Falmouth Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Swim was definitely shorter than 1/3 mile, but my swim times are typically middle of the pack for all other races (lakes). I think in reverse order of influence
1. the salt water greatly aided me,
2. I'm getting more accustomed to my wetsuit and
3. this particular race had a lot of novice swimmers.

Practice in salt water/waves. Eventually had to breath every stroke which I've been able to overcome in lake swims.

transition time imbedded in bike. I was very quick taking off suit and getting gear for biking on A+!

Still a bit slow getting into toe cages. Once on bike took it easy for a little too long.

Pretty good bike ride but I think I left something on the table over the first 2 miles. Given the short distance I didn't totally kill it to the extent I wanted to. Lots of traffic to navigate though as I was in 8th swim wave and there were lots of slow bikes on course.

Go out at high RPMs and steadily increase gear over first .5M

T2 embedded in run

Nothing, super quick here

Surprised at my overall rank for run of 112th being weakest compared to 54th in swim and 67th on bike. I guess its partially because lots of triathlon newbies coming from a running background. Definitely lost some time here though as couldn't quite get into a good 7:30 or lower cadence. Just too hot and tired.

Push it just a bit more over first mile knowing that I will loosen up. I was able to kick pretty well over last 1/10 (someone passed me and I somewhat psychotically had to pass them back!) so there might have been a bit more there. No running this spring is coming back to bite me as my speed tops out shy of 7:30s

lots of water, walking and watching


pre-season wasn't able to run due to achilles tendinitis


Great race, goal was under 1hr and missed by just 34 seconds. Only minor critique is they didn't post results quickly and post-race areas were a bit fragmented and hung out less than typical. Lots of water and food though, the site layout simply made the post-race difficult to stage. Very surprised that last year 1hr in 45-49 woulda been good for 6th/38 and this year it was 13th/47. Crazy Competitive age group!!