St. Anthony's Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Good pace, this is about what I predicted (taking into account being a little slower than the pool, since there is no wall to kick off of)I think I definately started too far back and I spent a LOT of time trying to get around slower swimmers, so I'm sure that is part of the slower time. 20 seconds faster/100 than last year!

Start farther up in the wave.

Good transition overall - to make this any faster, I need to get better at running from the swim finish to my bike (I walked most of the way). I actually finished faster than I expected and stopped to think for a second if I was missing anything.

Jog to my bike from the swim exit

This was an awesome bike for me!! I always lose places on the bike, but I gained about 10 places this time! I passed a ton of people, which was certainly a new experience for me! I am very pleased with my performance here (I had planned on a 1:30).

Nothing

I was about to have a panic attack racking my bike - the stupid person next to me racked on the wrong side and left my NO room to rack my bike. Kirk was watching me and said it didn't take as long to figure this out, but it seemed like I was messing with the stupid bikes FOREVER. How hard is it to rerack your bike on the correct side?!?!

Not sure what I could have done differently here

I know I'm not the fastest runner, but I shouldn't be losing 22 places on the run! It started out okay, just under a 10 minute mile (where I wanted it). I was chafing on my left arm, so that bothered me a little, but my pace was just continually falling. I walked a good bit starting after mile 3, but much less than I walked last year. The last 3 miles, I was running until I started to feel queesy and would walk for 30 seconds. I swear it's the "curse of the run" for me - I had such great bricks during training, but it didn't translate to a good run for me here. There is definately improvement, but I still need to improve a LOT here!

Run more? Bodyglide arms in transition?

Walked a little, drank water, wiped down with cool/wet towel. Drank a recoverite and then a beer! :)


Overall learnings: Start farther up in the swim wave, bodyglide before run, run more


I love this race, it's such a fun atmosphere and I get back to work feeling like I had a mini-vacation. It was great having over 20 members of the club at the race, I'm hoping we'll have a big group next year as well. This is a race that is definately staying on my schedule!