Smithfield Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I was hoping that I would be able to come in under 5 min and I thought that I was doing good because I never touched feet or got my feet touched. But as you see by my time it didn't happen. I improved my swim from last year by only 25 sec but on the bright side I felt that I was more in control and felt much better after getting out of the water than last year.

Figure out where I am going wrong with my swim training and fix it.

15th Overall, 2nd AG. I was very happy with with this and felt good when I saw some people with faster swim times struggling and all I had to do was put my helmet and sun glasses on and go. I was back in a corner of the transition area which added a couple of seconds but since I had no control of that then there is no use in dwelling on it.

Nothing. It was perfect. The only thing I can do is hope for a a better transition spot.

When I started the bike I had a hard time getting my feet in mt shoes but I got them in and started to fight the headwind that caused everyone problems on the first half. The wind wasn't much of a problem but when I tried to down shift to get ready for the small hill right after the sharp 130 degree turn, my chain came off the chainrings. I stopped at the bottom of the hill to place it back on and lost about 15-30 seconds with the whole ordeal. I had only one person pass me the entire race and it was during this that it happened (I ended up catching him during the run). The ride back was very fast with the wind at our back and made up a lot of time. This was the first race using my new aerobars and they felt good but I somestimes felt like I wanted to slide back on my seat a more than usual.

Practice getting into my shoes more and figure out if it is mechanical in nature or if it was the way I shifted. If it was me then I need to figure how I did it and how to prevent it.

53rd Overall, 7th AG. I got out off my shoes with little effort and dismounted at a relatively high speed and ran straight to my rack. The guy who passed me was on my rack and had only one brake lever on the racking bar. When I threw my bike on there it knock his down. I thought about just leaving it there but thought that I would hope that if someone knocked mine down that they would rerack it. So I ended up wasting another 10 seconds or so reracking it. This was the first race using my Zoots and also not using socks. They went on well and I was on my way

Pay more attention to how other people rack their bikes and try to be a little more gentle with racking mine.

My run started out rough and I knew that I would have a problem getting the sub 20 minute time that I was shooting for. I started to have what felt like cramps at he top of my abs but they went away around the half way mark. I wished that it was a bit longer because I could have made up a lot of ground once I felt better.

Do more high intensity bricks.

Walked around and drank water.


I think I did well considering that we just had our first child 3 days earlier and the rest that I needed to perform at my best wasn't there. I also have been doing more endurance workouts to build a base for the Patriots Half later in the season, so my anaerobic endurance isn't quite there.


As usual Setup Events put on a great race. I was a little disappointed in the new awards policy in which they eliminated the Elite class. Now they just give awards out to the top 3 overall and the rest get put into their respective AGs. Its going to make getting a podium spot much harder. Just have to train more.