E.P."Tom" Sawyer State Park Triathlon XXIV - TriathlonSprint

The swim was like a log jam. By close to the end of the second lap I caught up to several people in front of me. I passed people when I could, including 3 people at once. Overall, the swim was much slower than I wanted. Ended spending a lot time doing breast stroke just to slow myself down to keep from running over people until a pass opportunity revealed itself.

Overestimated my swim completion time on the registration form and got stuck with slower swimmers. Definitley, will try to place myself in the appropriate group or at least pass more aggresively. Lost at least a couple minutes due to this mistake.

Felt good about T1 was pretty good. Didn't place my bike very well in the transition area and had to jog it out of the transition area further than I would have liked.

Place bike in a better position. Use the lap function on my watch to track in the transition times.

Bike portion was exactly what I wanted. I rode fairly hard without over doing it. Felt strong.

Nothing

Good transition. Racked bike, peeled off bike shoes, slipped on running shoes, grabbed my hat and I was off.

Felt pretty good on the run, but was starting to feel a bit tired. Took water both times through water stop, drank some and poured rest over my head and back to keep cool.

Overall, I was happy with my pace, but could have pushed the second half slightly harder.

Walked around until I caught my breathe. Had a physical therapy group stretch me out.


Biggest limiter was the log jam in the swim.


Race in database is listed as E.P."Tom" Sawyer State Park Triathlon XXIV, which is actually last year's race. This one was XXV.