Historic McKinney Kiwanis Sprint Triathlon - Triathlon

This was a pretty good swim for me. Definitely a huge improvement over last year.

I need to learn how to flip turn, but other than that I did as well as I probably could have expected and still came out of the water feeling o.k.

I still need to work on getting on the bike and up to speed better. I am always very wobbly with this.

Need to work on jumping onto the bike at speed and either getting clipped in or pre-clipping my shoes and strapping into them while riding.

Was on a new bike. Cervelo P3 SL. First race on this after only a few short rides prior to the race. The bike was awesome and I definitely turned in my best ever bike performance. I did pay for it on the run though as my time there was horrible.

I should have pushed less on the hills. I was worried about losing speed so my cadence was too low and I was mashing too big a gear I think. My quads were burning a little, which is something I have never felt before in a sprint. I think it had something to do with pushing too hard on the hills and the different geometry of the bike. Either way, it hurt my run time.

I thought this transition went well, but I was dead last in my age group so apparently not.

Need to get out of the shoes while still clipped in. I unclipped and ran in my bike shoes. Then had to take them off and put on running shoes. Had I made this change I would have at least been somewhere up in the pack with this transition.

The first half mile I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to finish the race without walking. The legs felt like toast. That quickly went away at the half mile point and I knew I would make it, but was going very slow and definitely felt like I better not push it too much harder. By the end, I felt like I may have actually pulled back too much and might have been able to dial it up a little more in the last mile. Probably could have gone 30-45 seconds faster, but would have been hurting more for it.

Save the legs a little more on the bike. Push a little harder in the last 1/3 of the race.

Walked around and got the kids ready for Gracie's race. I felt good.


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This was a good race and is indicative of Play-Tri races. They do a good job. I would have rated higher, but the pool for this race is really too small. You have swimmers going up and back in the same lane with virtually no room for passing. The transition area was nice and roomy though. Post race food was just o.k. This had two different divisions of kids tris after the adults. My daughter was in the first division. All of the transitions were in the same area so we had to wait a long time (approximately 45 minutes) to get in and get her gear after her race as the transition was closed due to the last division running. Think it would have been better to have the transitions segregated to avoid this. We had a family gathering to go to after this and it caused us to be late. Despite the above, I would do this race again.