The Qualicum Beach Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

The swim is my worst sport, although better than i expected, have mainly been training kicking drills just to improve my balance, helped so much. Now i need to work on endurance and speed.

Nothing, well except for more training!

Everything went awesome, much better than i expected. Decided on socks since i hadnt trained sock less at all, socks and shoes went on smooth. walked out of transition in an attempt to be gentle with my cleats and their horrible plastic adapter plates (not that it worked)

Train for having shoes clipped in.

Started out awesome, making up my time from the swim. Was feeling great until about 2/3rds into the 2nd lap and i noticed my left show was feeling lose in the pedal, on the top of my next rotation my shoe came right out!!! the plastic adapter plate for my cleats (SPD mountain bike style) had broken and the cleat was stuck in the pedal! so i had to ride the rest of the race with only 1 foot clipped in, which was quite limiting. Oh well other than that was a good strong race

Change my pedals and cleats (doing that today) Push harder

Since my cleat was broken, just decided to go all out and run into T2. Was a little shaky taking the shoes off, but by the time i had my runners on i was good to go, used speed laces on my shoes, worked awesome

Was a decent run, developed a pretty bad stomach cramp at about 2KM, but just pushed through it. Other than that was a good run, could have been a bit faster, but now i know what kind of a pace i can push in a sprint.

Get my pace up to my regular 5K

The swim was just pure lack of training. On the bike a broken cleat. The run was i just didnt push hard enough


Was an excellent first tri! Perfect course for someone just wanting to get a feel for the sport. Im hooked now!