Young Life Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Being one of the first couple people out of the waterwas my only goal for this race. After that, I didn't care that much how things went.

Got off to a good start and had a few people just behind and on either side of me. After 100 meters or so, I slowed a bit to see if I could coax one guy ahead so I could draft. No good. He slowed too. So I kept going. After a few moments, though, I surged to open a small gap. The remainder of the swim, the next swimmers were a couple seconds behind me. Sighting was difficult on the way in, but I came out of the water a second or two in front of the next swimmers.

There were far too few buoys on this course. After rounding the first corner, it was hundreds of meters before the next buoy. I actually had to stop and look up for a moment to see where I was going. There really needed to be some smaller intermediate buoys along the way. After the far turn-around, there were no buoys too guide us back to shore. Didn't like that at all. Just had to guess which landmark to sight on. Not cool.

Swim was pretty shallow and probably could have touched the bottom for most of the race. Also was crawling through the weeds as I came back to shore. Didn't like the swim course at all.

Nothing. This was perfect.

Since I pushed pretty hard on the swim, I was struggling to do much more than a slow plodding run to my bike. Accomplished my race goal, so I didn't rush things.

Wasn't going to push too hard on the bike. Just wanted to average over 20 mph, which I did. Passed by a fair number of people and didn't pass anyone. Kind of windy here and there

Nothing. I was satisfied with this part of my race considering what my training has been like this summer.

Didn't think to take my feet out of my shoes until it was almost too late. It wasn't very clear where I was supposed to enter the transition area as there were a couple different chutes (running, biking, finish) so I got off the bike too soon. Also didn't see my stuff right away. Transition still went fine, though, and actually 3rd fastest in my age group.

Look over the in/out area before the race.

Legs felt fine, but I had bad cramps in what felt like my diaphragm for the first mile and a half. Walked about half of that. Rest of the run was mediocre at best. It started to rain about the time I was able to run regularly and rained pretty hard on and off for the remainder of the run. Tried to run a little faster a few times, but that didn't work very well, so I just kept going.

Wish I knew what caused those cramps.

It was raining pretty good, so I cooled down pretty quick. Packed up the transition area and changed into dry clothes.


Lack of training, back problems, stomach cramps.


The swim course needs changing and needs more buoys. The run course needs to be better controlled so there aren't runners, and cyclists on the same part of road with cars going by as well. There wasn't any food right at the race finish, just water. About 30 minutes after I finished a free "meal" was served to participants, but it was pretty mediocre.

Glad I did this race, but I don't plan on doing it again.