The Austin Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

I need to practice sighting bad. I was off course so much I'm pretty sure I added at least 100 yards to this swim. Overall I felt 100x better than I did after my first olympic getting out of the water, but I dreadfully need to gain some speed.

Practice sighting, and get in some "open water" swims at barton springs pool. All the time I gained everywhere else was negated by my terrible swim performance.

Felt great on this transition. Just about a minute quicker than captex which I contribute 100% to feeling more comfortable out of the water. I wasn't gasping for breath so I could run in and out of T1 (guess I didn't swim hard enough?)

I wish it would rain prior to the auditorium shore races cause the dust is crazy. With the length of transition there's not incredible amounts of time to be gained here.

Obviously bike isn't my limiting factor.

Not much, actually felt pretty good on the bike and that I took in the right amount of fluid, and didn't take my gel too early after getting out of the water.

Felt good, cut over a minute off from last time.

Not much time here either with the transition area size.

I dunno what my deal is. My legs felt okay, but my breathing was horrible. I dunno if I just don't have the fitness at this point or what. I wasn't cramping up or anything and my stomach felt great, I just couldn't keep moving. Maybe I just need to htfu or something.

Run more, lots more as usual. I need to htfu and sign up for the feb marathon which should definitely help with the run fitness.

Ate some food, drank some recovery drink, met a few ppl from BT and met up with some friends doing the sprint.


The terrible swim, and the run still not being where I want it to be. I did PR the distance by 57 seconds tho haha. The gains I made in the bike run and both transitions were negated by the swim unfortunately.


Best race I've done so far organization wise. Great schwag and post race activities included a beer garden, live band, ice cream, and they let us leave with our bikes relatively quickly which was nice.