Max Performance Triathlon Series Race #4 - TriathlonSprint

Swim felt very good. I was very surprised at my swim time. I felt as though I swam comfortably hard and was surprised at my time when I got out of the pool!

The guy who won the race knocked off a 4:30 swim... this and T1 is where I lost the race.

I probably could have gone a little harder in the pool... but if I had, I may not have had it at the end of the race.

T1 went a little slower than normal because I knew I had to wear socks for my race running shoes. Compared to the guy who won, I took 20 extra seconds to put on socks.

Maybe put Body Glide on my feet before the swim and just sucked it up and been resigned to the fact I was going to get a blister. But considering I have a HIM the next weekend, I wasn't willing to take that risk.

1st overall on the bike!!!! Whoo Hoo! I felt very strong on the bike and everyone kept coming up to me and saying how I just dropped the field. Gotta be the new Zipps! :)

Have tested the gearing again before the race. The gearing was off so I could either be really low or really high in gear.

Overall a bad transition. I should have been out in < 20 seconds.

I needed to ride all the way to the dismount area. I jumped off the bike too soon. I also racked my bike on the wrong rack then had to go back and put it on the correct rack.

I felt pretty bad throughout the run! When i saw my splits, I nearly fell off my chair! I PR'd my 5K time!!!! I knew I was being chased down the whole time and thought for sure he would catch me. I ended up finishing first by over a minute... but unfortunately, I needed to win by over 2:10 to win the race. Just not enough.

Can't really have done much of anything better. Maybe run a little harder the 2nd half, but I pretty much gave it all I had.

Stretched my legs a bit and sat down to get my HR back down.


I had my best day and still got beat. Simply put, I was beaten by a better, faster guy that day. Considering the fact that the winner and I were the only two people under 1 hour out of 100 people, it was a pretty competitive race.... and he was just simply better than I was.


Headfirst Performance put on a great race! They are always a LOT of fun, it's good to see all the newbies out there for the first time. Lots of things to snack on after the race too. Good day overall and congrats to Lewis Jackson who won the race. You're a heck of a triathlete!