Lake Mills Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Nothing much to report with this. Only a slight improvement over last year which suprised me cuz I thought I was out of the water a lot sooner. Pretty conservative swim but felt very relaxed relative to other years. The swim focus will come about next year, I promise!

Start swimming more for one. With High Cliff a few weeks away, that wont be a problem, but happy with this relative to my lack of swimming and due to feeling efficient if nothing else. The issue is my expecations in this sport need to change and then I do something about it.

Meh. Better than some t1s I have had but transitions are another thing I really could work on, especially with the sprint distance.

Work on transitions and not get my heel stuck.

My plan was to hammer the bike and melt up the legs and see what happened. I dont know if it was my undisciplined tempo ride on Thursday or just not being where I thought I was bike wise, but I thought I could have shaved another minute off here this year (about a minute and a half improvement from last year) I seemed to neglect drinking a bit and on a roller I stood up to stretch the legs a bit and felt a twinge. Managed to hunker down and finish out the bike relatively solid though.

Keep tempo stuff a week out from races. Otherwise happy taking what the legs gave me today.

Holy balls. Was this my first t2 or something? On dismount, I kicked the water bottle with my tools and all that out of the bottle cage. After about 5 steps or so and thinking fock it, I turned back realizing that it was the thing with the co2 and tubes and pump and all. It was also kind of on the principle that bigger races penalize ya for leaving equipment and I was playing by the rules whether or not they were gonna enforce em. As I bent to put on my shoe, my right calf knotted up briefly and I thought my run was going to be focked. Shaking it off, I quickly bolted to the run out. I see Yams is done with his race as he was in an earlier wave and he and 1sttimetri are screaming 'Helmet!' at me. Yougoddabekiddingme. My 9th tri and I still cant hit one of the most basic elements of transitions? So ran back about 40 yards, ignoring my instinct to throw the helmet in a hissy hit somewhere. What a tool.

Are you kidding me? This disaster was about double previous t2s. I do find in funny though, just a bit frustrating, but gotta say my mental focus on details wasnt quite there today.

Once I finally got out of t2, I felt pretty solid and comfortable with the run, perhaps comfortably uncomfortable. I saw a herd of donks out there and just chugged away, managing some ebb and flow between 5:30-6:10 pace. Morey1 told me I looked like crap last year running to a 18:36 pr and I was shocked with how relatively comfortable this new PR was. The calf caused minor issues and I think the t2 debacle took some of the fire out of me to be honest, but I pushed hard and am happy with this run.

Nada. Maybe gives a nod to some of my tempo stuff lately but I am sure a year of IM training last summer paid some aerobic dividends too.

Stumbled around and pouted a bit then saw Schmize who handed my arse to me by putting in a stellar race. Grabbed some food and water and chatted with fellow Donks but had to be at a baptism and take off quick. Egg burritos like every year (hits the spot) some endurox and another half clif bar on the way to the baptism.


Mental focus was just off today. I think some of this is that I dont really take sprints seriously enough vs longer races and the lack of impending doom from the first IM thang has me a bit more comfy this year. Thats good and bad and it will come with A races later in the summer from a focus standpoint, but didnt expect to lose time in transition like I did. This is the race I deserved the more I think about it. I have trained hard and saw improvements in the sports, but the sense of urgency/focus wasnt there and I made some rookie mistakes. Whatcanyado?


Good show every year and threw in a tech shirt. Nice way to kick off the season.