Since the swim is my strongest leg I like to take it out strong. My sighting was poor and I was even worse at actually swimming where I wanted to go. I also sighted way too often. My next race is longer so I'm hoping that will make me settle down which will help with this.

Swim where I want to go.

The one piece left slowing me down in T1 is my socks. I've been too much of a weenie to go sockless so I probably can shed between 15 to 20 seconds by scrapping the socks. Once I do that I can try leaving my shoes on the bike and then maybe drop another 10 to 15 seconds. I think I was about as fast here as I could have been while still putting on socks and shoes. (5/24)

Learn to go sockless and leave shoes on bike.

I rode pretty hard here and did so hoping that the training for my half marathon that I ran two weeks ago was going to get me through the run. It took me three miles to catch my breath from the swim and T1. Other than that I'm pretty pleased with this leg. It is clearly my weakness and I'm going to concentrate on the bike for my next race two weeks away.

Just need more training.

This went really well considering. I took my feet out of my shoes, tossed my leg over my top tube and coasted to the dismount line. While hopping off the bike my shoe came unclipped (oops) I've practiced this many times before and never had my shoe come off. I continued past the timing mat and lay my bike down and ran back to retrieve it. One of the volunteers tossed it my way. I picked it up and gathered my back and continued on. I suppose I was lucky there weren't too many folks behind me. I was still second fastest in my 'age group'. Fastest guy had my by 4 seconds. If I didn't lose my shoe it would have been close (2/24)

Not have my shoe fall off?

I came out of T2 FLYING. I wasn't sure how this was going to pan out so I tried to set a strong pace that I thought I could sustain. At the turn around I felt good so I just kept pushing. Had a strong kick at the end but not so strong that I felt like I left too much on the course. I'm pretty pleased with my pace. Need to go try another 5k out and see how my speed has progressed. Looks like the next one will be June 11, one week after my next tri (oly)

Probably nothing.

hands on knees. huffed and puffed. Ate a donut and had a bottle of water.


My lack of time on the bike. I've still got lots of room to improve here. I also have some aero bars I'm going to have installed for my next race. Hopefully that'll help some (if I can get used to riding on them in time.


This is a fantastic race for first timers and a pretty good race overall for what it is. Very short and close to my house :) Well done MS Heat!

I'm also really pleased with my 3rd place in my division. They only gave out hardware for the overall clyde winner so that was a little bit of a bummer. No worries though. I'm thinking/hoping that this will be my last year to be able to race as a clyde. I have another race in my sights for later in the summer that I'll probably race age group regardless.