Mossman Sprint - TriathlonSprint

While walking to the swim start the first thing that came to my mind was wow this is a long walk! I started in the 4th wave and like usual positioned myself in the back which turned out to be a bad idea. The swim route was simple, run into the water and swim out to the 1st buoy, make a right turn and swim straight while keeping the buoies on your right and then a final right turn and swim to the shore. So I ran into the water and started my stroke and immediately started running into people who looked like they started out in a breaststroke! I couldn’t get any clearance and had to keep on stopping If I could do it over I would have started on one of the front edges because I would have been able to at least get into a grove for the 1st 150-200 yards before I started to slow and rest which I think would have saved me some time. Over the course of the 30 min swim, the people in the 2 waves passed me and I stopped 4 times, 2 times holding a buoy, 1 time a life guard floaty and another time a kayak. I think would do 15-20secs on my back then freestyle for 25 strokes and repeat. This was by far my worse swim effort not only because of time but because I spent so much time on my back my quads were hurting which I feel had an effect on my bike which I will discuss later.

This was my longest swim so far and my longest open water swim and I realized that I have to rededicate my self to swimming for these final weeks leading up to the NYC Tri since the distance is double and I REFUSE to be in the Hudson river for 1 hour!!!

Went with no socks for the bike since I have been practicing that and wore my watch on the swim so I wouldn't have to put it on in transition

Just be overall faster

So after reaching transiton my bike was pretty easy to spot since most people had already started the bike section. I decided to do the bike and run with no socks and I have been practicing brick workouts without socks for the past couple of weeks so it went well. On this course I feel I could have avg 21mph but do to my quads hurting and me feeling like I needed to save some for the run i didnt go all out on the bike but still a fairly decent time

Swim more efficiently so that I can go harder on the bike

Didnt add my new laces to these shoes so had to tie my shoes but did go with no socks

Felt very good on the run but didn't feel like I was moving as fast as I was. The run is definitely my strong part and I took advantage of this as this is where I mad up the most ground.Seeing people walk gave me motivation to keep going and run harder

nothing

Drank 2 bottles of water, a bagel, and 3 sugar cookies!


My sucky ass swim! But I have a new dedication and will be hitting the pool 4-5 times a week until the NYC Tri


I will definitely do this race next year as a bench mark and it was well organized. Most importantly the T-shirt was a Tech TEE!! lol