Kinetic Half - Triathlon

Not really a good swim for me - I've yet to do a good 70.3 swim. This was roughly the same pace as my IMKY swim but I had a wetsuit on for this AND it was 50% the distance. I should have been 10 seconds faster per 100 for this.

Couple things that set me back: goggles fogging, tinted goggles in overcast, and my watch. I had to stop, tread water and fix my watch to not ruin how it functioned for the rest of the day. Forgot to turn off auto-stop.

This was my first swim using my watch during the swim, so that was something easy to fix.

I don't know why i can't piece together a good 70.3 swim. my 140.6 was great and i think it will be this year.

Bad bad bad.... had a new bike setup from 2 weeks ago and was just "confused" as to what to do here.

This is exactly why I did this race... practice. I needed it. This time was horrible. It should have been 1 minute less.

Very happy with time. It was a rolling course and I train totally flat, so I'm very happy here. Was annoying at all the drafting I saw which was clearly intentional.

1) know my bike setup better, was not comfortable with the water bottle things yet

2) get my biked tuned up. The RD doesn't work well since I got my new cockpit. I was missing the bottom 2 gears which I needed for clibming

Just need to get practice this more. Not good.

Take helmet off sooner, while running potentially. Get out of shoes on bike.

YES!!! Finally I put together a good bike and run in a long distance race! Not the best run I could have done, but maybe for this course. I might have been able to eek out another 2 minutes off, but no more. Course was challenging for me. Hills were so hard on the last lap.

NOthing, I hope I can do this again at IMKY. I've been waiting 2.5 years to piece one of these runs together and I finally did it. I think it was more mental than fitness - that said I'm definitely in better run shaper this year than last thanks to the 50k training last fall.

sat down and talked with Don, waiting a bit for Andy who was just slightly behind me. Caught up on course thoughts, etc. Drank a sprite.


Wetness of bike course, hills on run and bike, bad transitions and watch malfunction on swim.

I think I could have shaved off 5 minutes without mental errors and another few minutes on a dry course. Otherwise, it think this was a great effort for middle of IMKY training.

Next year (or possible B2B half this year) I'm going sub-5 - It is there.


Setupevents, as always, puts on a great race. If you are reading this thinking about this or any other SE race... do it. They are great.