Memorial Hermann Houston Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

I got my 1500m swim completed. I didn't swim fast or straight, in fact I decided to swim a bit wide to get out of the full contact area. I was clearly holding up the pack and was getting my feet taken out from me repeatedly. I am pretty sure I added a 100-200m to this swim by going wide both loops. Swam steady and slow when I was contact free. Sighting was a mother on the way back on both loops since the sun was right where we needed to see (I actually sighted off the sun for awhile).

Get faster so I am touching feet and going around instead of being the one who is getting run over. Although pitifully slow this was a good swim - I didn't freak and got back in the water for the second loop (there was some doubt pre-race)

At least a 1/4 mile run to T1 from the swim on tarp covered sand and carpet covered concrete. I think the RD did the best he could with what he had to work with. Next year the community will have more water so the course will be likely quite a bit different.

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Bike went pretty well. I stayed conservative on the power meter and just watched the power average and tried to keep it 220-230W. Quads and Hams were burning a bit towards the end (breathing was fine). I attribute the legs to not enough time in training on this bike in aero and not enough time on the bike since the HNH 100.

Train more. I am sticking with 20 mile rides for a bit until I am sure I have the fit issue worked out and then will creep up from there.

Nothing fancy - conservative dismount / nice and easy swap of the shoes and off I go.

Year 2 I will start working on flying dismounts or something that allows me to run in transition without bike shoes. I decided to avoid this altogether year 1.

305 wasn't on when I grabbed it on so it needed to find satellites (knucklehead). About a 1/2 miles later it picked up and told me I was running at 8'/mile pace. I actually think I came out of transition a bit faster which is really good for me off the bike. Unfortunately the pace dropped as I went until the ramps at the stadium really did me in. I had to push to get back to 9'/mile pace and finish up just under 3 hours.

Make sure the Garmin is on when the race starts.

As usual, On Ur Left puts on another great race. Volunteers were great. Water / G-ade / Heed was cold. Pizza was warm. Really nice T-shirt and finisher medal. The police officers were AWESOME. This course crossed the paths of the traffic quite a few times and it seemed to me the racers got the right of way every time. I thanked every officer I came to because I was stopped for traffic for quite awhile in my first DU. The bike /run course was pretty well marked. There were only a couple of spots that took a second to figure out where to go. Great job again by Aaron and OUL - I am positive they will take the comments and make it even better next year. I will likely give the two "local" races for me a shot again next year (Bridgelands + Towne Lake)