Danskin Triathlon Series - Orlando - TriathlonSprint

I really suffered for the first 100 or so yards; heartrate was sky high and could not get into a rhythm. Finally settled in and started passing people. Could not find anyone to draft off and when I did my sweet bouy roll I ended up having to come to a complete stop as one of the women from the wave i had caught swam right across me. This was a surprise as that meant she was not making the turn! She was obviously having trouble with the swim, so I did not have the heart to run her over; I stopped and then swam around her, Took valuable time. As I think of it, she may have been heading to one of the kayaks. The rest of the swim I encountered struggling swimmers and had a lot of zig-zagging to do.

I need to get my self calmed down at the start so I can get into a rhythm faster and I need to learn how to swim with people cris-crossing in front of me. I was not happy with this swim; although it was about 1:25 faster than last year.

I have no idea why this took so long! Looking at last year, I was 50 seconds slower this time around - what's up with that?

Run faster from the swim, put things on faster!

For some reason, the official time puts my bike pace at 16.3 which seems slow to me; I like what auto-calculate came up with better! I guess the official time also includes the long run from T1 to the course and that explains the difference. Last year we had a longer run out and in and my pace was a tad faster then (per auto calculate), so for some reason my bike was slower this year.

Pedal faster.

Not too bad!

nothing really.

I knew my run was going to suffer b/c i've had to keep my run volume down as I try to heal my inflamed meniscus. Still, I was not prepared for how hard this would be. Last year, for every tri i was able to keep the pace right around 8 mins/mile (last year I did 8:08 in this race) and though I could not sustain anything faster, I could pick it up here and there. This year, not so much. I had nothing left. About .50 mile from the finish a woman in my age group passed me and I could not respond at all. A spectator yelled to me, "I think you can catch her!" I informed him he was wrong :( The last 10-20 feet and right after the finish I thought I might throw-up, so I know I gave it my all. Still, it's disappointing because running is my best event!

Not be injured.

Drank water, skim chocolate milk and ate a banana. Then waited for Janice to finish about 25 mins later.


Lack of natural talent and insufficient run volume!


Despite being 30 seconds slower this year from last, almost drowning at the swim start, and really suffering on the run; I had fun in a "man, you're a masochist sort of way"!