Lake Pflugerville Triathlon - Triathlon

I decided to go at a very comfortable pace for the first 200 meters, evaluate and then step up the pace based on how I felt. For the first 100 meters, I wasn't going real fast so I had alot of traffic to deal with. After 150, I seemed to have clean water and could see 10-12 people in front of me from my wave. After rounding the turnaround buoy, I quickened the pace and passed a few more people in my wave and started passing people in the previous wave. At about 50 meters to go, there was a big log jam of about 10 people that would be exiting together so caught on to the back of that pack and came in with them. I'm not real happy with the time considering open water navigation is usually a problem but I did real well this race and didn't add too much unnecessary yardage. I did have someone t-bone me on the way back to the beach but that was funny. I stopped and let this guy swim the wrong direction. I could have pressed harder but I really started to feel fatigued. May have been from being a little sick. I don't know.

Should have trusted my ability to maintain a quicker pace and picked it up from the get go. I really should have been in around 9 minutes.

The fastest times in my age group were around 1:21. I ran from the beach to transition and thought I did everything fast. I certainly didn't feel like I was on a penalty kill in T1. I'm not exactly sure why I would be 30 seconds off some of the other guys.

I really don't know.

I rode the whole way with the guy who finished third in my age group. Really good guy and we were able to motivate each other and keep the pace up. He thanked me after the race for keeping him going. Great thing about this sport and I was happy for him. Best ride I have had in a race and 21mph was a PR. I downed a bottle of Skratch Labs pineapple and two honey stingers. It was hard to take the hands off the bars when the sections were rough so you had to be careful. Course was quick and very well marked. Some rolling hills but nothing hard by any means. I felt pretty good on the bike actually.

Nothing much. It went well.

There was only one T2 time in my age group faster than me so this went well. Nothing much to complain about with my time. I was very efficient for this race.

Nothing.

Once I started running, I just didn't feel right. The guy that finished third passed me about .75 miles into the run. I hung with him until the 2 mile mark and then just couldn't find an extra gear. I should have been easily able to hold 7:30 miles on that course but I just didn't have it. I'm not sure if feeling a little sick started to catch up with me or not. I wasn't too disappointed. 5th is good and I'll take it but finishing 30 seconds out of third was close enough to make you wonder. Nice venue and the people are great there. I live in Dallas so this isn't something I would do every year because of the distance. I'm doing the Texas Tri Series so I'm doing all of their races this season. It's fun getting to know everyone and the competition is good. Good times in Pflugerville.

I'm not sure. I should have been faster but there are good days and bad. Move on to the next one.

Had a popsickle, some cold water and they gave us cold towels which felt great on my head. Checked the results to see where I finished. They are serious about not letting anyone into transition until the last biker comes through so there was a big line waiting to get into transition. Talked to several of the guys in my age group, got my bike and headed to the Oasis for Fathers Day lunch before driving back to Dallas.


Probably not feeling 100%. My training has been good and I am improving every race.


This is my second Jack and Adams race as a part of the Tri Series. They do a good job organizing the event.