Big Fish Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

As soon as my face hit the water, my goggles filled up. I darn near drown trying to get them to seal. I gave up and side stroked the whole race.

Check my goggles. It wasn't until the race was over that it occurred to me the cap is probably what caused the problem. They are great goggles that I never had a problem with until then. I'll train with a cap a few times now to make sure it'll work. I do sub 2 minute 100's in the pool so I'm sure I can improve on this for the next race

I used the transition to get my breathing back to normal. I didn't really try too hard to have a fast transition.

Hopefully next time I will be in better shape coming into the transition and will actually try to make it faster.

I probably did the least amount of training for this, because I wasn't worried about not being able to finish it. Also, there are no hills in Monroe county, other than overpasses, so I wasn't at all prepared for hills.

Train more for this. I'm using an old 12 speed, maybe I'll get some aero bars for it, until I decide to get a real tri bike.

I was still dead from that hill, so I took it easy here too. Speed laces helped alot. It took me a while to rack the bike, I had to scooch some room to do it. I started to go out the bike exit, until I realized I was going the wrong way. It's amazing what a lack of oxygen to the brain will do to you.

I may decide to go sockless, although at this point, I doubt that it would make much difference

I can't complain at all about my performance on the run, considering how I felt going into it. It's actually faster than my first 5K that I ran in February. At least I am getting better.

Nothing really, it took all the will I could muster to keep going.

walked around


Lack of experience. Overall physical condition


Other than the SNAFU with the goggles, I'm pleased with how I did. This was my first triathlon. I hadn't done any training at all until October of last year. I can't wait to do it again.