Reston Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I signed up for a fast swim time and somehow I was pushed all the way back to start behind many slow swimmers. Needless to say I wasnt to happy about it and took it out on the slow swimmers in my way. I ended up dunking a few and literally swimming over the top of another couple people. I dont even feel bad about it. Do you blame me? Maybe next year I'll do the same thing because I really enjoyed doing that. :)

Figure out how to get my arse into the one of the 1st groups in this event. That way i wont have to dunk people or swim over them.That slowed me down. As far as the swim is concerned, it felt really good.I hit all the turns.The stroke was in good form,breathing was ok. I think I will keep working on Lung capacities to get myself to breath on both sides instead of one. That should get me a little faster.

Was a little slow in the transition. This needs to improve

Try putting shoes on w/out socks. Be faster. Run to my transition area.

As per the person who gave me advice, I craked the down hills concentrating on speed at the top gear, then shifted down to rest on the up hills keeping my cadance up. I have to say that was very good advice as it seemed to go well. The last hill was a killer and that slowed me down tremendously. I probably was up to 30miles an hour down hill. I passed quite a few people.

Well, this is my weakest event. I need longer rides and plan on getting quite a few in before the next event I enter. I am riding a bike that is very heavy and realy isnt meant for racing. I need to find an affordable bike that is much lighter and that will help as well. Again I think more riding will help. However I really improved in this event.

Quick transition

Nothing

I stayed with this woman the whole run to get a good pace. I was beat by the time I started the run. I think I murdered myself on the bike and i also feel i hit my taper a week ago. NOT HAPPY WITH THIS.

Well lets see, my taper was bad for this. I went on vacation a week prior to the event and what i should have done was have at least one very long run to break myself down so the following week I would run a couple short runs. This would have made me alot fresher for the run.Instead its like Ive been tapering for 2 weeks. Obviously this didnt work. I definatly could have been faster on this and I am disappointed.

water,orange, bagel.


My taper was off as decribed above.


I think they need to fix the computer that keeps track of the entry times for the swim. I wasnt the only one who was put in a slower group. I am angry because I am faster then the time I got. They need to fix that.