Jamba Juice Triathlon on Mission Bay - TriathlonSprint

I started off wayyyyy to fast to get away from the flailing feet and arms so my first 200 was very fast but the rest of the swim wasn't what I practiced. Overall my time was okay though.

Swim at my own pace for the entire swim.

T1 would have been great if my bike didn't get stuck on the rack. To get it off I had to lower my seat. As I was pulling my bike out my chain hit the bike next to me's peddle which knocked my chain off. So what started as a good trans. turned into a bad one.

Not get my bike stuck on the rack.

I didn't push myself hard enough.

Mark my seat so I know what height it is set at. I had to ride the race with my seat too high.

Push myself more.

The trans. went very well except I forgot my racebelt so I had to run back for it which cost me about 30 seconds.

Next time I'll put my racebelt on in T1 and just turn it around for T2.

I paced myself pretty good and pushed just enough. Overall I'm fairly pleased with my run. I was shooting for about an 8.30 mile and missed it by about 15 sec. per mile.

I'd like my run to be under 8 min/mile and that will just take a little more time.

Walked about 400 yrds to cool down.


This was my first race so there was lots of learning going on here. My 5 year old mountain bike isn't doing my bike times any favors but I should have pushed harder.


I don't have any other tri's to compare it too but it seemed huge! Lot's of volunteers though and well marked. Competitors were polite but not very friendly. I had a blast over-all and spent the ride home thinking about how to do the next one faster.