South Carroll Tri-to-Win Sprint Tri - TriathlonSprint

The pool gates were finally opened and people started to walk in.
Because of my swimming background, I jumped into the 2nd pool and did a
quick 2 lap warm up. I was able to calm down the nerves as it got
closer to my start time. Even though the swim was uneventful, I still
was not happy with my time. I know that I can go faster.

I got out of the water feeling good and not realizing the fight that was
about to happen. I get to the transition area thinking this should go
quick. Socks on (check). Cycling shoes on (check). Heart rate strap
on (check). Shirt on (check?????) Not so fast my friends. In the
background, you could hear the bell go off for the beginning of this one
round TKO fight. The announcer grabs the mic and starts with "Ladies
and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. To my right I have
an idiot that did not dry himself off. To my left I have a cycling
jersey that has taken offense to that. Lets get ready to
ruuuuuuuuumble!!!!!!! I grab the jersey and put first arm through no
prob. As I start to put my second arm through, I decide to pull the
jersey over my head at the same time. Before I know it, the jersey has
me in a rear naked choke hold with me tapping out. Game set match goes
to the jersey. I def wasted a good minute and half wrestling with that
stupid jersey which mocks me everytime i pass it.


Dry off after swim

Start off with some good speed as the beginning of the bike course is
down hill. As I settle into my ride, I am averaging 22mph on the flat
road thinking that i could actually have a better than avg first bike
leg for a first timer. Little did I know that that avg speed was going
to be short lived. Ed meet hills. Hills meet Ed. I went through the
first hill thinking (wow that was a little more difficult than expected.
I hope that there aren't a lot of these). Coming off the first hill, I
hit a record speed for me at 41.1 mph. If I crouched down any lower on
the bike for more speed, the bike would have been on top of me. Sorry
to be so crass but going that fast of a bike made me pucker up a little
bit. W&OD trail rides did not prepare me for these at all. Hill #2
(ok, this is not fun). Hill #3 (quads are starting to curse me out).
Hill #4 (legs are so mad at me that they stop talking to me and go
numb). Hill 5 (i can't get to the the small rings fast enough). DAMN
you hills!!!!!

Need to work on hills ALOT more.

Uneventful. Legs were gassed from the bike course but thought I did a
lot better in this transition than in the first one.


just need to more a little faster

Ran out of the transition area with legs cursing at me for signing up to
do this triathlon. Start with slight incline and then do down hill away
from the pool. I make a right onto the main road and say hello to the
1st of 2 hills (my legs again stop talking to me). I try to keep a fast
pace determined to finish strong with a sub 8 and a half min mile. That
lasted about 20 feet up the hill. New goal, just don't walk. The first
half of run was mostly uphill which had me thinking that walking part of
this run was inevitable. Fortunately, I was able to push through to the
turn around feeling good that i didn't walk. I felt even better that
the second half of this run was mostly down hill. I got to the entrance
of the pool with the uphill driveway but was able to power through and
run through the finish line. WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!! First triathlon
officially in the books.

Need to do more brick workouts after hill bike workouts

This was my first tri so had to rate it as average as i don't have a frame of reference.