St. Patrick's Day Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I had trained a lot for swimming coming into this event. My goal was to swim a good pace without getting my heart rate up. I passed 2 people in the first length, I was making good speed then around 200m I got stuck behind this bunch who were crowding the whole lane. I also lost some time at the ladder waiting for the people to exit the pool

Work on my breathing and use my arms a lot more, saving the legs for the bike.

The weather was very cold. It took me a while to get dried off to put my socks on. Also putting my gloves on took a while too. My goal is to make this transition under 1:30 next time.

Put gloves while on the bike and practice with the shoes already clipped in the bike.

This was my first race on the new aerodynamic bars I had put on my bike. I was able to see the difference in the race, I probably passed about 20 people in the first lap itself. I had really worked on my climbing, so I was much faster on the hills than some of the other people. I backed off a little bit at the end in order to conserve my legs, but could have gone about a couple of minutes faster.

Work on hydration on the bike and also push a little harder.

I was working as hard as I could to get through this transition as fast as I could. This is something I just need to work on in other races.

The course felt way longer than it was. I thought I was almost halfway done when it said "Mile 1". The brick conditioning really paid off as I felt no pain whatsoever coming off the bike.

I didn't pace myself properly. I had a lot left in me after the run. My goal was to do it under 25 min and I didn't accomplish that. Next time I am going to push much harder on the run.

I am just going to keep working on my transitions and push harder on the bike and run.