2575 Las Olas/Miami - TriathlonSprint

3-4ft waves made the swim the first buoy a bit difficult. After the buoy turn was relative easy swim to the last buoy. Because of height of waves found it actually fast to backstroke than freestyle until the final 50 yards.

I was the second to last swimmer in the water. Probably a good idea since not a strong swimmer.

An extra minute wasted because of taking off wetsuit but probably made up for it having it on during swim. Was a bit of a run from swim exit to T1 which either made the swim time or T1 a little longer. I chugged a bit of water from my bottle because I did not want to on the bike.

Waiting to get completely out of water before starting to remove wetsuit

Pretty good tailwind to begin, averaging about 24.5 mph and then no wind through park and then headwind, averaging between 20-21 mph. Fairly easy bike route but many turns that brought time down.

If course was long would have brought water, decided to just hydrate at T1 and T2 instead. Need new wheels, only have stock wheels on nice tri bike.

Not really sure because it was added into the run time.

Since there was no T2 time listed its assumed it was grouped in with the Run. I used my watch to time my run and it was about 24:00 and the time in the results was 26:01. Run time was okay. Usually complete a 5k run in around 21-22 min so it was okay after the swim/bike. Shoes also came untied which ate up about 20 seconds.

faster cadence possibly, shoes not untied.

little stretching


Only my second triathlon. Race and learn!


Had a good time considering the race venue was switched a month out.