The Lobsterman Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

I didn't push myself at all. I felt good, I was passing people, so I thought I was doing ok. I thought about my technique and such. But never really thought to slow down because I was going to hard. So I got into this pace that I just didn't want to get out of. I know I can swim a lot faster. But I was dogging my swimming in the week prior and never got that feeling of the race pace I wanted and that transpired into my race swim.

PUSH HARDER. I need to mentally know better what a race pace feels like so I know where I need to be. I bet HR wasn't above 145 the whole time.

My socks gave me a little trouble getting on, nothing major. But I felt that's the only thing that slow me down.

eventually learn to do this thing without socks

I was having fun out there, never really pushed myself to the edge. I kept picking people off 1 by 1. My power was down and the cadence was lower than I wanted it, so I know I had more in me if I wanted to dig down. But I only got passed twice, once at the very beginning by my friend who's a cat 3 cyclist racer and 1 guy on the back side on the major hill.

Nothing really, I was happy being my first Tri at this length. I have lots of room for improvement since I didn't max out my thresholds.

I cruised threw T2, my time was on the lower range of everyone else, so I'm happy with it.

Nothing

I'm happy where I was, in my bricks I was around 43:30. So with the couple of big hills involved here, I'm knew I wasn't going to hitting that mark.

Need to train on hills specifically more. There weren't many but they definitely took a punch out of me.

Just stretched and drank 2 Gritty's beers, they were free :)


Mentally, I need to become more aware of my thresholds and race pace. I definitely left some energy out there. But heck, this was my first one. 5 months ago, I didn't own a bike, hadn't swam more than 100 yrds since highschool and never ran more 4 miles. So I can only go up from here.


Can't wait until next year, definitely will be back. I did get a good cut on bottom of foot running from ocean to t1. I didn't notice it until after race, but had to go to first aid to get it wrapped up.