Hammonton Recreation Department Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I'm slow. Not much else to say about that, except last year this was my first tri ever and it took me 13:04.

The weeds were incredibly thick. After rounding the turn I swam into a mat of them and it freaked me out a little. I stopped to get them off. This lake is so small there was quite a lot of thumping. That part I'm now comfortable with, but I still don't like dirty lakes!

I'd have started swimming as a kid! The weeds messed me up a little mentally, but I doubt it had that great an impact on my time. So given where my ability is right now, this was a decent swim.

My wetsuit zipper got stuck! Our club trisuits were misprinted and have the zipper on the back, so they added a string to help get them on and off. And it caught in the wetsuit zipper and I couldn't get it unstuck.

Luckily someone was able to help me and I didn't get penalized. Otherwise I would have had to DNF, that sucker was seriously stuck!

Take the string off and let someone zip me up until the replacement suits arrive. The rest of transition went very well, and this is something I've been working on. You just can't account for everything, so I rate this as average.

After the wetsuit debacle it felt great to be on the bike. I had a new fitter adjust the bike last week and this was the first race since then. Seems like he did a good job, it all felt good.

Nothing, happy with the bile leg.

Been working on transitions so it was better than last time.

Remember the Garmin.

I really felt the humidity and heat coming out of T2 and it took me a while to settle into a decent pace. I wasn't the only one, the guy in front of me grabbed two cups of water from a volunteer and poured them on his head. I did the same and it helped.

Back half of the run was fine and I passed one guy in my AG near the end, which is all that really matters!

I need to run more in the heat to get acclimated.

Walked around a bit more, drank some water. Was not hungry at all.


Swim skills, weeds, zippers, and heat.

Otherwise I am pretty happy. This was my 5th triathlon and the second time I did this one. Last year it took me 1:23, this year 1:10. Next year??


I think they had a tough time with getting volunteers because of the holiday weekend. But this remains one of the friendliest races around, and I had a great time. Smaller races are fun.