St. Anthony's Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

The swim was really good for the conditions. It was very choppy with 2-3 foot waves coming in at us as we started. I was one of the first into the water in my wave and sprinted the first 50 yards to get out of the group of 150 or so. I started passing people from the previous wave by the first buoy. Some waves were hard to predict (maybe from boats?) so I did swallow some water. Backstroked around the turn buoys which gave me an extra boost of speed. On the way in a girl from my age group kept running into me and trying to swim between me and another girl. It was very annoying and slowed me down for a little bit until she finally dropped off. Swim finish was good and strong, it was nice they had volunteers to help catch us at the stairs and bring us in.

Have the power to calm the wind and waves. And get some tri-bike shoes instead of three strap road shoes.

T1 was fairly smooth. I had a bit of trouble standing on one leg after the swim, a little off balance, but I got up and moving fairly quickly.

Not have a water tub for my feet, just use a spray bottle because I stepped on the side of it and soaked my shoes.

The bike course was really good, offering some hills and a lot of turns. It was windy, and all of the direction changes made it alternately a tail,head or cross-wind, and at times it was very gusty, particularly in the urban parts of the ride. I pulled off some killer turns in my aero bars, and managed to keep up a good speed given the wind.

This transition was much better and had of been faster if I hadn't of needed to take some ibuprofen for the knee.

The run started out very slow, I don't know if I didn't have enough fluid or too much on the bike. I picked up the pace after two miles. The water stations did not seem to be every mile, but maybe they were and it justt felt longer. I was estatctic at the turn around (the most enthusiastic volunteer was there), and tried to pick it up even more after that. The last two miles I started feeling really ill, like I was going to throw-up and I just couldn't cool down. But finally the finish was there and I was sprinting in.

Not get rolled on by a horse and then train on a injured knee. I could tell that the three weeks without a solid run had hurt my fitness in this area.

Walked around for 20 minutes, drank the bottle of endurance gatorade I was given, post-race massage and then food (almost too late, I nearly passed out). Walking and not sitting for too long seemed to help as well.


The knee.


I am coming back next year and placing in my age group!