East Fork Triathlon - Sprint Distance - TriathlonSprint

sighting less drunken than usual for me :-)

The swim felt solid and powerful. I was able to bilateral breath consistently and passed quite a few people. Started outside front and that seemed again to be a good spot for me. ran up hill to transition at moderate speed.

run to T1 faster continue work on sighting

still slow

Tim and family cheered me onto the bike. Went out of T1 ready to rock.

Officials strongly suggested people not do the shoes attached to bike mount because of the hill straight out of T1. They said every year they see people fall over trying to get their shoes on and hitting that hill.

practice T1. I hadn't and it shows

gearing trouble- bike didn't shift right. wouldn't shift consistently and it killed me on a couple of early hills. then couldn't get into big ring for several flats and ended up way slower than my usual training speed. went into the run totally blown and pissed. drank and gel on bike

time to have the gears checked I guess

some jerk racked their bike rear wheel right on top of my gear. had to pry it out. stopped to drink

Tim and family there to cheer me on - the one bright spot!

slow for me - probably because my legs were gone after bad gearing on the bike hills and my attitude sucked. I even walked a bit. I was just pissed at the whole thing, knowing I wasn't going to make my goals.

attitude didn't help.

don't walk. HTFU and hang in there

walked slowly. drank a bottle of water, ate oranges and watermelon.


bike/gearing trouble/hills.


challenging hill on bike coming out of T1 makes this race particularly interesting.