Green Bay Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

The swim time is decieving. In fact, its pretty much wrong. The swim is not 400m, nor do you even swim the whole thing. 2/3 of it is only thigh deep water. When the gun shot off, I ran in, found a spot and started doing some dolphining to get some speed. Almost everyone was walking through the water, so I stopped that and joined the crowd. Nobody was breaking away and the people that were swimming were gettting passed by people walk/running in the water. Once the deeper water came on, everyone started swimming. We rounded the turn-around and I found some feet to draft off for a while. I quickly realized that the water looked really shallow really fast. Looked up...Im about 15 ft from shore to my left. Started dolphining again to get some speed. Again, everyone was walk/running this swim. I got really pissed off and started running/walking in the water. Once I reached the finished I got on the beach and made the dash to T1.

Hard to say on this one.. don't draft off someone whoe isn't going the right direction? swim more and harder? dolphin faster? learn how to run in the water better?

No wetsuit to rip off so it was strap on bike shoes, put on glasses, clip helmet and GO GO GO! No need for the rubberband trick since I was about 10 feet from the Bike Out and there is a patch of grass that dips, then goes to pavement. It was easier and faster strapping on shoes in T1.

Nothing.

I quickly got up to speed and passed a few people. After a few miles there was a draft marshall on a motorbike that was hanging around by us. I was wondering why he was here and not up by the lead pack. A little after that, on a straight road I looked up and I could see the lead pace car about 1/2 mi up! I counted some people and I was in 7th or 8th place! After knowing that I kicked it down a little harder and rode a little more aggressive. There was 2-3 other people that I was going back and forth with. They'd pass me, I'd pass them, eventually after about 10 mi we all set into a kinda of line and stayed there. Through the whole ride we had the draft marshall right on us. Its kinda funny when racing on the bike for me. I'll see these guys hammering away or pass by me. I'll check out their legs and usually, biker's hard tree trunk legs and can't run worth crap. Those are the guys that even though they might have passed me on the bike I know I'll catch on the run. As we were coming into T2, I passed one last guy, unstrapped my shoes and ran into T2 in 9th place.

Nothing.

Came into T2 fast. My spot was about 10 ft from the Bike In/Out so it was a fast slowdown and racking of the bike. So fast that I fumbled with my bike, had it fall off the rack, then fumbled with it again to get it racked. Helmet off, socks on, shoes on, number belt in hand and I was off. I later realized that my bike shoe popped off the clip when I was dismounting and some nice spectator put my shoe back in my area. Came into T2 in 9th place, left T2 in 6th.

Not fumble with my bike racking it. That probably cost me 3-4 seconds.

Coming out of T2 I didn't realize what place I was in, only that I wanted to run really fast and catch some of the guys ahead. After about 1/4 mi, my legs were back and I was ready to rock, though I felt a little heavy footed from Saturday's 10k race. Footpod didn't pick up, but I had HR data to gauge my effort off. While still in the pack I passed one guy and just before the mile 1 marker I passed another. At the turn-around I started to count guys coming back. Got to the turn-around and I was in 4th place! I was trying to catch the 3rd place guy, but it seemed like he and I were running the exact same pace. The whole way back I was pushing it, but never made any ground on him. After the last turn into the park and about 1/2 mi to go I started to give my final kick and lay down what I had. My legs were absolutely SCREAMING and me to stop but I kept headstrong and kept on pushing it. Sprinted down the chute and finished in 4th OA. Later after looking at the splits, me and the 3rd place guy's 5k time was only :02 apart.

Maybe not run a 10k the day before. Other than that, nothing.

Crossed the finish line and got some water. Found my mom and Amy and went over by them. Drank some Endurox and waited for Jason to come in. While I was waiting I stretched a little and jogged for maybe a minute.


Overall I don't think anything played a major role in limiting me. The legs were worked from the day before, I don't think it held me back at all. I threw down my fastest bike split ever, as well as my fastest tri 5k time.


Midwest Sports Event's races are a little iffy at times. This one wasn't that bad and ran pretty well. They also had pancakes, some very good bread, yogurt, pudding and some fruit for the post-race food. Pancakes! Those tasted so good after that race!

A very good race for me and I'm very happy with my splits and results. I was able to shave off 5:57 from my time last year. I feel a little dirty about that short swim, but my times from this year and last were pretty close. So, all the improvements I made was on the transitions (much faster this year), bike and run.