This was my first pool swim, and it was chaos. I put in that I do a 7 minute 300m time(which was accurate when I set it) but recently I have been doing 6:20-6:30 300m. I figured that with the traffic in the pool I'd end up at about 7 minutes, so no big deal. I quickly found out that I'm the only one who reports a time slower than my actual time. I was running up people all throughout the swim and ended up passing 6-8 people out of frustration. It was a pain dealing with slower people in front of me, though not unexpected.

Post a faster time when I sign up. If I had been about 10 people ahead in line I probably would have been able to swim at my normal pace for the most part.

I'm slow in transitions. I'm not at a point where 15 seconds will keep me off the podiums or anything so I don't worry about it too much.

I pushed too hard on the bike overall. I should have held a little more in reserve for the run, but I couldn't help myself. It was too much fun passing people. ;)

I had been practicing the running dismount but couldn't quite make it work this time. Again, my transitions aren't super-important to me so I'm not losing any sleep over it.

No real complaints here, though my breathing pattern wasn't quite as good as I had hoped. I got in a groove and stuck with it, and I only had 1 spot where I seriously considered walking.

Drink a little less in the ride before the run.

Does drinking water and trying not to vomit count as a warm down?


Gravity.


Ironhead seems to be good at organizing races every time I go. The run course could have been a little less confusing at the start and the bike route could have been on a little better roads(there was one bad stretch for 3-4 miles, but otherwise it was fine) but the race was run well overall.