Naperville Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Abysmal swim. Folks were grabbing, pulling and just not being nice. In addition there were tons of folks in the way and could never get a rhythm going. Grabbed the lane line a ton of times. No excuse to perform so poorly with how much time I have spent in the pool.

Guess I need to HTFU and do some intensity work in the pool.

Good solid effort

Solid bike ride. Effort was just right and I spent the majority of the time from 95-100rpm. Felt like I hit this pretty well.

Race wise, nothing. Training wise, up the intensity.

Seemed OK, but the time was very poor.

Practice?

Felt tired / flat on the run. Legs were tight, but not crampy. Just kept a slow, steady pace. Did accelerate with about 600 yards to go and could tell there was lots of juice there. But, dialed it back after 20 seconds / don't like the whole pain thing

Intervals in training. Good job in the race listening to my body

Nada


Pretty frustrating to be 3 minutes slower after a year of training. Although, I "cruised" today versus pushing last week. Again, my cardio fitness is showing up great and my speed sucks. Need to make peace with this issue -- either turn up the intensity in training or accept my peformance level.

The post race this year was very poor compared to previous years. Drinks were hot, minimal food choices, not enough trash cans. Really looked like they had dialed back on what they spent.

Volunteers were again incredible / awesome. Overall organization was very solid.