New Jersey State Triathlon - Sprint Distance - TriathlonSprint

I was happy I passed quite a few people on my swim. I did freestyle the whole time. I did not like swiming up on people as his would slow me down until I could pick a route around them. This was a wetsuit legal race however I did not own one at the time of the race. I improved on my time from last year.

Try to sight other swimers to pick a better route throught the pack.

I put my shoes on in Transition and hobbled with bike. I thought I did well but my time tells me diffrent.

More practice getting into shoes is needed, and practice mounting bike is needed.I always wear socks for biking I may reasses my needs over the next few weeks to determine if this can be skipped to save time.

Soon as I turned onto Hughes drive I hit a pothole, while trying to get around another rider, this launched my water bottle off the road. Not sure where it landed I paused to look for it and didn't see it.

More time on the bike will result in a better bike segment.

This went very well no problems, my transition spot was in the grass so running in bike shoes was not bad.

Due to leg injury could not run as much as I wanted but overall was good.

Water and walk to cool down, I got a masssage after the race, this is something I recommend, there may be a wait but it was worth it.


On Saturday, I injured my left leg slipping on a wet floor, this made it difficult to raise my leg up. During the swim and the bike the injury was not noticable however on the run it was quite painful and resulted in my walking more than running.


I wanted to improve over my times from last year and I did. With more training and the Tri bike I shaved 18 min off my time. If I can fix my T1 time I'll shave a few more off next year.

The volunteers and staff were great, I look forward to doing this race again next year.