Rock Gap International Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

It too until at least 500-600yds for me to get in the groove of swimming. I was trying to follow another girl and that caused me to go off course a bit. Around the halfway mark I started getting hot but sucked it up and decided to push the pace. This swim seem to take forever, I kept looking at the bouys and thought holy crap I'm not done yet. I did pass the some of the men who started 2 min. earlier.


This was one of my slowest times every swimming so not sure what is going on. Coming out of the water I felt ok but now looking at the time I'm not really happy with it.

I'm actually really surpried with this time, I sort of jogged up to the bike and it took forever to get the wetsuit off. At one point I just decided to take my time and not rush it with knowing the bike was coming up.

The first couple of miles has some decent incline, with driving the course the day before I knew I was going to push hard on the downhills to make up for the up hills. Around mile 8 you turn onto a country road that wasn't the best pavement it was also around the same time it started to rain a bit. Got a little scary as I was trying to bomb the downhills and it was pretty slick. Around mile 15 it was a flat section but my legs didn't have anything I was only going 10mph and knew I was done in regards to my time I wanted. Mentally this was a low point knowing the HILL was coming up and I didn't know how was I going to make it up the HILL if I couldn't go on a flat, not sure what was going on I had felt good even on the other hills I knew I was slow but this was bad. Mile 16ish started the 3 mile climb at 6.5%, I started up it and started chanting to myself, I've counted before but that wasn't going to work this time. Had a couple phrases one for the left leg and one for the right leg this actually helped alot just move up down up down. Finally made it up the damn HILL, I bombed down hitting 37mph at one point if I felt braver could have gone faster. Had to start hitting the breaks since the turn towards the park was coming up. Coming into the park was a little hectic they coned off a couple feet for the bikes but cars were driving almost hit a major pot hole because a car had just stopped.


Train more, I haven't been on the bike much yet. I'm just happy I made it up the HILL without stopping.

Should have used my road bike it is much better at climbing.

First 1/2 mile was a incline over the highway than began the downhill, down hills can be tougher on the legs just learned that one from the trail race, I tried to push it but legs were beat from going down, down and down again. It evened out a bit right before the turn around at mile 3 yippee we get to go back the way we came, uphill, around mile 4 we turned off and I knew the monster hill was coming up at mile 4.5 pretty much everyone walked this, it was about a 7% uphill for at least .5 miles. We turned off onto a trail at mile 5ish which was also uphill, really! and rocky, loose rocks I decided to walk this section afraid my legs wouldn't pick up and I'd either twist my ankle or fall on my ass, continued on the trail until around mile 5.5 a ended on the park road and finished.

Train more,couldn't do much more considering the bike.

I felt fine throughout the race thankfully it was overcast but as soon as I stopped I got dizzy. I think between not drinking a lot on the bike and the run course only had water caused it. I was able to get ice cream afterwards which was needed. Stayed for the awards.


Not get stomach virus the week of the race. Train more.


I like the smaller races but they did seem a bit disorganized especially the day before. I went to get my packet pickup and was just handed the bag and a t-shirt, no explanation about the wrist band, where to rack the bike, course maps weren't ready. If this had been my first tri I would have been worried and confused. Overall, I'm glad I did the race and will do it again some day to prove I can get better on those hills.