Luck of the Irish Triathlon - Triathlon

Bad swim. Got fatigued and continue to feel out of sync with trying new methods learned (or not) in Pool School. When I roll to breathe I feel like everything kind of falls apart and I start to sink. Feels like I'm fighting the water so I get winded easily. Not going anaerobic or gasping for breath, but just getting too fatigued too easily. Very frustrating. Doing eight minutes or so for this distance in workouts, so this was discouraging, particularly since my whole season plan is predicated on how my swimming comes along. For some reason, the timing results didn't pick up my swim time, so I can't rate that with the overall crowd.

No option but to keep working this new method.

Very slow here, but I didn't plan for a brilliant T1 due to cold. Pulling gloves over wet hands and then a bike jacket over a wet torso do not equate to a fast transition. Those two items alone probably cost 45 seconds, maybe a minute.

Get a little smoother. I think this will improve as weather does and attire and such becomes more normal.

Solid bike. Felt good. Basically pushed to the point just before stinging pain from excess effort kicked in. I did push harder on the second backside, just for the heck of it. I was really pumped over my timing because I knew it would allow me to beat my 1:20 expectation. But - and here's the secret - my Garmin recorded the course at 8.25 miles. Courses measured short always deliver great results!

Nothing at all, quite pleased with this leg.

Another slow transition. Always gonna be that way when you sit down to pull on socks and have to tie your shoes. I moved reasonably well enough, but those extraneous steps will cannibalize transition time.

Eventually will go sockless in the sprint races this year, I hope. Get some bungee laces into the Hokas.

I didn't know how my run was going to go since I've been doing longer runs mixed with shorter runs, with an eye toward getting used to longer distances. Knew I could cover the distance easily enough but didn't know what kind of pace I could manage. This was a little better than expected, but not as good as I'd hoped for. Maybe now that I'm in the 60+ age group the days of eclipsing 10 minute miles are behind me. Covered the first in under 10 but obviously slowed down after that. Managed fairly well overall, though, and I was blown at the end.

No radical changes here. I'll eventually start doing some race pace intervals and such, but no guarantee that'll make much difference.

Had a water, wandered around with TSW, then went into transition to pack up.


First tri of season, so no official training plan prior to. Cold weather made for slow transitions.


Well done race by Playtri crew. Swim leg handled pretty slowly; I didn't get in until over an hour after the start. The group at Dallas Athletes seems to handle this a little better. But organization was solid, plenty of volunteers and safety personnel out on the course, good management of transition area. Just a so-so course, though, and not quite long enough for a good test, even for hte first tri of the year. Still, overall well done.