Turtle Crawl Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Fast swim because of current. I don't own a wetsuit yet, so could have probably gained a minute or 2 if I wore one. I only breath on my right side so had a little trouble navigating. Bumped into a few people. Felt good coming out of the swim.

Practice sighting better. Learn to do bilateral breathing.

No wetsuit to take off so T1 was pretty fast. I was at the very end of my row, which made it easy to find.

Felt really good on the bike. Course was flat which was great b/c that's what I've been training on. Only complaint was that there were a few cars to deal with. There were a couple of cars/vans that were going about 10 mph and had to pass one car on the left and another car very closely on the right. Took another GU roctaine about mile 12. Drank a bottle of water on bike.

Probably pushed it a little too hard and should have saved some for the run. Drink 2 bottles of water/gatorade instead of just 1.

Fast. Felt good going into run. Took a 3rd GU roctaine right before run.

Didn't tie my Yankz up tight enough.

Ok. This is where it fell apart. I am not real fast, but going into the run I thought I would be in good shape to finish the race at close to 2 hrs. 30 mins. I felt great on first mile, then at about mile 2 it hit me- the stomach cramp from hell. I thought it would go away but it just got worse the rest of the run. I'm pretty sure I was way too dehydrated. It was very hot. I downed water/gatorade at every station, but it didn't help. I had to walk a lot.

Drink a lot more on the bike. Do a few more bricks. Train later in the afternoon in non-shaded areas to get used to hot weather. Run with Fuel Belt.

Drank 3 bottles of water, ate a banana and some cookies. Tried to eat bagel but it made me sick.


Heat, wasn't hydrated enough.


This was my first Olympic. I felt pretty good about my overall time, even though I was last in my age group (of course there were only 20 in my age group and I think most of them were seasoned veterans). I could of registered at a clydesdale since I'm over 200 with shoes on, but thought I would go with age group.

This was the first destination race for our company Tri Team. I think we had about 15 people from our team that did either the Sprint or Olympic. It was awesome having other team members, family and friends cheer us on.

This was a fun and fast course. I am pretty sure our team will come back here next year. I look forward to improving my time (especially the run).