Triathlon Results
I finished.
I haven’t seen the official time yet but I suspect it is right about 2:02. I had a lousy swim, beautiful if windy bike ride, and it was a great day for a run.
I wasn’t very prepared for today. I have a lot of good excuses for my lousy swim but the major factor was that I wasn’t prepared. Maybe having a cold and the lack of breathing through my nose contributed. Still, hitting the pool is in order between now and September.
I’m glad that I’m able to complete a triathlon without much prep. However, this will hopefully be the kick in the butt I need to get ready for the Trihawks in September. I want to do better than “just finish” that race.
The bike course was a bit longer than the pigman sprint. The aero bars on my bike were a success. I was able to average about 1.5mph better pace than I did in June according to my cyclocomputer. I can certainly feel it a bit more in my hips when I run following the bike with aero bars but a little more training should work that out.
I also managed to keep myself better hydrated on the bike leg of this race. I have to remember that I’m not just out for a Sunday drive and as I push up the hills I need to force myself to keep drinking. I have this same problem while at my desk at work. Gotta remember to keep taking in water.
Sadly I noticed a week and a half ago that my front derailleur is way out of whack. I got it back into mostly usable shape as I didn’t have time to get to a shop. Because of this my chain popped off twice on the first hill of the race. I was passed by 2 people on the bike leg and I’m positive that one of them wouldn’t have caught me if I hadn’t had that issue. The other bike issue was just a dumb error on my part. I was trying to put my water bottle back in the cage when I hit a bump and dropped it. I stopped, went back and got it. USAT rules say no abandoning gear on the course, the bottle was right where the guy behind me would hit it, and most of all I’m WAY to cheap to leave a $20 Gel-BOT laying on the road! I’m thinking of devising some kind of little bungee to put on the neck of my water bottles so that I have a fool proof way to retain them while trying to put them back in the cage.
I’m headed to a week in San Francisco tomorrow morning at 6:00 am. I plan to bring the running shoes, swimsuit and goggles along on the trip. No time like the present to start working on the Trihawks training.







