RYKA Iron Girl Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I moved myself towards the front this time so I wouldn't have to climb over people. That worked fine until I started following the crowd after the first buoy. I wound up way further out than I needed to be. There was actually a lifeguard telling us to move closer to shore. I probably swam an extra 100 yards with all that. What a waste. I still managed to finish fairly strong. I don't have the breakdown, but it looks like I was about 19/54 in my AG. Still obviously my best of the three. Who would have thought.

Not follow the crowd. I thought I started off well by being on the outside, but I turned out to be too far outside and I think it took me longer than it should have. Got a little frustrated in the water.

First, transition included a giant concrete hill that we had to run up. Not fun. The transition itself, not too bad. Much better than last time. Didn't try to dry off or anything, just put my stuff on and ran with my bike. Took off, and thats when trouble started.

Maybe run more up the hill. It was tiring, I walked as most people were doing.

And this is where the blown tube came back to bite me in the @ss. For the first 1-2 minutes, I fought with the shoe cage. Very distracting. I couldn't keep pedaling and try to get my foot in at the same time. Finally get it in and not even a half mile into it, I drop my chain. Now there was no hills or anything at this point. I think I was just shifting. So I pulled over and fix it myslef. This is the first time this has happened on this bike, and it only happened once on my mountain bike, so I'm surprised and pleased that I was able to fix it and pretty quickly. I'm sure I lost 5-10 minutes on the bike though. I'd say a good 30 people passed me (including my friend Robin who I was trying to beat). The rest of the bike was good. Shifting was little off, but no serious issues. I actually caught up to a good number of people, even on the hills. I was really glad I got to ride the course prior to the race. I'm really good at going fast and I like it. :)

Not have anyone touch my bike before the race! j/k, it's no one's fault. These things happen to everyone. Just happen to be a very inoportune time. Not much else. Pretty happy with my time. 1 minute from my goal even with the dropped chain.

My one advantage here is that I don't have cycling shoes (yet). So all I have to do is take off my helmet and put on my visor and race belt. And I remembered to run with my race belt this time.

Nothing.

I think I could have done a little better with this. It was an out and back and the out was uphill. Yuck. No recovery time. Not much I would have really changed though.

Need to work on longer bricks. The typical 10 min. afther the bike isn't cutting it anymore. This is what needs to be worked on. There's no reason why I shouldn't be able to do 9 min. miles at this point.

Nothing particular. Waited in line for my results, had some water.


Chain and gearing. That bike should have been at least 8 min, faster. Longer runs after biking. Need to pick up speed. Not much else. Great weather, great supporters.


IMO, for a race that has so many first timers, I'm surprised thay have an 18 mi. bike. It would be quite easy to nix a couple streets and make it 15 or 16. Really great supporters and volunteers. I hear the post race food was good but I didn't stick around for it, I wanted some Cracker Barrel. Overall good set up. I love Lake Lanier, but they have got to do something about that hill up to T1. I'm sure I'll do it again, it was a great experience. And it was really nice to be one of the one's that cheered first timers on. I was happy to be that girl today. I think I'll have to do that more often.