Carmel Sprint Triathlon (formerly Splash, Flash & Dash) - TriathlonSprint

I felt good on the swim and caught the people ahead of me quickly and found myself behind a pack of swimmer that took me a long time to get around. I'm not much for shoving through so I just waiting and jumped through holes where I could.

Seed myself more quickly, focus on form.

I just practiced the whole jumping on the bike with the shoes already clipped in last week. I guess I didn't do to bad with it.

I spent a lot of time on rain soaked socks and that cost me a ton of time.

The course was great with a ton of volunteers and police keeping traffic away (thanks to both!) The rain mostly held off and the course didn't seem to slick. I didn't think the hills cost me anything really and I enjoyed the ride a lot.

Learn to transition quicker, have water on the bike (duh!! oops) and push it for this distance.

My gear wasn't organized because of the rain so I wasted some time and spent more time on wet sock problems but still better than last time.

Set up better, focus, drill for this.

That was the longest first mile I have ran in a long time. My GPS confirmed their mile was a mile, my legs argued though. I have been battling IT problems for months so I can't complain. I am not a fast runner to begin with so I can't complain, I stayed under a 10min/mile so I'm ok.

Run faster, train more in brick.

Stopped, ate, drank, walked. Found more food, left nothing behind.


Not well enough prepared, some pool problems but not bad. I improved over my last triathlon so I am happy.


I had a good time, wish mother nature would have been more kind but I had a great day, thanks to all the organizers and other athletes for their help and advice.