Tri For Your Cause - Triathlon

Man the water was so cold....take your breath away cold. Face, hands and feet were numb right away. No major problems with the swim, just very cold. I really felt....inefficient, like I was putting in the effort but not getting the anticipated propulsion. I found it hard to get a good pull as I couldn't feel my hands, and my kick was worthless. Didn't ever feel like I settled into any groove...

Aside from the obvious, which is more/better training...I should have swam farther in at the finish. I quit swiming and waded in from about waist-deep water. Just too cold and I needed to get my face out of the water. I know that I don't tolerate cold well, and my performance suffers, so perhaps expecting anything more for this scenario is unrealistic.

Real slow transition, I knew it would be after that swim. I couldn't grab the zipper cord for the wetsuit top until my hands warmed a little, so I was slow getting that off. Slow getting the suit off the legs also. I dryed off, put on a long sleeve jersy and fumbled with the zipper(cold hands). Not a great T1, but I didn't realy care, just wanted to be warmer on the bike.

I really don't know that I would have done anything differently, faster maybe...duh

Pretty pleased with the bike, pushed hard from the start and felt I had a solid effort. Don't think I could have gone much harder, not this early in the season. I passed quite a few of riders and was not passed. Overall, it was a good bike for me at this point in the season.

Nothing. Wish I would have had a better training base, but that's water under the bridge now. In retrospect, I probably should have had a gel on the bike or finshed the 16oz of Cytomax. I think I left myself a little short for the run.

Better (than T1), but not great. Got bike racked fine, shoes went fine, but the jersy zipper got stuck. Grabbed hat, race belt and off on the run. Not bad, but certainly room for improvement.

Wish I hadn't needed to wear a long sleeve jersey...hard to get on, hard to get off.

Not a great run. Really had nothing left in the tank for the run. Not unexpected. Got passed by five, and couldn't respond to any of them. I tried to pick up the pace several times, just didn't have it.

I'm really not too worried. The run results honestly reflect where I'm at with my training. Decent base training, but no real speed work. Also, as my bike fitness continues to improve, my run will get better.

Just walked around, drank some water. Ate a sandwich about 30min after finish.


Training and the cold water. Overall, it's about what I was expecting, no major disappointments. Still mostly working on base training, and not much on speed. The limited amount of bike miles YTD (just over 600) probably hurt the most. While I had a reasonably good bike, it took alot out of me and I didn't have much left for the run. Until I put in a good 4-5 weeek block of 125-150m/wk on the bike (with interval work), my run after will continue to be mediocre.

I noted that just an improvement of 2 minutes overall, would move me up 10 places overall, and into 2nd for age group... crazy. Thats 30 sec on both the swim and run and 1 min in T1..absolutely doable. One of these days I'll put it all together and have the race I'm capable of, hopefully this year sometime.


The race itself was well done. Well organized and the course is great. My disappointment has to do with timing and results problems. Preliminary data was not accurate for post-race age group awards, and complete, final results were not available until Wednesday morning (three days after event). This race would rate a 4, otherwise.