Sooke International Half Iron and Sprint - TriathlonSprint

Went out and just wanted to stay nice and steady, my time was actually pretty slow for me, so I probably didn't push hard enough. Navigation was a bit off as I did not seed myself very well and I had to pass quite a few slow swimmers by taking quite a wide line. Oh well, no complaints.

Seed myself more towards the front and push harder.

Grabbed my bike stuff and off I went, pretty quick, no major dramas.

Nothing.

Biking has become my weakness so I just wanted to push hard here and see what happened. I had not pre-rode or drove the course, so I was surprised in some parts but for the most part it went well, felt very strong and only got passed by one person, halfway through the course we turned a corner and bam, right there a massive hill to climb which was rough as I had it in my biggest gear so I had to do some climbing in tough gears not to drop the chain. No biggie, legs burned a bit, but I wasn't too worried about it. From that point it was easy trekking and I coasted into transition.

Pre-ride or drive the course, I think the hill cost me some time and enrgy grinding up it.

Pretty easy transition, still have not bought elastic laces so that would help but other than that no real issues.

Buy elastic laces.

Took off out of transition with the goal of pushing pretty hard, first few km's were pretty good, was holding a strong pace and felt fast, hit the turnaround in 10:15, felt great, flew back up the road and started to feel a little sapped with the pace after 3.5 km's so I slowed down just a bit, didn't quite have enough to catch the guy in front of me at the end, I could see him up the road, but ran out of room.

Not sure if I would do anything differently, I pushed like I wanted to so I was happy with that.

Walked around for a bit, stretched and changed into warm clothing.


I didn't use my tri bike as the weather was pretty crap and I didn't want to mess it up so I used my road bike with clip ons. Probably would have had a faster ride on my tri bike, but I wasn't really worried about how I did in this race I just wanted to use it as a good training day.


Good race, I haven't done a sprint in a while it was kind of nice to be finished so quickly. Looking forward to the Vancouver Half Iron which is put on by the same group.