Triathlon du Lac Beauport - TriathlonOther

The plan was to do everything possible to beat last year's time. I placed myself in a way that I would be into the traffic at the beginning, and it worked ;)

Sighting went pretty well, I have the feeling that I swam pretty straight versus last year. Since there was a lot of waves I swam with people from the start to the end. Trying to find a pair of feet to hold to, but no luck with that. I basically had to swim the entire km alone, oh well life is not always easy ;)

I got out of the water, and hit my watch when I hit the beach. Not a bad time, but not as fast as I expected. I thought that maybe today I would finally swim my km under 20, but no way. I still have to work on my swimming to reach that goal.

Train more, I need to swim more than that if I want to ever get faster

I had some problems with my suit, it got stuck on my heels. Didn't lose much time on that though. I then grabbed the bike, ran to the exit and jumped on it. New bike and not a lot of practice this year made it a tough one. I lost times trying to get my feet on the pedals/shoes and then getting up to speed.

Work on my flying mount again, I was getting pretty good at it last season.

I had no idea how my biking would go today, and I had my new bike on which I rode a total of 35km before this race. I was a little anxious, not too sure how it would go. I was pretty sure that the bike wouldn't be where I would gain time this year, but I almost finish with a split 3 minutes faster than last year.

I gave everything that I had on the bike, I couldn't see my speed since I didn't put my watch in the quick release (I was scared to lose it during the swim) So I just push hard, and harder.

It worked fine, bike felt really good. My legs were not at 100% though, I guess that 2 days is not enough I could still feel that they were tired.

I got a peak of 65km/h which was not too bad :) The bike handled really good in the wind, and in the turn also.

Train more on hills, especially since I will have to suffer for my half Ironman in September on the hills of the NY state ;)

This transition went almost flawlessly, I jumped off the bike and passed like 10 person while entering the transition zone. When I got to my transition spot there was a bike in my spot, which made me lose a couple of seconds but not much. Put my shoes on, grabbed my race belt and there I went for the race.

Not much

Going into the run my plan was to get a faster run split since my running has been really good so far this year. WRONG!!

Dammit when I got out of transition my legs were sooooo dead, I couldn't get any speed. I tried to convince myself that it was only 8km, that it wouldn't be too long. I honestly wanted to stop and walk a couple of times but I just kicked myself in the butt and kept running.

Eventually I saw the first km sign, then the second and the third. At that point I was going up a hill and I was suffering. I tried to keep a good pace, 4th km was better, going down a hill helps ;) Then the last 4 were just survival, trying to stay with a not too bad pace to finish with a good time. I finally finished the run a little bit more than a minute faster than last year. I will take this with the legs that I had ;)

Train more after a hard bike session, more brick on the menu I guess.

Stood there trying not to puke :p Then headed to the food and grabed some stuff to eat


Brick training and swim.


I like this race, it is close by. We train there with the tri club most of the time so I know the course. But it was still a tough triathlon, one of the tough one around here to be honest.

I can't say why, but there was less volunteers this year sadly. Aid station were almost always out of water when we were getting by. Other then that not much to say about the event.

5 minutes PR from last year, I will take this :) If I can get 5 minutes a year, I will win this thing in ... hmmm 5 years :P

Here is a pic of the elevation of the run course to give you an idea.