Caine Halter Family YMCA Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Time out of the water was 4:43, which isn't too bad. About what I expected. I did OK on the flip turns, though they could have been better. I had to pass 3 or 4 people and there was PRECIOUS little room to do so. That slowed me down a good bit.

I probably could have gone a little harder, but the main thing of course is more training.

This looks slow but it isn't. There was a LONG run into T1. My time is tied for 3rd best T1 overall. I'm pleased that I improved my T1 so much in this race. I don't think I could do it much faster except by running a bit faster into T1. Flying mount went great.

I guess this was a pretty good bike. I never know whether I'm going hard enough on these short sprint courses. I wasn't moaning in pain, but I wasn't soft-pedaling either.

Alas, I witnessed a decent amount of drafting from two riders on this course. That's really too bad, because one of them podium-ed (not my AG) and should not have. This course is short enough (given that it is three loops) that really there could have been draft marshals watching pretty much the entire thing.

Maybe ride harder? Maybe not. I don't know.

This was a fast T2. Not much more I could do. Fastest T2 overall was 25s. I was third fastest overall. I fumbled with my shoe for about a second, or I might have been right there at 25s.

Not much.

I still can't run at full intensity, but I didn't have to walk or shuffle or anything -- I ran it in all the way. I think I could have gone harder at the start, in fact.

Probably go harder at the start. I was worried about tweaking the hip so maybe going easy was right. I don't know. Why does this pacing thing have to be so hard???

I wandered around a bit, packed up my stuff, then met a few BTers. It was nice to meet the real people behind some of the usernames! Really nice guys, all of them.


A good race. I hate pool swims, and the lanes in this pool were especially narrow, but still the race was very nicely done. The bike course was fun and a bit technical, and the run course was really nice.