Escape from Ft Desoto - TriathlonSprint

The course had to be short because calculating time I would have had to do 1:35/100 for 1/2 mile, which is way too fast.
I was very hyper for some reason, perhaps it was because it was the first triathlon since last year and only 2nd triathlon in 2 years. I had on my sleeveless wetsuit, which is a bit too tight in the chest and neck...didn't warm up...big mistake. I stood up front to start. When gun went off everyone ran in much faster than I did so by the time I started swimming I was in the middle of it all. I hyper ventilated! I could not breath and had to stop..a little panicky for the first couple of 100 yards thinking I should just take off the wetsuit that was restricting my breathing badly. I finally, thank goodness, got my breath after slowing down and got used to the tight wetsuit..came in 2nd by 10 seconds..could have easily come in first with a more intelligent start

warm up
consider not wearing a wetsuit when water warm
had on tight bra...may have contributed to tight wetsuit..try something else underneath

had to run over 1/4 mile on sand, then over rough parking lot..at which point, I walked all the way to my bike because feet hurt slow taking off wetsuit, slightly dizzy and off balance so slow putting on bike shoes

practice! Also, should have put flip flops out or have Mike hand them to me. I don't know how others ran over that parking lot. I lost over 2 min over leader

race advertised 10 miles, but PT read 9.5 miles and avg of 17 mph
I was pretty happy really with my bike..I think I've improved..avg watts 100, normalized 106 on PT I remember thinking I was at zone 3 and that is harder than usual for me. I concentrated on cadence and perhaps could have been better on gears, but overall good.

maybe go harder? have to train more intervals to do so..was a bit afraid to go all out

average...lost some time here too...

need to practice, rusty getting into shoes with tri laces

my calculations..about 11:22 pace race advertised as 4, but no way..
very happy and surprised my knee didn't hurt so that's all that counts here.
1st- 10:25 2nd-10:45 3rd-11:45 something like that on watch

nothing..good run for where I'm at ... no speed work at this point and shuffling along at 12:38 pace most of the time

Fun race and venue, great post race food, lots of fun on flat, windy course. Challenge run on sand; very long transition from the water. Would do it again.