Hey ya’ll, I have been training for sprint distance for about 2 months now. I am getting a little antsy; I really wanted to know if I could do it. So, I held a sprint dist tri for myself.
I have been fighting off a cough for about a week, it did not seem to effect me until the run.
I am hoping to race in my first “real” tri in August in the South Beach Nautica Tri.
The distance for the south beach tri is slightly longer than a regular sprint, swim 805m, bike 18mi, and run 4mi. Here is a break down of my attempt of a sprint tri.
Any comments, or suggestions are welcome.
Swim- 750m- time- 8:39, swam in my L.A. fitness pool.
T1- time- 6:66, I don’t have tri shorts yet, so I had to change out of my jammers, then put my stuff in my car, then start biking. This will get faster in the real race.
Bike- 12.4mi-time- 43.05, avg. sp. 18.10mph. This was done on a MTB. It was very windy, if its not I can post a much better time.
T2- 5.21- this time includes running .2mi to the start of my normal 5k course.
Run- 3.1mi- 27.09- This is my weakest point in the tri.
(other than the MTB
) I had a bad cramp at about mile 2, which is very unusual for me. This forced me to walk for about a minute. I used to run my bricks on a treadmill, but I will change that.
Total time- 1:30:00
Polar- Hr max 186
(94%
), avg. 170
(86%
)
After I was done I felt good. I have to muscle soreness, or joint pain. I think that I can finish the longer distance of the south beach tri. I train well above those distances for the swim, and the bike. I currently only run a total of 10 -11 miles a week. I will have to increase my running distance in order to perform well.
Thanks for any help, Mike