13th Sept 2009 Sunday - Tri factor; happy with swim timing but not wiith total timing.

Today's Tri factor race was my 2nd OD tri race for this year. My target was 3 hr 5 min, trying to shave off 5 min from the last race in July PD which I did 3 hr 10min. I was taking this opportunity to work on improving transition timing. This time I try cycling without wearing shock, and it turned out to be comfortable without it. I was planning to run trying to run without short but too fearful that I might get blister and felt it was wise not to do it during race. Have been advised that technically both transition timing can be improved without wearing shock.

Swim time - 1.5km - 40min T1 3min
Bike time - 1hr 18min T2 3 min ( some said it was 36km, my odometer registered 37km)
Run time - 10km - 1hr 3 min
Total timing - 3hr 7min; 2min off my target of 3hr 5 min, quite disappointed though but happy with the swim timing.

Next OD Tri target will be <3hr.
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