Setting my goals for Saturday

The Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon - Sprint is on Saturday morning. So, I thought it might be a good idea to start stating my goals in advance so I don't get any trash about making them up after the race. Of course, now I'll get trash about missing my goals... so, I better make them achievable... sounds just like being a CEO!
This race is a little different from the "Black Bear". The swim is longer (900m v. 750m), which helps me relative to the competition since that is my stronger event. The bike portion is shorter (24K - a little less than 15 miles v. 18 miles) and the course is relatively flat - so, I'm expecting a higher average speed on that. Then the run is about the same at 3.1 miles (5k).

My goals for Saturday:

• Swim; 14:30 - a shade faster pace than the Black Bear swim but I was pretty tight for that. Hopefully the experience will keep my heart rate from going out of sight again. I'm a little concerned that they have my wave starting last (old farts in the rear!) so I need to be prepared to swim around stragglers from the earlier waves.
  
• Bike; 55:00 - based on my Black Bear pace this would be more like 58:00, but I'm thinking it will be faster on the flat. And, since it is shorter I'll try to kick it a little harder.
• Run; 23:30 - about half way between the pace of the "Black Bear" run and the "Media 5 Mile".
  
• Transistions; 5:00 total - about a one minute improvement over "Black Bear". However, this could vary quite a bit based on how they have the transition area set up. At BB the transition was a long way from the bike mount area - so, that added a lot of time to the Swim to Bike transition time.
  
• Total; 1:38:00 - we'll see....

Check back here to see the results sometime on Saturday afternoon. If you are following me on Twitter, you will get an update soonest.
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