Ramblin' Rose - TriathlonMini Sprint

The swim was terrible!!! Atheletes self-ranked on a scale of 1 - 10 with very little guidance on the scale. All the 10s started, in no order, then all the 9s, and so on. I ranked myself a 4, which was a huge mistake, as there were people WALKING in front of me. Although I passed several people, there were far too many people in the pool to swim efficiently. It was, by far, the worse swim ever.

I would have ranked myself as a 7 or an 8.

This was my first try at leaving my shoes clipped in and trying to pedal up to speed on my shoes and then into them. It didn't go so well for me, as one shoe caught under the pedal and clipped itself out.

Either skip the clipped-in shoes or practice it a lot more.

Since I live at the beach, I can't train on hills, and this course was tough for me. I spent a lot of the race on the small front gear, but at least I never had to get off my bike and walk it!

More time training on hills

Ran past my rack; want to start running without socks.

Find a better landmark to find my spot on the rack.

Good pace for me; it was hard to get water on this course.

walking


poor organization of the event, especially on the swim


I don't think I'll do this race again. It was disorganized overall and the swim setup was very bad.