Smith Point Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

This was the worse swim I have had in my Tri career for such a short swim!!! The week prior I swam an oly in 28:xx minutes, so though I am not super fast a 13:50 swim is horrendous...I was expecting a 9-10 minute time. I typically will do a pool time trial without pushing myself in that time. SO needless to say I was not happy with my time.

After the race a friend watching his dad said there was a lot of current because he could see the lifeguards yelling at the drifting swimmer to get back on line plus my other friend who did the race is a sailor and looked at his sea charts and said we were racing as the current was going out to sea(against us) at a lower tide therefore we were getting slowed down.

Also There was a lot of contact in this swim. As I approached the first turn buoy to head west it was just many people hitting each other. Some of it was due to the fact that there were a lot of swimmers nearly stopped floating on their back or breast stroking which I dont have a problem with but I felt like I was in a log jam most of the race....I began to catch some of the wave in front of me which afterwards is amazing I caught anyone with a 13 min swim.....mutiple times I had to stop because I had no way to get around anyone unless I veered left or right...I found allthis readjusting took a lot out of me and my HR was skyrocketing....when I was on the bike I said to myself this 500m swim was harder than my 1.2 miler in a May HIM.

Need to seed myself a little more agressively in these sprints and have more confidence I can get out near the front just behind the fast swimmers . Also need to work on maneuvering around people and staying composed in swim traffic and just keep moving

My heartrate was a little higher than I liked for just finishing a short swim but I felt I got in and out ok

This was a great split for me, I pushed this hard with a higher gear, if we did not have a headwind I probably would have been faster. So I was pleased.

Generally since there were a lot of people not understanding that they need to stay to the right so that was a little frustrating at times.

This was a slightly slower than average run for me....I should have been about 22+/-, so maybe if I backed a little off the bike I would have been better but in a sprint I was just going for it...it got hot on the run and probably should have drank a little more on the bike. I seem to lose a little speed when the humidity is high like it was and I do not hydrate enough....I figured since I was only going to be on the course a little over an hour I would be OK

Probably racing the oly last week and maybe not being really fresh for this one limited me a bit, and underhydrating. The swim was just to choatic for a typical sprint, if this was a oly or HIM swim I probably would have had to get real wide to avoid the choas, but that would not have helped with the current.


eventpower li puts on a great race...I have done several of there races and feel they are very organized and have there act together...I would definately do this race again and others in there schedule