Spirit of Racine Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

The swim was brutal. There were waves as high as 3 ft. Lots of distance between them but still hard. Took me forever to get to the first buoy and once I did and made the turn, I was no longer into the current and it went much faster.

Train more in this type of chop/curent.

I forgot my sun glasses so went back to get them. I'm still too slow in the transition even with that turn around. I need to work on getting the suit off and the shoes on.

Put the sunglasses in the helmet.

Probably my best race pace to date. Almost hit the 20mph pace for the race. Stayed in the tuck on the aero bars almost the entire time. Made a big difference.

Keep up the training and possible try to take drinks while still down. Slowed down a bit when taking drinks. Want to start to get my ave speed above 20mph.

T2 still pretty good. Fairly quick on the transition.

Still need ot figure out how to get the shoes loos and off quicker.

I surprised myself with this run. I recognized I was going out a bit too fast so slowed it down a bit. Then I saw "the hills". So I kept the same turnover going up both of them and recovered at the top. It seems to have worked. The pace I finished with is probably the fastest 5k pace I've had this year, including just running races. Very happy with the run. Now I'm starting to think I can actually go faster.

Possibly stretch it out down the hills a bit more. I think I reserved it too much and think I possibly could have broken 26 minutes. But I know for next time.

Grabbed a bottle of water and walked. Alot. Just to cool down.


Swimming ability. This OWS was one of the toughest things I've done. The waves were incredible. I couldn't believe it. I'm so glad I swam in the surf a bit yesterday, but man that was something else.


I will definitely be doing this one again next year if they have a Sprint again, just so I can get to do the swim again and attempt to beat this years time. :)