Esprit Montreal - TriathlonSprint

As mentioned above. Need to get my head in gear and be more motivated. I felt like I was weak on the swim and had a very hard time seeing where I was headed...fog free goggles...yeah right!!

Do more long distance swims so I can learn to pace myself better. I need to revert to a few breaststokes to find where I was going and catch my breath. I did better than on my first tri last month but with same time...I find that hard to believe since I did a lot more freestyle than last time.

Felt my T1 was slower than the last one. Took more time getting my shoes on and racking off my bike. Again I feel this was due to a mental wall I had. I lacked that "get up and do it" attitude I often have while training.

Nothing really. Just speed it up a bit

The bike is my weakest event by far. The FLAT TIRE was the last thing I wanted but I am very happy I finished it anyways. It was pretty motivating when I noticed that although I lost approx 14 minutes on the flat tire, I was still ahead of a few people who didnt get a flat. Sometimes, I think it's good for the morale to remember that you are not the slowest instead of always remembering you are not the fastest.

Learn to change a flat and train harder on my bike so I don;t lose so much time. You spend the most time of a TRI on the bike and I need to learn to love riding. Right now, I do it because I have to. I need to do it because I love to.

Not much to report. It was ok. It was still pouring rain so all my gear was soaked.

Put all my gear in a waterproof bag. I had one but didnt use it because when I went off to start the race it wasnt raining. That was tupid.

Felt strong and confident. I had worked a lot on my running so I was looking forward to it. On the last 2km, I started racing with this guy from Boston, we went back and forth the entire way. He tried drafting on me a few times but I would try to make it hard for him. He overestimated his pace and ended up running out of steem. That race was just what I needed, I pushed hard the last km and finished 15 seconds ahead of him..the small vicories are what keep us going sometimes.

I was happy with my run. Only thing I would do differently is go harder at the beginning, I think I underestimated myself and held back at the beginning. Probably could have saved a minute. I also would tie my shoes better, I had to stop three times to tie them. I was suprosed that my time wasnt lower than it was. Maybe because of the pouring rain. Bacause it was really coming down

It was raining so hard that my warm down consisted of heading for cover and drinking water...that's it.


Let's see.......RAIN, FLAT TIRE,....rain

And most of all...My weak a** legs that make me watse so much precious time on the bike portion


The event could have been great if it werent for the rain. The speakers they had for the announcers were too far from the actual event so we could barely hear. Some of the volunteers were so stressed out that they were practically rude. For the most part this event has what it takes tro be great. I would not however do the HIM or IM distances here, doing 40 laps of the same bike course is not what I call motivating.