DQ Triathlon at Kings Grant - TriathlonSprint

A little slower than expected, got out of the water in 12:44, about a minute slower than pool. Got winded before making it halfway out the first leg. Had to do some backstroking and dog-paddling to catch breath before starting again for the rest of swim. Was certainly hoping for better but not hugely disappointed.

Not sure...thought I started pretty slow, which is what I wanted, but got winded anyway.

127th overall. Struggled to get wetsuit off. Trying to think why this takes so long...probably because I'm putting too much on before I start running for the T1 exit. Would love to cut about 30 seconds off this.

Practice with the wetsuit? Almost fell over today getting it off. Maybe go with less stuff (skullie and bike tools, not clip helmet over handlebar.

Really pushed it here for me, wanted to average over 20mph and to heck with the run; didn't get that close. Being a three-loop course I actually saw some of the leaders out there...absolutely stunning how fast they ride, just amazing...makes mewonder if there's something wrong with me. I pushed it past the point of leg soreness; HR averaged 152 so, given the natural lag, I was probably riding around threshold for most of this. And a cadence of 89 is high for me. Took my feet out of the shoes right after making the turn back towards transition...might've been a little too early. Not totally displeased with this ride but not completely satisfied either.

Probably not much.

Another slow transition. Feet were out of my shoes coming in, but I had a little trouble getting one runnign shoe on, had to take it off and do it again. Lost more time when I looked down to hit the Lap button on the Garmin, just before the timing mat, and it wasn't on my wrist! I'd left it on the bike like a moron. Guess that's better than running out of T2 with my bike helmet on.

Remember the Garmin!

Had zero expectations here. After pushing it on the bike I figured this would be a real sufferfest. So I had a very specific plan and I pretty much followed it to the letter. Ran generally easy for four minutes, walked one, and repeated one more time, by which time I was 10 minutes in. At that point I pushed fairly hard for 7:30 (did walk briefly through water stop), walked about a minute, then repeated. Walked another minute then ran generally slow with an eye toward finishing fast the last tenth of a mile or so, maybe looking good for a picture (which has yet to happen). A guy passed me right about there and I basically paced off him for the finish. In the end I was actually surprised by my time; given what I did on the bike, I didn't expect to break 34 minutes on this run. But I actually didn't feel as bad as I'd expected. HR averaged 162 on run; didn't look to see where it was at the end.

I gotta become a better runner. Obviously the swimming sucks, but if I could just do a minute per mile faster it would make a huge difference. Been doing a lot of running for me, but not that much improvement. Some, but not to the point where I'd like to be. Just gotta keep running I guess.

Just some walking around with TSW. Ate an egg sandwich, a cookie, a granola bar, a very skinny banana, and a hard-boiled egg after cooling off. Very unlike me; strange that after the last two races I've really felt the urge to strap on the feedbag and chow down. No idea what's driving that, but in all previous races about all I could do was a banana and a bagel. Sat on a bench with TSW and watched the start of the kids tri; pretty fun, some of the kids were small and their bikes looked like toys you could fit under the tree. We were walking back to parking lot when some of the kids were coming back on their bikes, pedaling to beat the band, had their game faces on too. Saw a couple of over-zealous tri dads, though.


This was a C race, viewed as doing a brick with a couple hundred friends, making it a lot more fun. About the only thing I'd planned was to hammer on the bike to see what I could do, which probably impacted my run. Think I may do more bricks between now and Marlton Lakes, maybe shortening the running parts but pushing a higher intensity.


Another solid DQ race. Although the lake bottom's greasy squishiness was kind of disgusting, I still like this race because the water is shallow enough it eliminates the fear and worry lake swimming can generate, as at NJ State a couple of weeks ago. Can definitely see myself doing this one again. TSW said, "If I ever get up the courage to try one of these, this is the one I'll do."