Tri for Fun #3 - TriathlonSprint

A brutal swim. How can such a short swim be so terrible? There were a ton of overzealous swimmers in my wave (the first) and I was repeatedly grabbed, kicked, scratched, smacked and pushed throughout the entire race. Never got into a rhythm, but still emerged from the water with a respectable time - I had been shooting for under 7 minutes, so I'm relatively happy to have made it through a good :30 south of that mark. Still, I'm incredibly disappointed by the tactics of some of my competitors. Scratching? Seriously? I have the mark on my leg to prove it.

Stay focused and maybe veer off into more open water to get away from the riff raff.

Since I had racked my bike toward the far end of transition, had a bit of a ways to run. Decent transition, would have liked to do this faster, but my head was out of the game at this point thanks to the rough swim.

Come back to earth and try to run through this faster.

Happy with my performance on the bike. A relatively flat course with just a couple small rollers. I hunkered down in aero position most of the way and try to keep a high cadence. For most of the ride, I was cruising b/w 24-25 mph. Satisfying ride.

Pretty quick. Felt good coming off the bike.

Great run. Per usual, I passed a good amount of people on the run. Felt comfortable and cruised to the finish. Hit the hills well and fell into a nice rhythm. Time was a bit inflated by the climbs, but I'll take it.

Open up my finishing kick earlier.

Just some light stretching and nutrition.


Transitions need work. Also, I was mentally shaken up in the swim - I've never experienced that before. Although my swim split was pretty solid, the jostling kind of got me off-track a bit.


A solid race series for sure. It's really low-key, "just for fun" so it's tough to judge this one. Still, I had a good time, beat my goal of breaking 1 hour and outside of the swim, the rest of my experience was positive.