Oshkosh Triathlon - Sprint Distance - TriathlonSprint

I felt like I was swimming a lot faster than my time shows. I'm usually an 8 minute/400 meter swimmer but there was a decent length run to transition so maybe that time was included in the swim? I think I was the 5th one out of the water in my wave of 50 though. Also ran into a huge ball of weeds floating in the water so I had to fight through that.

Sight more often. Possibly swim faster, I'm just not ecstatic about the time.

I'm pretty happy about this transition. This was my first race and nothing went wrong. I even got the wetsuit off very quickly.

Running start when mounting the bike?

Road was wet with some puddles. Took turns pretty slowly so I wouldn't eat it. Passed a lot of people, only got passed by one guy but I didn't feel too bad about it since he had disc wheels and an aero helmet (so I figured he was a bit more experienced than I). Cruising speed was over 23 mph and pretty comfortable but turning and re-accelerating brought my average speed way down. Didn't drink any water.

FASTER!

Came to a complete stop, then dismounted. I'll know better next time.

Should have drank a little water.

I need to do more bricks when training. Legs were tight right off the bat even though I was pretty comfortable on the bike. First mile took about 8:35 but luckily I did the next two faster. I can do 6 miles at under 7 minute mile pace so I need to get that to translate here to shed a couple minutes. Very disappointed in my run overall.

Need to get more accustomed to running off the bike.

Nah, just wandered around.


Wish I would have trained more. Signed up 4 weeks before the race and wish I had maybe 2 more weeks. It's all about the bricks from now on.


I had a great time with my first triathlon. Pretty well put together race.