Pirate Tri - TriathlonSprint

Although my swim time was fast in this race, it felt horrible. I picked the wrong guy to follow right out of the gate. I knew this guy was fast in the water from talking to him, but when the gun went off, I ran and dove after him. Within 100m he was gone. I looked up to find him and he was almost 25m ahead of me already. Turns out he had the fastest swim time of the day....great choice on my part. The guy was cruising. So I went back to the idea that I would wait for a faster person to come up and I would jump on their feet. Well that didn't happen either. A friend of mine came up on my right, also a good swimmer. I knew I could stay with him, so I tried to jump on his feet and got smacked around by the guy just to his right as I misjudged where I was. In the process I took in a huge mouthfull of water and instead of spitting it out, I swallowed it. I ended up breathing hard and having to breathe every other stroke, something I wasn't used to at all. I was just gassed the whole time. I went to round the second buoy and got bumped and ran right into it. Stopped dead in my tracks. Literally.

I swim this fast without the damn wetsuit. I was pissed coming out of the water and nauseous from taking in so much lake water.

Everything.

Took a little extra time here to catch my breath and think about puking to get rid of all the water I swallowed.

Get out of that damn suit faster!

This bike ride felt pretty good. I think I only got passed by 1 or 2 guys. I didn't feel as strong as I could have because that water kept sloshing around in my stomach and kept making me nauseous! I traded places with one guy a couple times. He was really hammering. I couldn't give as much as I wanted to because of my stomach.

Hammer harder. Not swallow the lake on the swim.

T2 was pretty good. I didn't have any issues at all. I wasn't sure at first which way to go out for the run, so I just followed another guy...who had a KILLER T2 time. I passed him on the bike and he caught my in T2 and I never saw him again.

Nothing at this point.

This run was tough for me. A lot of sloshing stomach. Too much crap in there.

Once again, I watched a ton of people in my age group pass me on the run. I was trying to push it, but my lunges just wouldn't take it. I don't know what the deal is. I am making improvement, but still the slowest runner out there.

Run more, run more, run more.

Went for a mile or so jog with my buddy.


Drinking the lake.


This was a good race and I would love to have another go at it next year. I think I can do much better. I also hit my watch at the start and it didn't start....really pissed me off.