Silverlake Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Don't feel like manually counting the people who beat me. ;p

Now keep in mind I rarely ever curse.

So we're waiting in the water, and I'm shivering pretty good(which I've been doing for 15min now). Then a guy next to me goes, you're shivering pretty good there. I reply, I'm F****** freezing my ass off. Giving I've never had a good open water swim, ever. This wasn't a good way to start. I took off I had wanted to grab a good swimmers feet and come in around 6:45 if all went well.

So I started off hard and just quickly felt badly. There was some running into people, bumps and kicks but nothing out of the ordinary. It's only 200m to the turn so I just focus on that, sighting isn't a issue for me I work it into my stroke easly. I get to that I go in for a tight turn around it, and run into somebody so a slight traffic jam at the turn. then we start heading back towards land and it's much more open. I should of really focused on going quick here, but I didn't. Or I did and my first 200 just really sucked. :)

shouldn't of swam before the race, it really made me cold.

A little slow, maybe? I put my shoes on in t1 for sure on these smaller races so some people may of gone faster.

Had a couple slips, not many, but enough that with out of them I would of broke 25:00 on the bike.

Nothing.. just get my 2nd shoe clipped in the first try.

Ok so the bike course is pretty bad, but it's still fun. Except for one spot where they made it a No Pass Zone. I had no intention of following this rule.. but they had a ton of people working that area and I'd rather give up 10-20s behind a slower guy than 2min penalty. For future reference if you are a race Director.. Don't do this, it's horrible. On a short course like this getting stuck behind someone going 3mph slower then I was could very well cost me a few costly seconds. This race is about seconds afterall.

Ok on to the actual effort of the bike. I went into this ride wanting to ride a bit harder than normal, I wanted a 24+ avg and at any other bike course on the same day I would of got it. So the first half is the more techincal part of the course and I start passing people right away. Then one guys gets the idea to pass me. I told him some words of encouragement as he passed me, but in my head I was saying NO WAY PUNK NOT TODAY. Fifteen seconds later I was passing him. I didn't have anymore punks try to pass me after that! (the guy came to me after the race and said good bike leg, you made me push harder than I probably would of)

After that I was just riding hard, of course trying to save enough for the run(and next weekend!) when I came up to the no pass zone and of course I get stuck behind someone. I wasn't too happy about that what so ever.

Push even more.

One of the fastest ones of the day, Ben beat me by 4 seconds but he already had his running shoes(put shoes on in t1).


Rack bike a bit neater, I came back and it was a bit off.

The two guys who beat me are awesome runners their times were 17:10 and 16:40. One beat me overall by 20 seconds, I beat the other by 5 seconds. Like I said this race is all about seconds. 2nd,3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th were all within 40s of each other, then it's a bit of a gap. First was also a good ways up at 49:37.

I probably breathed harder during the first mile then I did on the last one. It took me a bit to get going, but once I did I went good. I wasn't catching too many people becuase I was only in the 2nd wave and by the end of the bike I was pretty far up. I may of passed 6 people and finished.. 4th? Not bad for being in the 2nd wave. :)

I had captex in the back of my mind, I think that made me hold back a little bit. In a perfect world I would of liked to gutted it out completely, but back to back races with the more important one is still coming up.. I think I held a little back, not much though!

Easy 1.5mile jog. Oh and then a 35mile bike ride back home with Roger(who got 3rd and overall master).
It should of been a mere 20-23miles.. but we took his way which apparently isn't a direct route. lol



I'm like a dead fish in the water.


The bike course is the only thing I can complain about for this race.