North Mankato Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I decided to start on the far right, but in the front of the wave. It was a relatively large wave of people, and I didn't want to get into a panic attack at the start. I got off to a good start and slowly angled back towards the first buoy. Got bumped around a little bit by some other swimmers zagging out off course, and had someone doing the breaststroke kick my left hand. Jambed my fingers a little bit. After the first buoy, I was swimming the exact same pace as about 3 other swimmers, and I used them for navigation. They hugged the buoy lines well, and I just went along. I probably should have dropped in behind to draft... I like the 1/4 mile swim, as it was over quickly, and I couldn't lose too much time.

Draft.

Overall this was a much better swim than my last Tri.

Seems like a good transition time, but where the timing pads were, most of the "running" part of transition was tacked on to the swim time.

Might take a little more off of my wetsuit legs

This was my best Tri bike leg to date! Since it was, I'm going to adjust the distance in my race report to match the actual distance covered! There, that feels good. I've never averaged over 21mph before, so I was very happy with this. I felt good up the big hill, and only 1 person passed me there. On the rest of the bike, I was holding my own, and even passing some other riders. Looking back on it now, it doesn't seem like it felt real hard, but I think that is just revisionist history! We'll see if I can do this over a longer distance...

Nothing, maybe even push harder.

Pretty speedy, but had a good rack position

Tough run. It really was just a gutting it out type of run. I was able to catch a few runners, but then just ended up in "no mans land". I need to really work on some speed here, as this is my discipline to compensate for my swim.

I'll be trying to get some more run mileage in, and some intervals

Walk around, jump in the water to cool off. Grabbed some of the post-race food.


Nothing, really.


I really enjoyed the race. I liked the entry fee, especially! A great value compared to some of the other Tris I do. I will say the events were on time, just because they notified us as soon as they knew it would be delayed due to same day registration.