Honolulu Triathlon - Sprint - DuathlonStandard

Felt like I drank too much and needed a stop..continued to run until the feeling went away. about 3/4 of the way I felt my right hamstring start to tighten. I backed off the pace and just maintain an easy pace to the transition. Wanted to maintain about a 15 Sec faster pace.

More stretching during the warm up.

Many rocks in the transition area and had to wipe my feet off before putting my shoes on which took time. Not ready to try locking in my shoes yet. Ran with the bike out of the transition and past the mount point with out stopping and jumped on the bike, getting up to speed very quickly

Tape the gel packs to the bike and try locking in the shoes.

I knew I had to push very hard during the race because of how my hamstring felt and was not sure I would be able to run to finish. I pushed hard the 1st mile and felt my legs start to give a little go I took a gel and dropped a gear to pick the spinning up, it work and I felt fine quickly. I took a gel every 3 miles and I maintain my speed. With 2 miles to go i gave all I could to the end. I had my feet out of the shoes and jumped off at the dismount point and ran to my position.

Not worry about drafting penalties. More speed work on the train up.

spent time talking with other racers and drinking water from water bottles.

take the drinking bottle with me to drink while moving.

Took a very easy pace and just tried to continue without causing any more damage. Stopped 3 times to try and stretch my hamstring.

get a massage a few days before a race.

walked around for 15 minutes and stretched my hamstring for about 5 mins.


I think with more distance training I am ready to up to the Olympic distance. Very happy with my overall performance and placing.