Austin Triathlon

I usually give pretty long race report but I'll try to keep this one a bit short. The Austin Triathlon was last Monday and I think it is the best race that High Five Events and Jack and Adam's puts on. Just a great race that is much better than CapTex. I hadn't felt in shape all year and even though I've been trying to train for Oly races, I haven't been as consistent due to the heat. I decided to try to switch to the sprint from the Oly 4 days before the race and I did. I didn't want to die during the race.

My swim was actually pretty damn good. I call it a very good tactical swim since I was able to follow feet almost the entire time and had a very good situational awareness during the race. I was able to hop from one set of feet to another set of feet that was better for me to follow. At one point, I was on 1 set of feet that was going a bit too slow for me. I saw to my right by about 4m a line of two guys that were going a bit faster and had a better line in the water. I ramped it up a gear and got over to them. Actually, I encroached on the trailing guy and if he was willing to fight for that space, I would've given it to him. Instead, I bumped him a bit and he let me have the front guy's feet. Awesome! I got tied up in the prior age group a bit which was tough but I got through it.

T1 was awesome for me because I actually ran through it and passed a few people. I had the fastest T1 of my AG. The bike is deceivingly not easy. There are two longish but not steep climbs that hurt some people and 1 short and steep hill. I pushed it a bit too hard on the bike and I knew it going into the run. I had 8th in my AG for T2 and then the run was horrible as usual. I really need to work on my T2 because I got caught up a bit by putting socks on and lost about 10-15s because of it. I was 22nd on the run (oh, I was 3rd on the bike) and finished with a time of 1:27:41 which was for 3rd place in my age group! I was totally not expecting that but I'll take it.

Swim: 13:11/4th/1:53
T1: 2:10/1st
Bike: 45:56/3rd/21.94
T2: 1:30/8th
Run: 24:52/22nd/8:01