Splash, Flash & Dash Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Was hoping to swim around a 5:20 but they didn't start you off by seat time. They just let whoever start wherever they wanted. This put about 15 people in front of me that swam it in probably 6 or more min. Really slowed me down at the walls as they kept taking the inside path and cutting me off. At one point we had 4 ppl at the wall at once. i just said screw it and pushed them out of my way. I don't like not being nice but i was getting frustrated and they should have lined up better.

just cut in front of people before the race start.

Was a long run from the pool to the transition area. I didn't mind the barefeet on the asphalt/concrete but wasn't prepared to run that fast/far right after the swim. Didn't leave shoes clipped into pedals. didn't practice it enough before hand to feel confident I wouldn't take out my future children and/or fall over.

Leave shoes on bike

The Start was slightly downhill which was nice to get clipped in. Had two HUGE speed bumps right on the way out. had to take those slow. The largest hill on the course was right after these speed bumps so getting back to speed and into a comfortable cadence before these was hard. I was dying for the first mile of the ride or so. I did no swim to bike work and it hurt. was definitely the hardest part of the race. Struggled to get my breathing and heartrate in check. After the first 1.5-2 miles i got into a grove and felt great. at about 2 miles left I picked it up and tried to makeup for the first 2 miles.

Practice biking after a hard swim. Possible not push the 1st mile as hard and let my HR get back down before starting to push

My rack was very near the entrance/exit for the bike portion so it made running in my bike shoes easy. Got turned slightly around on exiting for the run so probably added 10 sec. there.

Pay more attention to path to take to run exit.

Running off the bike wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Still didn't get moving until about a mile in. I'm a slow runner so anything with avg pace under 9/mile is good for me. definitely negative split it. did the last 1.5 miles in 12:45 so with some more brick work should be able to drop my time easily

Practice running off the bike a bit more.

Stretched and talked to my parents and a friend from college i hadn't seen in 4+ years while we waited for my sister to finish. she did great on very little training. We both had a blast


Just need to bike/run more. Would like to drop 30-40 sec. in the swim for this distance. i have the potential just need to get in the pool 5 or so times a week


Not having a frame of reference to go by since this was my first race i'd still have to say that it was a very organized race. Would make a great first race for anyone. All the volunteers and police officers were very nice and cheered you on. I thanked them all for the support.