Square Lake Triathlon - TriathlonLong Course

Haven't been doing a whole lot of swimming lately, so the plan was to take it easy, be smooth. Wasn't feeling real great at the start, but just settled in. There were 4 waves, so mine probably had about 60-70 people? Found open water, missed the front people and was ahead of everyone else, so on my own whole swim, no drafting.

Suck it up and catch the faster people to draft.

Run up quite a few stairs to get to bike. Was rushed pre-race, so stuff was kind of disorganized. Slow.

Be organized.

Fairly happy with the ride. Could have went harder, but stayed conservative as it was gonna be a hot run. I did drop my chain and it got tangled around my pedal going down a hill, so lost momentum and had to get off the bike to fix it. Also, I got pretty upset about mile 35 when a pack of 15-20 riders went by me, wheel on wheel. I recognized about 10 of them, as I had already passed them earlier. Eventually, when they fell off the draft pack, I re-passed a few of them. Simple concept, don't draft if it's a non-drafting race. Shouldn't matter if there's no marshall's enforcing it. Unless the race was draft legal, but everyone told me it wasn't. Shame.

Not drop chain, maybe take in some more fluids.

Put shoes and socks on...well, one sock went on. Had to take other shoe off to put sock back on.

organization.

The run went ok until about mile 8. Running is my weakest of the three and I was going to try between 8-8:30 pace for first few miles, since it was hilly and then possibly knock it up a notch, or hold steady. Held steady until about miles 6-7 and started to slow a bit. Miles 8-13 were bad. Stopped at all the aid stations, literally, to take in water, gatorade and pour more water on my head. Stomach was sloshing around. Was very hot. Walked too much.

Figure out how to hydrate better. Possibly a fuel belt to take in more liquids prior to the aid station rather than all at once. Need to keep cool and hydrated.

Went and sat in the lake.


Mental state on the run; hydration. Too many beers earlier in the week.


Great lake to swim in, fun bike course (save for the cheating drafters); run course would have been fine with some cloud cover, cooler day and me sucking it up.