Midwest Mayhem Triathlon - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

Swim to first corner was excellent. Swam 'free', breathing was good, and passed a lot of people.

After rounding the corner, I decided to swim 'Breast' during the long straight away. After coming off the DL list, I thought this would be the best move to save myself for the rest of the race since I have a strong breast stroke anyhow. I was keeping up with people while they were doing 'Free'.

After turning the last corner, my plan was to finish up with a solid 'Free'. This failed miserably. I turned the corner and could not see a thing because of the combination of the sun and my goggles fogging up. I was literally disorientated and I'm sure my swim looked like a long, windy road. People began passing me and I was truly demoralized.



Get some anti-fog for my goggles.

Took my time just like I planned. Did I say I didn't like those wooden wheel bike racks? It started to pull up when I freed my bike.

Step on the bike rack when I pull my bike up.

We all know that biking isn't my forte, but I am very happy with my bike performance. I grinded up the hills, coasted down the hills (to rest), and hammered on the straights. I was so stoked to be passing people with nicer bikes then mine. I was even more excited when I began passing people from the Sprint Triathlon (even though they were older, heavier, and on mountain bikes). :)

I witnessed one cool thing, a guy passed me up with a little Kid Rock playing from somewhere on his bike. I have to get one of those, but I might be jamming some Bride or something.

Work on my cornering. I tend to brake more, instead of taking wider and faster turns.

Another nice and long transition. Changed my shoes, ate a gel, sucked down some water, chit chatted with Mel (Jeremy's wife-I have no clue how she got into the transition area), and took off.

Nothing.

Felt good going out of the chute and continued through the whole run. Strange thing was I felt like puking before Mile 1. The rest of my body felt awesome, but my stomach wanted to puke even though it didn't ache neither. Very weird. I'm wondering if I overdosed on gels.

Anyway, a little after mile 2 I came to an intersection and there were maybe 10 racers standing around talking about where the course went to next. There were no signs or people directing us where to go. We made a collective decision on the direction we should go and thankfully we were right.

After that mess, I was soon running with a lady from Olathe. We chit chatted the rest of the race. Never done that in a run before, but it made time fly by.

Honestly, I had more juice in the tank. I could've pushed the run harder, but I didn't want to overdo it neither.

By the way, I think the run course was shortened a little bit. Maybe 2 or 3 tenths of a mile. Very nice and scenic course.

Good run, but I could've pushed it harder. Study my map more.

Drank two glasses of water, began packing my gear away, talked with Jeremy for a short, talked with Dina, looked at the prelimanaries, went to Matts and ate hamburgers and brats. Yummmmmmmmm!


Being on the DL list because of my back and then because of my fever a few days before the race.


Good race, but could've had better directions on the run course. Also, get real bike racks, not the wooden, wheel holders.