United Way of Huntington County Sprint Triathlon - Triathlon

Felt uncomfortable the whole race because my right eye goggle started to leak immediately, so I had to stop a couple times at the turn to let water out of it. Never resealed, so was a nuisance.

Do a practice lap with Google on to make sure it sealed well. I went below water, but leak didn't show up until I started swimming. So a warm up lap might have been better.

Struggled to get helmet on with glasses. Glasses kept falling out. Cost me about 10-20 seconds of fiddling.

Put on helmet first, then slide glasses in

Not my best ride this year. Didn't realize I was in 39 gear until about 2-3 miles into ride. Couldn't understand why speed wasn't where it should be until I looked down and saw the problem. Missed opportunity to be faster in that stretch with some down wind. Rest of race was side wind and head wind, stiff but not terrible. My legs were also a bit tired still from Wednesday TT, so I had a hard time getting watts where I wanted them. Only 228 on watts. Rpm was at 84. Bike was shorter than advertised distance of 13 miles. Garmin had it at 12.32.

Double check bike gears when setting up in transition

Uneventful transition

Nothing

Good run for me. Pushed hard and steady. Course was longer than 5k. Had 3.23 on Garmin

Nothing

Grabbed water and walked around for 5-10 minutes. Knew I had a good race because felt like I wanted to get sick. After stomach settled down, did some light stretching.


Not much. Goggles on swim, sun glasses in T1, and doing TT on Wednesday affected legs for bike. Bike gear set up in 39 ring was a miss too.


Nice race. Nice course. Pool is great with 8 lanes and wave swim in same lane vs snake swim is best way to do that. Bike course was great, but shorter than advertised by more than 1/2 a mile. Run, however, was longer than advertised and was challenging with some hills. Medals for all participants and winners. This race could draw more participants if it was USAT sanctioned.