J hawk latebird - TriathlonSprint

Started as swimmer 3 in lane 3. Both the second swimmer and I caught the first swimmer by the 2nd lap. We had a full lap on him by the end of swim. Why do these people insist on lying on their swim times? I just stayed focused on staying within myself, staying long and counting laps.

Nothing, easy swim.

Shoes clipped in, raining hard. Could not get my shoes tight because of the rain.

Wear more neoprene in an attempt to stay dry?

Decent ride, not my best, but decent. It was cold and I had decided earlier that I was not going with a jacket, arm warmers, nothing. I spiked the HR on the hill coming out of T1 and never let it recover. Wanted to ride at 230 watts and ended at 224 average. Just didn't feel like the legs were with me today. I just kept pushing, every time the LYC would drop I would just keep pushing. I think it actually started hailing a little around mile 10.

Avg = 224
NP = 240
VI = 1.07
TSS = 72.0
IF = 1.054


I don't know what I could have done differently. It was wet and I made sure I wasn't going down but don't think I dialed it back anywhere on the course very much because of the road surfaces.

Decent T2. Learned that shoes full of rain water are hard to get on. No socks today.

Cover my running shoes with something?

I don't know about my run. I either need to use this race as further motivation to keep my running up all winter, or I just need to start only bike racing. I am so sick of coming off the bike towards the front and then getting passed by these guys running 6:xx minute miles. Frustrating!!! I mean really, I lost over 4 minutes to all three guys that placed ahead of me in my AG in a 5K, 4 minutes in a 20 to 25 minute run?

So, get into T2 and shoes were soaked and so was the course. Lots of mud on course and the 1/4 miles wood bridge was like a skating rink. Anyway, everybody got to run on the same course and it was tough. I ran the first mile right on planned pace and then tried to pick it up and found I had nothing left to push.

Couple of very tricky downhill wet grassy corners on the way home. Tried to push the last 1/4 mile with everything I had.

Run, Run, Run.......

Hire some Angry Kenyan dude in an attempt to make me faster?

Take any suggestion that anybody makes about running abilities?

Just realize that a 7:xx minute mile is my overall max speed?

Got some food and went to get my stuff out of the rain. Got packed up and took a warm shower. Changed and went to check results. Saw my results, realized that my run killed me again and tucked my tail between my legs and drove home.


Hmmmmmm ... maybe my run pace?


This is always a good race to test your year end fitness.

New Sprint PR and I improved my splits in this race in all three disciplines plus both transitions over last fall. Plan going into this race was 8 - 37 - 24. I went 7 - 38 -25. I think I am ready to Age up, maybe M45-49 will be easier on the ego .....