Soak Up The Sun Triathlon - TriathlonMini Sprint

I have been working on swimming freestyle over the winter. I did breaststroke in all of my tri's last year. This was going to be my first time to freestyle. I jumped in and started swimming. I felt pretty good the first 50 yards and then realized I was going way too hard. I did a couple of breaststrokes to get calmed down, and then continued freestyling. I caught up to someone and had to slow down. I had to wait to go around her at the wall. Also at this point the guy behind me decides to swim under me because I guess he thinks I'm the one going slow. Well for the final 50 yards I had to wait on this guy because there wasn't any room to go around him. Overall I was still very pleased with my time. I would never been able to swim that fast last year.

Continue to swim. I'm proud I was able to freestyle most of it.

Ran to the bike put on my HRM strap, shirt, bike shoes, helmet, and sun glasses. Unracked my bike, run up the hill, clipped in and I was off.

Not much.

My heartrate was up pretty high for about the first 2 miles. I was just excited to be on the bike, and there were a few hills to begin with. I told myself to take a few deep breaths and calm down. I got my heart rate down and got into a good rhythm. I was very pleased with my bike split. I'm a lot faster than I was last year.

Push harder on the downhills instead of coasting. I was pleased with my ride.

I have been practicing taking my feet out of my shoes and dismounting. No problems doing that.

Nothing.

I really have been working on getting faster on my swim and bike. I was please to see the improvement in those 2 areas. I haven't really worked running faster, just running the distance. I could tell by all the people that were passing me. I was shooting for 20 minutes, so I wasn't too far off my goal.

I should have pushed harder, the last quarter mile I realized I should have been running harder.

O'well.

Hugged my wife and daughter and told them thanks for being here and supporting me. Drank some water and took it easy.


Run faster. I will continue to work on all three areas, but will start to get faster on the run.


This is the first time I have done this race. I was please with the race. This is a good first timer's race.