This last Sunday, I finally did it. Sprint Triathlon # 1 completed. Not quite the times that I was hoping for back in February, but after a while off of the training, I think I did pretty good. Here are my times:
Swim .5K | T1 | Bike 25k | T2 | Run 5k | Overall |
| 11:37 | 6:34 | 56:57 | 3:11 | 40:34 | 1:58:52 |
I have to admit, I learned a lot whlie running this race. Lets go in order of the race, shall we?
Swim:
- Don't skimp on the wetsuit by just getting a surfing top. It ballooned out with water about 1/4 of the way through the swim. It felt like I had weights on my arms. Not cool. I almost stopped midstroke to take the damned thing off.
- Do a warm up swim beforehand. I would have known about the Wetsuit, Water Temp, etc
- The swim is more mosh pit than pool. 60 people vying for that same spot around the bouy. Be ready for it.
T1:
- The nice toe socks that I bought to prevent blisters would have been impossible to put on after the swim. Luckily I had the same thought and switched them out before the race.
- Stage my equip a bit better for the race.
Bike:
- Actually things went pretty good on the bike. Gloves might have helped some of the road numbness in my fingers.
T2:
- Again, staging would have helped.
Run:
- He He...Practice more Brick workouts. My run was terrible. I probably ran 1 out of those 3.1 miles. It was that bad.
- At the end...keep going to cool down a bit. I almost went down past the finish line from stopping too quickly. Be careful next time.
Overall there was lots of room for improvement, but I finished, and I wasn't last. Those were my two major goals on race day. Oh sure I wanted a better time (around 1.5 hours), but it wasn't to be this time. Might do the Hickory Grove Triathlon in August. We'll see.
