Tri Ridgefield - TriathlonSprint

By far the best OWS I have ever done!

Knew I was going to do a 14 min something in the swim and figured I would finish middle of the pack. Somehow upon finishing the swim there was no one around me and upon entering the bike there was still no one around me. I guess I had a good swim and finished towards the front?

I even passed people on the swim. What!?!?! Yes, I actually passed people on the swim!

Going into the swim was a rush and I was a lot more aggresive in getting past people and swimming over or around them. At the first bouy turn I took a nice kick to the jugular. Ouch! It wasn't that bad afterall.

Awesome swim! The water had to be 70 degrees.

I did my first triathlon this day last year and my half mile swim time then was 20 mins and change. Shaving off 6 mins in a year I think is called improvement. :)

Keep doing what I have been doing to see more improvment.

Long stinky run past the porto-pots. Wet suit came off as usual and I got my feet cleaned off enough to get the shoes on without socks and onto the bike. I had a great transition spot.

Still trying to figure out how to get onto the shoes onto the bike.

Got going on the bike and my inner quads were screaming at me! I wasn't picking people off left and right like I usually would because my swim always sucked. I was getting passed every now and then and I wasn't passing anybody. This is a first! Perhaps I did have a good swim afterall?

Speed wise, this was the best speed that I have averaged in a race and it was NOT a flat course either. However, this was not the best bike performace I have ever put in. I averaged 200 watts for the course, which should have been in the 220 range. My legs just didn't feel like they were firing on all cylinders. Coming out of the water and getting onto the bike my legs felt like ice blocks and climbing was excruciatingly painful.

Thats it, for the next race, I'm doing a freaking warmup on the bike! Enough of the "Icy Legs" that have been plaguing me in every tri I have ever done.

Bike more. Way behind this time last year. Need to do more speed intervals and pay attention to my watts to guide effort.

I got one foot out coming into transition, but didn't have enough room to get the other foot out in time, so I did the old fashioned method of getting off the bike. Saved a bit of time having the other foot out. Maybe I'll get another chance to finally do a flying dismount in a race.

Got my socks on quickly and off I went on the run. The transition spot again helped a LOT.

Time getting my feet out of the shoes better.

My legs were laughing at me for the first mile. I felt SO slow. Must not have been or else when my legs FINALLY opened up at around 1.5 miles I was booking it! Or either the run course was short or I was in fact booking it cuz I broke my 5K PR by 41 seconds. Never ran that fast before!

When I hit the top of the last hill, this spectator right there and then turned on his techno music and started blasting it. It was awesome :)

I did the run without any tape on my feet, but the remnant of my nasty blister never cropped up. So that is almost done healing. Still gonna tape it.

Upon entering the finish area there was a good sized crowd with an even bigger cheer coming from it and that totally inspired me to hit the gas for the finish. I felt the best during the entire race at the finish.

Keep doing what I'm doing. I went 5 mins faster in this 5K than during the 5K in my first tri exactly 1 year ago.

Drank water. My legs actually felt good. Found my family and said congrats to my fellow BT'ers


No warmup on the bike and my legs feeling icy cold at the start of the bike.


Doing this one again next year!