West Point Lake Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

For being my first tri, the time trial start was nice, I started towards the back due to a high race number, but started passing people in the beginning,I got bumped a couple of times by people out of control, but the only problem I had was the glare of the sun on the water after the final turn on trying to spot the buoys..

Just work on my training to get faster...

T1 went well,had a problem getting into one pedal after mounting bike..

Buy some bike shoes for triathlons..

Had a great bike ride to my standards, was able to pass a lot of people mainly on the hills, boy that training paid off here, got passed by one biker around mile 14... Overall went in wanting to average 18 mph and was able to do better, was able to get out of shoe in the last 1/4 mile to be ready for dismount..

Planned on going sock-less to save time, but felt my feet rubbing in my bike shoes, luckily I laid my socks out just in case, still feel like I made good time even with having to put socks on..

Take fuel belt with water when it this hot..

My goal for the first one was to average a ten minute mile,I came close but after the knee surgery I can't complain..

Cooled down under the water tent, had several bottles of water along with a banana, watermelon, and some cookies..(they were good!!) Did some slight stretching and waited on my friends to finish...


Just need to work on my stroke for the swim, need to do more run work where I can't cut some time here, most of the people that finished ahead of me had faster run times..


This was a good race to choose for my first triathlon, I will do it again and try to beat my time..( I will beat that time )