Tinsel Triathlon - TriathlonOther

the swim was a bit chaotic, the pool was really warm. I probably added 2 minutes with an inept T2, forgot to exchange sunglasses for goggles, had to go back, basically doubled the transition time. I had to make one rookie error and this was it.

Either ride the bike with the goggles around my neck or forgo them completely. Overall speed up T2. This is a reverse sprint with the swim last,so basically you strip everything off but your tri shorts and run for the pool.

I can't clip the shoes on and jump on yet, but I got a pretty good start changing from running to bike shoes and getting going. Should have run with biking gloves on.



Run with biking gloves on to save time.

I rode faster than I actually thought possible. Totally kicked ass on my training times.

Run with the bike gloves on. As far as the actual biking, I did so much better than I expected to I wouldn't change anything.

I forgot to replace sunglasses with goggles, had to to go back, cost a lot of time.

Either ride with the goggles around my neck or forgo them.

Because this was the first segment (reverse triathlon) it was my first taste of actual competition. I was going much faster than I realized, which explains why I was wondering why it hurt so much. I was thinking "god, I should be in better shape," etc., and the truth is I cut 2 minutes off my best 5k time. I was simply caught up in the race and burned one out. Couldn't be happier about that.

Not a thing

walked around, showered off the chlorine (swim was last) and stretched again. Smiled a lot.


I was training with the idea that my first tri would be in March. So I moved up my first by 3 months of training time. Any limits were simply that I wanted to lose more weight and be in better shape by the time I raced, but it worked out okay.


This is a fun, well-organized race. Many people told me that this was a great first time triathlon, and all that was true. I was hoping to finish under 1:30 and I was under that by 15 minutes. If I hadn't douched T2 I might have been much closer to 1:10