Pocomoke Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Ugh. I had done a few OWS's to prep, but I just couldn't get my breathing right. I did a lot of backstroke to help my breathing.

More practice, work on breathing technique.

Not bad for my first transition ever. Only thing that slowed me down was the chin straps for my helmet somehow got screwed up.

Not much, other than get a helmet with better straps.

I felt really good on the bike, which explains why my average speed ended up so low. I had a mountain bike with road slicks added on.

Push harder, and if I'm going to keep doing these get a road bike.

Pretty easy transition since I did not change shoes. Just had to get my helmet off and hat on.

Nothing.

It was hot out there! It just felt like I had nothing left, and did a lot of walking. The only advantage to this was I had enough left in the tank to run at a decent clip coming in to the finish. I heard a lot about problems at the water station at the turn around, but it wasn't too bad by the time I got there.

Generally build up my running stamina. I had only done a couple of 5K's before this, so doing one (plus .4 mi.) after the other 2 events wore me down.

Hugged my wife, had some Gatorade, cracked open a beer.


My weight, and my relative newness to the whole thing.


My goals were to finish, and hopefully not finish last. I would have loved to have finished in less than 2 hours, but I'll take my time considering that prior to February I had never run more than a mile at once. Fun race, and it felt great to finish.