Azalea Festival Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Felt good, I let one guy pass, I even waited on him at the wall because I was beating myself up to stay ahead. I'm not good at turning under the lane markers, I reach the wall then duck under, and turn around to push off. I improved that on my last turn swimming into the wall and pushing off under the lane marker. I felt silly at the end, I knew where the ladder was, but I felt the need to swim to the end of the lane and touch the wall before coming back to the ladder.

Turn better and go straight for the ladder.

This went pretty well, the barefoot run is what takes me so long.

I could be a little quicker, but no real mistakes here.

Forgot the bike computer again! Really windy, 40 mph gusts! Lot of speed bumps too, and not just on campus. I felt strong most of the time, didn't use the aero bars as much as I hoped, but those gusts were scary. I did half aero a fair amount leaning on one elbow. I passed more than passed me! That's a first for me!

I'll be more comfortable in aero at my next race.

My back wheel came off the ground when I dismounted (that's a good thing I think), then I dropped my new bike! It got hung up on the cones and it slipped out of my hand. After the race I checked and the damage is minor. I tore the seat and the bar tape and added some scrapes to the pedal.

I was almost "that guy," but I remembered to take off my helmet. I stopped before the timing mat with the volunteer staring at me wondering why I stopped. I was checking to see if I did forget anything.

Make sure I swing wide of the cones and hold onto the bike! Be confident, get what I need and take off.

I pushed hard right from the start. Then I pushed even harder on the second half. On the way out I think I drank too much and it didn't settle well. I took a little water at the turn around and skipped the rest. On the way back I think I accelerated too much, too soon. My HR was up around 175 and I was close to walking. Instead I backed off just a bit and was able to accelerate again as I approached the finish. I can only think of one person who passed me and he was from the open division, I guess running the loop again. I passed a fair number of people. Defintely a negative split, but I forgot to stop the watch at the end. The finish was in mud, really bad mud.

Nothing, maybe less water on the way out, but this was a great 5k for me!

Nothing, the family was grumpy right when I got to them. My son had wasn't interested in the finish and was trying to give mommy the sign they secretly made for me and she missed the picture. Its the thought that counts, the sign was very nice and they had yellow pom poms.


Wind! Training. Practice - on the tri bike and transitions.


It's a great race, big, but well organized. The flexibility for later starters to come out later is great.