and we were gone.


Cramp and little to no training on hills.


This is such a good race and well run. It is particularly well run considering it is a point to point. Takes lots of logistical coordination and they do it well. My only complaint is how they do the results. They do not give enough info, particularly how you did within each leg. Sure I could probably cut and paste the info into Excel and figure it out but I'm too lazy. I will be back again next year.