Ludlow Boys & Girls Club Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I was in the first wave, the under-40 men. Probably about 80 guys. I took the advice of others and started in the back on the outside. That was a little bit of a mistake, because lots of other people did the same thing and it was really congested back there. Some really slow people (one doing the backstroke!) and lots of others swimming all over the place. I remember one time finally finding a lane to squeeze through two guys only to get closed off and have to find another lane. Plus, my left goggle was leaking, so I'd have to stop every few strokes and empty it. And the buoys were on my left, so I really couldn't see them too well. I ended up swimming about 20 yards past the last buoy and then on the way back, got too close to the inside. The womens' wave caught me and I was in the middle of that mess. But I survived and finished the 1/2 mile swim in 16:27.

Get goggles that don't leak, get googgles that aren't blue, so I can see the bright orange buoys. Get in ahead of the back pack.

Try no socks, don't lube up as much.

Definitely the one area that I can do a lot of improvement.

Don't put sunglasses on handlebars, don't eat gu at start of race and go faster.

Very impressed, very fast T2. I was happy.

Learn to dismount faster.

I felt good and felt like I had the right pace throughout. I passed more people than passed me.

Go faster with better training

Non existent, stopped to talk. Should have walked it off.


Eating Gu, dropping sunglasses, goggles leaking.


Firm seems to do a really good job. I look forward to other Firm run events.