Analyzing Your Triathlon Results

Looking to find your triathlon results? Have you found a way to interpret them and get faster? Then read on. The experts at the Rock Star Triathlete Academy

have identified five keys to effectively finding analyzing your triathlon results.

1. Find Your Results. Obviously, you can visit the triathlon results page of the race in which you have competed, but sites like Athlinks.com, Trifind.com and Triresults.com allow you to not only search triathlon results for your splits, your competitors, your races and events, but also to compare races and find accurate data from previous year's races.

2. Analyze your Splits. Your race time is not all about your over all time. Break down your race by looking at your swim, bike and run splits. How do they compare? Compare your times and results on different race courses such as hilly vs flat, ocean vs fresh water, trail vs paved road. Look at you paces

"mile or km pace" for the run, and your "miles per hour or km per hour" for the bike and the run. The purpose of this is to focus in areas of fitness on which to focus during later season based on identified inconsistencies or limitations in earlier season races.

3. Look at your Data. Do you use a power meter and/or heart rate monitor? Look at your results for consistency in watts and beats per minute to ID unnecessary spikes in intensity, Compare your best race results and look at what happened with heart rate and power charts. Look at all variables such at heat, road conditions and topography when looking at you charts.

4. Make Goals. This is why you should analyze your triathlon results in the first place. Sit down and write a strategy on how you plan to improve you weaknesses. Is your cycling weak on hilly courses? Then Start doing hill repeats in training. Did you swim performance decline in mass swim starts? Then start playing water polo and rough housing with other swimmers in training. Did heat zap you? Begin to incorporate cooling down, hydration and electrolyte strategies. The best way to get faster is by tackling your weaknesses head on.

The key is to take all the variables above and generate a plan of attack you can use for helping you race at you best in the future.

And how about that fifth key? One crucial feature that we just added over at

The last key is networking with other athletes and sharing results and strategies for getting stronger. Your not alone other people have had to deal with the same situations as you.

From this you can learn what you did wrong and can improve.

Words of wisdom: If you don't measure it, it can not be improved. Track you results and data and learn from your mistakes. Be scientific and analyzing your results and strive on to reach you goals.