Lake Royale Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

This being my first Triathlon, I was very nervous waiting in that water for the start. I was focused on the first bouy and kept telling myself don't start aggressive. After the first bouy I felt very good. I kept passing a couple of people and wasn't feeling tired. I was sighting every couple strokes and for the first time kept a very straight navigation in open water. As I reached the finish and saw the big finish sign I new this was it and had to give it my all.

Get lessons to improve my stroke and technique. I have no previous lessons on proper form. That could probably make me quicker.

Came out of the water taking off the top half of the wetsuit. As I reached my area I began to take off the rest of the suit. I struggled a lot with the heels and getting the left side over the timing chip. I sat down on the floor to put on my socks and bikes shoes. Thats probably a no no. Put on my helmet and grabbed my bike to start running out. As i take 3 steps leaving my area, I see that ppl had on their bib belt on. I thought "crap, do I need it on for the bike?"...so I went back to get the belt (cost me a couple seconds). Ran all the way to the bike mount and straddled my baby and clipped on perfectly the first attempt. Climbed the hill at the mounting start and began my ride.

More practice removing the wetsuit. Asking beforehand what I need to have when biking, bib or no bib? For my next races I will train with no socks and learn to do the running+jump mount.

I had a big scare when I started my ride. As I start leaving the transition area I start to hear a sound coming from my front wheel. I bend down to get a little closer to what seemed to be air leaking out of the tire. I started to panic and thought my race was over. I take a closer look to see that the bib # sticker from my helmet fell into the fork area touching the tire as I rode. I was so relieved, I grabbed the sticker and put it in my tri shorts pocket. Other than that I felt like i ripped the bike course. THe beginning was definitely hilly and tough to climb but I kept telling myself throughout the entire ride that this was it and all my training was for this race, so I better haul ass! I didn't hold back. I kept passing multiple people. There were a few that passed me, they were those bad-ass triathletes with their pointy helmets, whooosh-whoosh like sound coming from behind on their $$$ tri bikes (can't wait to be at that level).

Definitely climb more in my training. Possibly upgrade to a true tri bike.

Coming into the transition area I felt great. I got to the dismount line, unclipped and ran to my area. I think this T2 time was pretty fast for me. Running shoes were on and I jetted out to the course

not much, I felt I handled this one pretty well.

My weakest discipline! The hills were nasty for me. I just had to keep a very easy pace. People kept passing me left and right, but I just kept my easy pace. Throughout the whole run I power walked about 4 times (10sec each) and almost everyone who passed me gave me encouraging words. My favorite one was...with about a mile left in the course and as I startup up again after my last power walk, I hear somebody behind me coming fast, so I just turn to see and it's a very pretty women, gaining fast. As she passes me (leaving me in the dust) she yells out "C'MON CATCH ME!". I have to say those words were very motivating ;). Even though I couldn't catch her I did pick it up from there. I definitely finished strong!

Train more, a lot more!

not much, met Scottie and my co-worker Steph and gave them a run down of my whole experience. Oh and that was while I downed like 4 hot dogs :)


Only having about 2 months of training! Next season is a different story. 1/2 IM here I come!


It was my first. I enjoyed it very much. Thought everything was well prepared and managed.