5430 Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I'm ok with this considering the lack of time in the water this year. Stopped after the 1st 100 or so because it felt like my timing chip was coming undone and I had to breast stroke a bit to catch my breath every few minutes but otherwise it was ok. Was in the back of the wave with all the backstrokers & zig zaggers which is dangerous territory, it was a bumpy start. Some slight uncomfortableness from my should when I breast stroked but none at all when I was swimming so I was relieved about that since this was the first sustained swim since the cortisone shot. I did have some uncomfortableness when I got elbowed in the eye rounding the 1st buoy though.

I'm not a coach, but I think swimming more than 1400m on the year would help my swimming. Then again, with my swimming, maybe not...

I was kind of dizzy and almost fell over when putting on my socks & shoes, never had that before, but otherwise this went well.

Be more upright?

Hmmm. Well my stomach had kind of cramped up or bloated on the swim and it was still that way leaving the res. I was passing some people going up the hill on 36 but I could feel I didn't have much power in my legs either. Went back & forth with a few people up that hill but once we got past it I left them behind. Once I got past that my stomach settled down somewhat. I wanted to pick up a water bottle since I was really thirsty and had forgotten mine but they had the aid station at the bottom of a hill and didn't like my chances of grabbing a bottle at 30mph. I was struggling a bit to hold my pace by the diagonal where there was a small headwind & I started getting a sidestitch again. I knew I couldn't do a 44:xx like last year but I thought a 46ish was possible - overall not a great bike, but it could've been worse.

Remember my water bottles, do more sustained efforts in training.

Everything was smoove here.

Get to transition sooner.

Took a few steps out of transition and, wow, had some serious doubts about whether I could run at all, my legs were completely fried like nothing I've felt before. Settled into a slow pace but my abdomen was seizing up and I had to stop a few times when i thought I might throw up. Got it down to a managable side stitch going across the dam, and based on experience I figured it would go away soon, but it never did. Any time I tried to pick up the pace it would turn into a giant stomach cramp. I'd been doing low 8's in training (though no bricks) so to run this slow was frustrating. It was frustrating because I knew I coud go faster and even more frustrating was getting passed by everyone, and not just passed, but everyone was flying by. I don't think I passed a single person. Forgot my HRM (yes, another mis-step on the day) so I'm kind of curious what it would've said about my effort level.

More bricks and more sustained hard efforts. And even though it's only a 5k, I think I still need more of a base if I want to actually be able to race this.

Got some food and beer & chatted with Ryan & Adam & Julia.


Lack of training and lack of focus in my training. I also think I was somewhat dehydrated. Was thirsty walking to the water and I forgot my water bottles for the bike.


Although my performance was less than stellar (mainly the run) it was still a well organized and fun race. Great to see a lot of people who've been in hiding this spring, and it was nice to be back racing again.