Memorial Hermann Bridgeland Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Swam strong and decided not to bother drafting off anyone. Pushed the swim harder than normal knowing the competitive field that was there I needed every second I could gain. Came out of the water only 10s ahead of Brad

Nothing. Think I'll start pushing the swim regularly, I was able to recover quickly on the bike.

Results screwed up my T1 time so I'm estimating it. No sunglasses this time so it was just helmet on and run out.

Nothing

Finally broke 25mph on the Powertap and results! Brad ran me down in transition and we started biking at the same time. I look down to see 25-25.5mph and he is gapping me with ease, later when talking with him find out he was going ~28mph then.

After the 1st u-turn I saw a pace line gaining on me, tried to hold them off but with ~1mi to go Milford tapped me on the back to let me know he caught me, punk! Road into transition with the pace line of ~5 guys and saved my legs as much as I could since I knew all these guys could run.

I was conservative with my pacing because I haven't done many threshold/V02max intervals yet this season. Ended up with an average of 272W, for a sprint this should really be 300-320W.

For this time of my season, nothing. Once I get some harder intervals under my belt the avg power better be 300+

Came out of transition right behind Milford and could tell he couldn't get his legs moving cause he wasn't gapping me. Ran behind him for the first mile or so and then he took off. Shortly after I was being passed by a few other guys then Ritter flew by me, could tell he was hauling!

I held a great pace for me and current training, just amazing how fast those guys can run.

Nothing for now, need to gain more running speed.

Current training has just been building volume, need some more intensity for the sprints especially for my running.

Overall I'm happy with the race, I swam/biked/ran faster than last year and had a great time racing against some tough competition.


Aaron has improved the race by a ton from last year. He has listened to the feedback of the athletes and implemented every valid issue/suggestion I've heard. It started with a great packet pickup, well executed race, great post race and awards. I look forward to his future races and hope to be back at this one next year.