In every facet of the endurance athletic world, pace is an athlete’s bread and butter. In triathlon, it is the sword the triathlete will live and die by. Triathlon pace is tricky because unlike other endurance sports in which you’re maintaining pace for a single repetitive action, in triathlon you’re switching from one discipline to another for a total of three unique sports! Between the disciplines of swimming, biking, and running, your average heart rate and power exertion are not created equal. In other words, your physiological state at race pace will vary throughout the event. This is the nature of triathlon – having to deal with pacing yourself appropriately through each leg of the race. For instance, your average…