Take on the Heat Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Had a nice swim. Calculate in the extra distance traveled in the "snake" portion of the swim, plus the exit ladder and run to timing mat, pretty nice swim.

Love the first lap with everyone watching...although, I think I push that one a little too much, and when I finally settle into my stroke, I think I push less and go faster.

W.R. jumped up in front of me to possibly set him up for a fast swim. Caught him at about 75 meters in (now thinking of it, might have been 125 in). Liked the extra pressure of knowing I was going to pull him through. Felt like Ricky Bobby doing a little Shake and Bake, hahaha. Wasn't sure if I was going fast enough until after and he told me that keeping my pace almost made him puke. Good stuff. Also glad to see I closed the gap on Aaron. Of course those 2 guys smoke me on everything else, but I will take what I can.

Train longer than 3.5 weeks for an event, hhhhmmm that might work.

Hesitated getting out of the water to make sure I wouldn't hold up W.R., but he was far enough back I could get out and let him zoom by me over the timing mat. Cruised through transition, didn't want to irritate the leg as it is still extremely sore and tight. Took my time in transition.

I can probably save :30-1:00 on transition in the future once I get the whole package together and get it on...

Took off on the bike and felt good. I think the first portion is slightly downhill. Wound out to the main road that had the rolling hills. Felt tight and weak for the first 4 miles or so and started settling in a bit....but yep, water bottle failure again. No time to stop and fix in a sprint and needed the hydration with the soaring temperatures well into the 90's already, so modified my aero position to hold the bottle. Wasn't going to crash this time!! Would have been great to hit a 20mph average, but was close enough for me to be ok with it. Glad the leg was ok on the bike, didn't even notice it.

Legs felt way too strong after the bike so need to push more up front and trust I will make it through. Need some time in the saddle for sure. Not bad for the limited training time this year.

Slow dismount, and trotted into transition. Fairly quick turn around this time, really helps to have a fast swim to get on a good rack.

Push transitions instead of using as recovery, ha

Didn't feel super hot, but could feel the heat when trying to breath. Leg was hurting, but not getting worse. Spoke with Shane before the race and he gave me some good info on the injury and how to minimize it during the run. Just took it slow and steady as I couldn't push off my right leg at all. Felt pretty decent overall. Caught one guy about .5 mile in that looked young and in shape, good feeling, then Kathy smoked by me, dang it. Ran behind her for a while, but wasn't going to be able to maintain, so broke off to get heart rate back in the 160's. Passed up Grady as he cursed us "runners", I yelled back that I was a swimmer...lol fun stuff. Ran with one firefighter that passed me who was 41 also, had a nice chat for a bit, but couldn't keep his pace today. Brought it home strong and was happy with it as a "survival" run time.

Umh, yeah, train more... and maybe loose the heart rate monitor as all it did was make me want to slow down to keep it in the 160 range instead of pushing a little.

Walked and drank water. Yep, thats all. lol Watched Karen take off for her cool down run, enough for me.


Had a good time and took 3rd in old big guys. Not bad, could have easily taken off enough time to get 1st if I knew it was going to be that close. Transitions have a lot of time to save, bike has huge chunks and the run as well. Not bad for an injury and only 3.5 weeks of training, I will take it all day.