2016 Cal Poly MTS Sprint - TriathlonSprint

Yuck! The start had us standing in 3' of muck, then swimming in jet back mucky water for a hundred yards. The water eventual cleared enough to look like a lake that wouldn't kill us.

There was more contact than usual for the first 1/3, then it was a matter of following caps. Fog made navigation hard, but the lake was too narrow to get lost.

This was a two-cap day, and the temperature was fine.

3rd overall. My shoes fell off the bike after the timing mat but before the mount line, so that took a few seconds.

Next time, rubber bands on the shoes.

This was steeper and harder than I remember from a few years back, but my speed was okay. I stayed in aero all the way up the hill, even in the granny gear.

I forgot to start my watch for the run.

28th overall. I'm usually very fast in T's, but not in this one. I probably gave away :30. I didn't get out of my shoes on the bike, and I didn't deal with my hat and bib while moving, like I should have.

The run was super slow for me. Part of it was the ~240W on the hilly bike, part of it was doing about 2000m of work with fins on Friday in masters. Dumb! What did I learn this week? You have to taper in the pool, too!

Chatting, eating pizza, keeping track of the results.


Too much work in masters.


Here are the results

The Poly tri team did an exceptional job this year. There were way more than enough volunteers, and the tr team people were very nice.