Philadelphia Triathlon in Fairmount Park - TriathlonOlympic

Well, basicly my swim sucks big time. Need to spend more time in the pool to get better on the swim.

Need to do something diferent to get the wetuit off quicker, and maybe even change the bike shoes to make them easier to get on.

Maybe have a stool so that I can sit down to remove the wetsuit and be able to get back up easier. Sitting on the ground, I didn't want to get back up as it was harder work on exhausted mussels.

The first hill was too soon, and I hadn't recovered from the swim to have the legs for the hill. I had to walk this first hill. I was able to stay on the bike for all other hills, except having to stop on one when the chain kicked off. Put the chain back on, and continued up the hill on the bike.

I need to work on my hills. I do hills at 3 to 4 miles per hour. I need to practice picking up my pace on the hills.

Had to sit again to remove the ike shoes and put on my running shoes, again had trouble getting back up from the ground.

Some kind of stool to sit on during transition. Also I think I want to try speed laces for the running shoes and maybe even the bike shoes.

I walked the 10k, about half way my hip starting acheing. I am not sure why this happened, but it then started my lower back hurting the last few miles I was limping and slowing down in my movement. Also the water at the water stops was all warm by this point and didn't help much at all.

One thing I would do, is not loose my gels. I had put two gels in my pocket, but when I went to get one out they were gone. Also I need to pick my pace up and start working at jogging.

I didn't really do anything but walk to the TnT tent to sit down and drink water, and eat a box lunch.


I need to train harder and more consistently.


The only thing I didn't like was that the drink stations didn't have ice to keep the water cold. Also the Heed the last water stations had was the lemon-lime that I can't drink, it tastes horrible to me.

Ed Note: I checked the web site and noticed my place keeps falling back. I think they are getting times for some of the listed on the original results ad possible DNFs. So I wanted to update this site with the current results.