The Austin Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Have lots of work to do after missing so much swimming time from my shoulder injury. I'm painfully slow.

SWIM MORE! Practice sighting.

The women kinda got screwed in transition and got stuck running with the bike both directions from and to the back of the transition stage. The older group you were in, you further back you were. BULLSH*T I tell ya lol I think I had to go close to 1/4 mile to get to where I could finally get on the bike!

Pay attention to where my rack is in comparison to the in/out entrances. I was caught off guard.

Bike was my best event at 18 mph. I think it's time to upgrade to a speedier model or do some upgrades to this one though.

Drive the course beforehand. I don't like suprises lol

Again, long "run" with the bike to the back of the transition area in some deep dirt. Not happy about that lol

Not sure, this one was kinda a blur lol

Very, very hot by the time I got to the run stage with the 1:05 delayed start for my wave. I struggled big time with the heat, should have brought my own water bottle so I could drink more. Had to walk quite a bit (1 min. at a time). Although, with all those walk breaks, I'm quite happy that I still did 11 min miles lol

Bring my own water so I don't have to rely on where a water stop is going to be.

Got a chair and sat in the shade with some fruit and the water bottle they handed us at the finish line.


HEAT! Just finishing up my first summer in Texas (from Seattle), so need to work on acclimating still. Need more training - specifically, the swimming and running. Been concentrating too much on the bike, but at least I saw results from that lol


Would definitely do it again - but hope for a cooler day lol Will post the age group ranks when they become available.