St. Anthony's Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

The course was very very choppy, as I understand it the race officials modified the course for the later waves because of this. I think they cut off 500 meters but still gave them credit for swimming the whole distance - skews the results a bit, oh well.

I was fairly happy with my swim actually. This was my first open water swim with no wet suit, and my first Olympic race - so I can't complain.

Good T1 for me, a little more disoriented coming out of the water than I thought I would be. Thank goodness there were volunteers there for us to grab on to while climbing up the steep stairs out of the water. I still can't get over how disoriented your body is after 30+ mins of swimming, it's like my body is telling me "NO! I don't want to run! I'm going to mess with our equilibrium because you're making us do this!"

At transition, I chatted a few moments with the guy next to me, it was his first race and was a little confused. I gave him as many tips as I knew then gave him my water to rinse off his feet - they were covered in mud and sand, wished him luck and I took off.

Nothing as of now.

Saw a horrible crash, a girl went to move to her left to pass, her front wheel met the back wheel of the guy to her left. She lost the battle and went down hard. I talked to someone who saw her after the race and said she was in bad shape. I feel bad for her, hope she recovers quickly. I was actually thinking of her for the next few miles - that was the first wreck I've ever seen. That's why I always say "on your left" even if we're the only two people around.

Around mile 3 I took a drink from my only water bottle, tried to put it back in it's cage and missed, damn no more water. Dehydration was going to set in soon.

My time was okay, considering the amount of training I put into this race - an average 18.1 mph is pretty good. I need more training on the bike though. It's starting to turn out that swimming is my best leg - I was always worried that would be my worst.

Not much to say here. Stopped, got off bike and ran to my area. Put on socks and shoes and went for the run

One day, not now or in the near future - learn how to dismount with shoes still attached.

This was where it went all downhill for me, however it was a fun run, everyone was having a good time, laughing and chatting. Quite a few of the families that lived on the run course were out watching, their kids armed with a garden hose would spray you down if requested. I got ALL of them. There was even the "redneck team" wearing long wigs, hats and helmets on the run offering bloody mary's and tequila shots. I was tempted since my run was shot anyway but turned it down

I wish I could blame this poor run performance on dehydration but I can't. I know that had something to do with it, but my lack of preparation was 90% to blame.

train, train, train.

Drank a lot of water and Gatorade, then off to the beer tent for 2 mich ultra's. Two slices of cheese pizza and about 10 strawberries.


In retrospect I realize that I was not really ready for this race at all. Really only got into real tri training about 3 months ago, next time I will do better.


Great race, I will be back next year for sure.