Morgan Hill Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Well, what can I say. Another disaster of a swim. Feel like I've put a lot of work in the pool that is not translating to race day. Need to look into doing something different to change this up but not sure what. I thought maybe in last race I didn't push myself hard enough and that resulted in my poor result last time. Tried to push a little harder this time, with similar poor result.

Possibly look at either wetsuit fit or getting sleeveless.

Right as I got to my bike it started pouring rain. Apparently had been raining during the swim too. Hands were cold and couldn't get my wetsuit off. Considering how much I thought I was struggling, time is remarkably similar to other T1s.

Need to figure out how to get out of suit better.

With the wet, rain, and cold, it was hard to push. Took the corners really easy. Realized on one decent before the hard right hander that I had forgotten to close the lever on front brake. Oops. So went really slowly that entire decent before the turn. Started picking it up after that point though. There were a couple cars on course that I got stuck behind. That probably caused my a few seconds, but can't blame performance on that.

Nothing. Did ok considering mental attitude and wet course.

Had set up T area poorly, and hard hard time reaching running shoes. Hands were cold making hard to change.

Set up area better.

Felt pretty good on this run. Didn't take Garmin for the run, just wanted to run based on feel. As usual, after first mile or so, legs came around and felt pretty good. Faster run split than last year.

Nothing.

Walked around some and had some water and Muscle Milk. I do like the MM after a race.


Rain and attitude.


Good race. Started on time. Did appear that there were fewer volunteers than last year. Parking was ok, and there did seem to be enough racks this year.