Chicago Triathlon - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

Had a bad panic type attack at the beginning. I tried to seed myself in the back and start slowly, but I still couldn't catch my breath and had to hang on the rope. I got going only to have to stop two more times. Finally, just after the turn around I was able to breast stroke back to the start area and then front crawled to the end.

I would try to get in the water first and warm-up.

I thought it was a good T1 for me. This was only my second triathlon so I don't have much to compare it with other than a 10 minute T1 at Steelhead.

The wind was pretty strong heading north but it was a great tailwind heading south. I think it balanced out in the end.

I hit my goal on the run leg. I ran the whole way at a steady pace.

Keep training to get my speed up.

Panic for the first 450 meters or so. Breast stroke for another 500 meters before I could finally crawl the rest of the swim.


I thought there were too many participants. By having the Sprint start first and then the Int'l, it took over two hours until my wave started. Given that I had to get there early for transition, I spent far more time waiting around for the race to start than I actually spent racing.

I'd like to see them split up the race and do the Sprint and Super-Sprint on Saturday and the Intl on Sunday.