I forgot to start my watch when they sent us off the wall at the beginning. Part of the reason was the lady next to me was talking to me when the judge was giving the countdown and I just left as soon as he said GO. I should have had a better handle on this and just kind of ignored her a little (I guess????). She was trying to find out if she should let me go ahead of her. It didn't matter because I would have cruised by her in the first several yards.
Since I didn't have a good swim WU, I tried to pace a little slower than I thought I might want to go later. Once I got the first 100 yds. in I kind of increased my pace slightly. The data is showing nearly all (except for the first 100) 25 yd. lengths at :22.? with 7 lengths at :23.? and an average for the race that seemed to fit my goals.
I lapped the lady in the lane with me t least 7 times. Whenever we got to the wall at similar times I did open turns to keep from getting tangled up. We kind of beat each other up a few times by smacking our hands together as we passed each other.
After the swim I had a few minutes to think about the swim and figured I was in a zone close to what I would have expected but I may have had a just a little bit more left than I should have knowing I had a 10 minute recovery time before the bike.

Started my watch as soon as the race started. I might have been able to go a little harder toward the end and gotten another 25 yards.

This was a fixed transition time. Each person had the same amount to change their clothes and get to the Peloton Center.
I had all kinds of time to do what I needed to do.

This was a solid ride! I knew I would have 5 minutes to recover from the ride prior to getting on the treadmill to run so ignored what I would normally plan to preserve something for my legs.
They had put everyone's bike in the same gear which was considerate of them but I needed a lower gear to get started because I still have some fine tuning to do after changing the chain and tweaking the derailleurs. Anyway, I began kind of like I would if it were a MLSS test. The first 3-4 minutes was hard but then I tried to nail it a little more. I spent time in both hard and very hard zones and I would say that I was 50/50 here.
For the final 1:30 I dropped my workload a little so I could begin my recovery and allow my legs to get a little bit of a break before the run. I was still running 23.5 MPH in the "easy" zone with a cadence of 93-95 RPM's.

I should have thought a little better about the recovery time I had between the bike and run. I should have went hard all the way through. I actually think this might have been enough to drop me to third place overall, but more on that in the final comments.
I should have went HARD to the end!!

This was a fixed transition time. Each person had the same amount of time to get to the treadmills.
I had all kinds of time to do what I needed to do.

I started the race at just under a 7 minute mile pace but quickly recognized that was too slow. I increased the pace several times throughout the race a couple of tenths of a MPH at a time. I did this several times.
I underestimated my ability to run hard on the treadmill for this race. The AC was set low enough to really make things much more comfortable to run in. As I approached 8-9 minutes in, I could tell I could increase my pace more than I thought I might have been able to handle in the beginning. I increased my pace again and settled in around a 6:30 pace for the next several minutes. Again with about 5 minutes left in the race I decided to increase speed yet again with another plan to got harder still with 2 minutes left. Once I hit 2 minutes left I went up to 10MPH for a speed. This is where I should have been much sooner! I am certain I could have held that pace for at least 5 minutes.

I would have run harder sooner! I should have run this race more like I would run a normal outdoor sprint........Almost with reckless abandon. For the sprint races I did last year, I ran with little caution. I didn't consider a lot of pacing strategy, instead I completed the race at full tilt.
I should have planned a little bit. I didn't plan this race at all. Had I planned this race and thought through a few things I would have been better prepared to go all out for all 3 disciplines.

Panted and sweated profusely! That's all!


I think the idea of an indoor race kind of threw me off my normal game some. With all the recovery time I was able to get between each event


I am a little hesitant to post this because I hate the idea that I could be labeled a complainer BUT.
The swim has me questioning the person who counted my laps. Here's what I know! I didn't start my watch until I started the lap to go toward the 125 yard wall. After the race I checked the data and I swam, according to Garmin, 1225 yards in 18:55. I have myself convinced that I started my watch when I left the wall after I hit 100 yards.
I have a couple of questions that I cannot reconcile in my mind:
1. Can I swim 100 yards in a racing situation in 1:05? WOW! If I can.
2. If I started my watch at the 50 yard mark would it have been enough to catch the 2nd place finisher?
There was a small enough gap between 2nd and 3rd that if I had gotten credit for 1325 yards instead of the 1225 they credited me with, i would have gotten second place.
Either way, if I would have pushed completely through the bike and pushed sooner on the run I know I would have moved into second place.
The loss of second place is totally on me!!! I could have performed better and I know it. I simply didn't prepare for this race the way I would have normally. Put me in the field and I think I could have been better prepared and much more on my game.
No matter the placement because I got a heck of a nice Finis Swimsense watch..........FOR FREE!!!
Results link: http://3riversrunning.com/media/67ae4590466601e1ffff8060ffffe415.pd...

Updated to include the power data used during the cycling portion of this ride.
My power average for the entire ride was 270 watts.
The peak wattage was 310 as I recall. There may have been several peaks but this is the one that I remember.