Blue Lake Sprint Triathlon - Triathlon

had some tough moments until halfway between first 2 buoys, but got into a good ryhtmn then and started to focus on technique
felt excellent with sighting

first time in an open water race - more technique focus early, maybe push the pace a bit more?

hard time getting suit off over watch and timing chip - stumbled around like a drunk trying to get off heels

practice getting suit off over watch and off feet lots more practice here

felt really good getting on bike and going, held good aero position, good pushing downhill, am bummed on bike split - this is almost 2 mph off my Olympic PR but first time doing a Tri

play with gearing and cadence a bit more to try and get a little more effort out - bike leg felt great though

Went into the wrong corral, maybe twice and got totally messed up in finding the bike rack

I think in the Du's was easier to find bike rack, practiced T1 looking for bike but will work on practicing T2 as well

GREAT run - felt really solid and not totally shot during the last mile, felt this was by far my best multi-sport run on the pace - was chasing another guy the whole way and he ran out of gas in the last .1 miles and I passed him and another guy in age group - had that kick in the end to finish strong

Pick up the cadence a tiny bit more
not sure if I had better pacing on the bike which set this run up to be better - definately a different feel with this being the first run instead of the second

some stretches - muscle milk and water/gatorade
did a 1 mile cool down run about 20 minutes later


some transition issues - wetsuit removal and bike racking
some swimming issues but hey it was the first time!


In some ways this is hard to compare times with Duathlons as I can tell it feels different coming off a swim than a first run - made both the bike and run feel different - not easier per se, just different.
No looking back - will keep on doing Tri's from now on!