Guelph Lake Weekend - Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Decent swim, really caught the wave before us, but that was because they must have had a lot of first timers and weaker swimmers. I'm purely BOP/MOP when it comes to the swim.

Transition was fine but I felt like I was starting to stitch on the run up from the water to the transition area = eating banana too close. This would haunt me later.

Nothing really.

The bike was the beginning of this disaster. I started to ride, looked down at the PM and couldn't figure out where my power was. I had nothing from the get go. At the end of the ride I had averaged 173 watts for the course with my HR in the 170's the whole way. I'd ridden it a week earlier and avg watts were 213. Plus the stitch further developed during the ride and I thought this would impact the run.

Don't know - there was just no power in the legs.

This is where I knew the run was going to be awful. I took just a few steps off the bike and my gut and side were in agony form the stitch. All I wanted to do was get out of transition and around the corner from the crowds to hide the pain on my face.

The run is my strength, so when you walk 1/2 the course and hobble along the other 1/2 you know your day is done. My stomach and side wouldn't settle down and I just shuffled along, except for when I walked. By km 4 I started to actually run a bit, but it felt awful. I just wanted the race to end, and was very happy when it did.

Don't eat the friggin banana before the start of the race!!!

Nothing to warm down.


Everything. I sound whiny, and maybe I am, but I always seem to manage a disaster of a race each year, and hopefully I got this one out of the way and rest will be better.


I like the course and the event, I just didn't have a good day. I'll have to decide if I race this one next year for redemption or do the Olympic.