Gateway to the Bay Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Okay for the first race of the year, but certainly shows a lot of room for improvement. I got caught in the scrum for the first half of the swim, and never really felt things settled down.

Start futher to the right to get out of the crowd.

Long run from the beach to transition. Wet Suit Strippers were excellent.

Nothing....but the fast guys picked up a minute on me in T1.

I tried to put out a medium-high level of effort. I felt this was a good strong bike for me.

Need to work on more consistent pacing. Would have liked to have one bottle along for an end-of-ride drink. This ride was closer to 12.5-mil than 12-mi. I slipped my feet out of my shows a little before 12 to be ready for T2 and ended up riding for quite aways with my feet on top of the shoes.

Smooth...no real issues, but I still give away 45-seconds here compared to the fast guys.

Solid run for me. Took about a half mile to get into stride, then hit a pretty good pace. Started to slack off the last 1/4 mile or so, and had a few people pass me at the end.

Hold pace and maintain to the end.

Swim and transition work should let me pick up 3 or 4 minutes


Good race to kick off the season. It was well organized, but the swim start was a little chaotic, and the lady trying to coordinate things really needed a PA system as it was pretty impossible to hear her. Also, time between waves was a little too tight. I was in the back of the chute, and just barely made it to the start line when my wave took off. I'm sure some of the stragglers got caught unaware!