Timex Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Advantage of Full Wetsuit

Dont breath in while spotting markers (cough)
Better Navigation
High heartrate after swim
Dont forget bodyglide on neck
Maybe wear race number/Belt under wetsuit?

Caught finger in timerchip strap (ouch)


Dont forget to take out earplugs
Dont put on cafe pads on shoes, just run.
Run faster to transition.

Steady pace. Bike worked like a charm. Smooth and easy.


Practice hills, lost ground a few times
Work on Gearing on hills. Was all over the cassette.
Have a spare ready next time.

Shoes went on easy

Need a single pull for both straps.
Powder for shoes next time.

So slow after the bike it hurt.
Couldn't pick up the pace to save my life.
HR was high, so was right effort, just slow as heck.
Lost the race here.
Passed so many times, felt like a speed bump.
Good news. Consistent pace throughout. Steady as an ocean liner, and felt like one too :/

Hill training.
Run technique.
Pace training.
Would have easily been 5-10 places higher if my pace was in the 8:00 area like in practice.

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High heartrate after bike maybe? Legs wouldnt move fast enough...


Overall a great event. Well organized. Deep water start was interesting. Was hard to sight the buoys at times because of the bridges. Be advised construction on the bike course made the turn onto Scottsdale road very constricted and *very* tricky to negotiate at higher speeds. Glad I did the prerace course run the weekend before and knew about it. Would have been a nasty suprise. Run is 'hillier' than I expected, very little flat ground. Needed to train running there more.