John Tanner Sprint - TriathlonSprint

Good swim for me.I hung with some people that are better swimmers. The borrowed wetsuit worked beautifully. Sighting was good and I held a nice even stroke the whole time. I enjoy combat swimming and found myself being a little more aggressive this time.

Swim more in training. I did as well as I could have within my capabilities, and have no complaints

pretty good transition. I lost a few seconds getting the wetsuit over the timing chip. It was the first time I ever took that wetsuit off too, so good all things considered

Dont lose my wetsuit and practice

Ran out of transition and tried to settle in for a minute, but then K Spengler cruised by, and it was on. I ramped it up and chased him to mile 3 and then made the move to pass. We jockeyed a few times for position during the rest of the race. Came up to two slow moving cars and had to scream and do some dangerous passing on the right, then the left. That got my heart rate up and slowed us up for several seconds. After that point, kevin passed me again and I saw J22 and Luis at the turn ahead, so I screamed "let's go get them" and passed them at around mile 7-8. I was hairy from there as J22, Kevin, and Myself shuffled a bit. I ended up in the front the last 2 miles and kevin caught me coming into the park. I knew I could make up a few seconds in transition as I was prepping for the flying dismount. came of clean and quick

only thing that slowed me down were the stupid cars on the course. Nothing I can do about that. This was a fun ride and I enjoyed being out there with some friends in friendly competition.

Good transition. lost 2-3 second going left with my bike as someone wanted to go right. otherwise clean and quick

dismount on the left instead of right, where my rack is

Managed to get out in front of Kevin, but he was staying right on my heels. I was pretty taxed after the bike ride, and knew I would have to suck it up. I felt slow and sluggish, then we hit the big hill before the mile 2 turnaround and that's where kevin made his move and passed me. I stayed on his heels the best I could, but he built an insurmountable lead of 2-300 yards. I ended up with a sprint out with another guy at the end, which was fun. I was suprised to run sub 22. Set a 5k PR

Not much. run volume was slight this month with some nagging IT band isues

Rang some cowbell, brought in the rest of the members and ran out to Bill H to reel him in.
I shaved 5 minutes off a pretty good time last year, and raced my first AG non clyde and finished a repectable 6th. I am just happy to continue to make progress. Kudo's to my other NAMC competitive pals, we all made it tough on each other and we all had PR's.


training time, weight (still have some dead weight to get off).


good low key race. Post race festivities and food is a little weak, but these races are well organized and a great Value