Great Buckeye Challenge - Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Swim was ok, still having trouble making it through the entire course without stopping. Made it to roughly 1/2 way mark this time before gasping for air. Trouble getting my heart rate back in line to finish the swim, just couldn't catch my breath! Timing pad was probably 300m from the water's edge, without that distance my swim time would be closer to the target time.

Pushed past the air issue and try and relax more, 1st part of the swim I was relaxed, 2nd part of the swim I became stress, mostly due to running into other swimmers and not being ablet o maintain a normal rythem.

1st transition start was a long distance from water, had to run roughly 300m up a steep hill to get to the Transition area. Running up this hill took more energy than the entire swim!!
Good transition not a whole lot of issues, Equipment is still at a minimum so not much to do.

Overall bike was pretty good, set plan of taking the 1st 6.5 miles with an easy gear to make it to the top of the turn. Then coming back drop into the big boy gears and push for home. Followed closely to this and worked out well. Max speed shows as 25.2mph, slow speed was 13.5! I need to get the low speed higher.

Probably could have pushed a little harder =, but considering the 18mph+ pace is my fastest for the race I can not complain

good transition other than the person in front of me causing a bit of a traffic jam, At the dismount part the course was narrowed down to barely one rider width. The person in front of me basically decides to come to complete stop get off check his shoes and then stroll to the transition area.

Nothing

Run wasn't bad, ran the entire length without much issues. Coming back really stressed me especially the last section coming up the back side of the levy, this was a lot of effort. Finished the run at a dead sprint for the last 400m.

I think I could of pushed pace a little bit more, really do not believe I came to the breaking point. Best though would of only been by about 20-30s quicker on each mile. Overall pretty good!!

Drank a coke and ate a lot of watermelon. Walked roughly 1/2 mile for cool down.


No limits other than the amount of training so far, Need to put on more endurance into swim to quicken the times and make it to the end!!


Good race, swim slowed me down. Setting my expectations high but just don't have the lung capacity yet to meet them. I will not lower them though.