Title 9 Women Only Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

First time starting with the 35-39 yr age group...always been newbie or athena before. VERY aggressive swimmers, lots of people swimming over or on me, crashing into me from the side, kicking water in my face. Very unpleasant, but didn't impact my time as much as I expected. I'm used to being out front and not having to worry about other swimmers much, but I survived. At one point, had to stop to let another swimmer go in front who was perpetually swimming onto me from the right to be near the buoys.

Start farther out from buoys. The marginally longer swim will be more than made up for by the lack of interference. I, at least, can swim in a straight line, unlike most of the other swimmers I encoutered!

Super slow, mostly because I got stuck behind a walker on the path from the beach and couldn't get around her. Also had difficulty getting socks on wet feet.

Next pair of running shoes will be sized to run with no socks.

Thanks to doing the time trials this summer, I knew I could go pretty much full out on this length of course without running out of steam. Felt pretty good.

I think I could actually go harder and still be ok for the run. Need to work standing in the saddle more to power up the hills.

Quick and easy. Not sure I can do much better. The lock-laces really helped. Grabbed a quick drink since I didn't drink enough on the bike.

Drink more on the bike so I can skip drinking during transition.

Felt good. Better than I expected. Need to drink more on the bike...I suck at drinking on the run...nearly choked at the first water stop when I tried to drink a gatorade while running. Walked a bit to get it down.

Drink more on the bike. Work more on mental toughness. I could have begun my final sprint to the finish much earlier and gone faster, but MT gave in. I didn't 'leave it all on the course'.

Chased kids around. Got a free massage.


Do more interval training. Do more training in general. More MT.


This is a great race. I've done it every year its been offered. Very well organized with tons of helpful volunteers and a great course...well, except for the road surface on the bike.