Mighty North Fork - TriathlonSprint

This was my first deep water start and wet suit definitely helped keep me afloat as I bobbed around out there. Was also my first mass wave start, as there were 2 waves, men then women. The first 250 yards was a slugfest! Also since the course was basically a straight line, the leaders were coming right at me..Holy Crap they are on their way back already!! Also, I had to slow because me and another guy were on same exact pace side by side and I was breathing left and he was breathing right..our faces were literally inches from each other!! That was too weird for me, so I tucked in behind him since we were about same pace anyway.

Be more aggressive about finding my water!

Jackass who squeezed in at last second had me all flustered in T1..then suit got stuck on ankles and I had sand/mud all over my feet. Finally ready to go and bike tires are stuck on my sneakers so I kick sneakers to free them up and they go flying about 3 spots over along with race# belt!

Be more of a dick to dick-boy and tell him to find spot at end of rack!

Course was definitely shorter than 8 miles! My bike computer had it closer to 7 and my mph as 18.3. I'm very pleased by 18.3 mph! If I could average 18mph for rest of season I'd be stoked!

Nothing.

Must put Yankz back on shoes and not kick sneakers in anger. 2nd race in a row I left T2 without race#, this time it was only about 10 feet, but I couldn't find it amongst the chaos of my wetsuit and dick-boys crap on top of mine.

Be more organized.

WTF!!! I definitely thought I ran faster than this. Guess not. I should have known when I saw people passing me who didn't even look like they were running, yet they were passing me! I didn't get breathing under control until half way through run. But I did complete the whole run without stopping, which is the first time in a tri event I didn't have to stop. As we came into chute about 50 yards from finish I hear the announcer say oh what a log jam who is going to break away from this large group?? Well, I kicked like it was Free Pizza day in College!! Probably moved up 5 OA spots. Then I thought, if I could have run that hard for the last 50 yards, perhaps I could have been running harder for last 1 mile! I'll get the hang of this whole pacing thing yet!

More brick training. Keep losing weight. Push harder once HR calms down from bike.

Saw college buddy who beat me by about 6 minutes in our first race together (Memorial Day), this time he only beat me by :24 seconds!!


Bricks! Lack of running background and overweight engine.


Great race, although packet pickup and race forced 2 rather long drives deep into Long Island's North Fork. This fact alone may prevent me from doing this race again. A lot of first timers at this race which was very inspiring! I am very pleased with my bike, somewhat pleased with swim and know that I must keep working on run! It's all good though as I am still having a lot of fun doing this! Next up is my first ever Oly distance...oh boy!!