Clear Lake International Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Goal was to finish swim feelin good and no cramps.I stayed slow and steady. 40+ were in 2nd wave (after elites). One minute between waves. Breathing on left side doesn't help navigation with buoys on right plus I drift to left. I sighted every 10, then every 8 and still drifted left, sometimes had to breast stroke a little to get squared away. The biggest tactic for me to not think about distance was counting strokes to keep focused on form. Being slow I was over taken by a rainbow of wave caps...didn't matter. I finished with a big smile despite cuts on fingers, knee, toe from shallow start, hit rocks/shell several times.

Keep working to improve efficiency, sighting, bilateral breathing and R side breathing.

T1 no issues. I think I was only bike on rack after swim. Plenty of room, no congestion.

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Ride was going well, I set Garmin for cadence and HR, did not care about speed. Goal HR 145-150. Had to back off for first couple miles to get HR down. Around mile 16 I saw something shiny on road missed it with front wheel but not back. BOOM! no question what happened, must have been a piece of metal. Gash was large so I used a piece of duct tape for a boot. I had some trouble getting wheel back on, didn't realize Cervelo had rear dropouts. Back on road and kept goal HR till finish.

Definitely should have practiced rear wheel changes.

No results for T2, saw same thing in some other age group brackets.Well the bike rack was full coming in, so full there was no space to rack so I had to move 2 bikes. Getting Garmin off bike mount and onto wrist strap was good. Grabbed cup of water on way out. 2-3 minutes is my guess.

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Unknown what would happen so I started slow and steady first mile stopping only at each mile aid station for water/gatorade. Legs/hip felt pretty good but stomach was not handling gatorade or water by mile 2. Stomach was feelin full and rumblin. My HR was averaging 152, higher than I wanted but so was heat/humidity and a bright sun. Maybe higher HR kept me from processing fluids. I drank less and less rest of run. No issues with hip and was very pleased with this run despite GI problems.

Not sure about bloating issue. Bike nutrition, 48 oz, 300K felt fine.S-cap every hour for electrolytes.

Post race watermelon was the BEST with a big slice of pepperoni pizza. I felt pretty good after walking around about 5 minutes. Stomach settled down and I was able to drink a coke and bottled water without issues.


Keep on keepin on to improve swimming. I would have had a decent bike if not for flat. Very pleased with run considering heat/humidity.


I would definitely do it again.Thankful for all the blessings bestowed upon me to be physically able to race again. My last event was in April. Heard one swimmer saw a 4 foot alligator during his warmup just a 100 meters out. That might improve your swim time.