CaveMan Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I had put down a faster time since I was easily doing 300 yards in 5 minutes. But a week before the race I injured my right shoulder so I wasn't able to push as hard. I passed about 6 people and I think only 1 person passed me. There was relatively little bumping in this pool swim.

Work on breathing and body rotation.

I finally made a sub 2 minutes T1 transition. This is my second triathlon and I feel this was a significant improvement.

Maybe start with shoes clipped in. I can do it in practice but for some reason I shy away from it during a real race.

The bike was great, the only problem was I had to stop at an intersection because a cop had closed it down to let traffic thru. I probably lost 2 minutes since I had to slow down, stop for a minute and accelerate again.

Very happy with this transition too.

Try to do a T2 in under a minute.

I started off the run at a good pace. Then after half a mile, I started to feel some heaviness in my stomach. I believe I had too much gatorade in my system. I started to slow down my pace and I was cursing that I had blown a good race. Then I started to sweat and as my body lost some liquid, I started to feel better. After mile 2, I was back in my peak running form and sprinted towards the finish. I was seriously expecting a 30 minute time and was pleasantly surprised to see I did it in 25 minutes.

Watch my hydration, work on mental conditioning to get me thru the HTFU moments.

Had some bananas and pancakes. Talked to some of the people I had met before the swim.


The timing results were screwed up at first but the guys worked hard to fix them.