Papillion Mayor's Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

This was one of my worst swims ever. I never got a feel for the water and couldn't find my stroke. It was my first OWS without a wetsuit and I just couldn't get into it. I should have cut about 3-4 minutes off this swim if I had positioned myself better and swam my race.

I don't know what my problem was. I think it is all mental. The only thing to do is practice. I can swim a 8:30 in the pool, but haven't swam much in OW this year. And never swim without my wetsuit. Guess I need to practice practice practice. :)

Good transition. Didn't put on socks. This helped a bit. Good smooth transition for me.

Nothing. Just hurry more.

Good bike. I really pushed it and made up a lot of time from my poor swim. I was passing tons of people and was never permanently passed. There were several people that did catch me at one point or another, but I passed them back and left them in the dust.

I was a little worried about the congestion in the park, but people were good about staying right and allowing you to pass.

Nothing, I left it all on the course. By far my best segment.

This was a very fast transition. I was on the far side of transition to the run out, so this included the time running across transition.

Nothing

This was an o.k. run for me. First brick in almost 2 years. Didn't feel very good for the first mile, but was able to pick up the pace and really smoked the last mile (probably about 7 min pace). Wanted to finish sub 24, so failed there, but was generally happy with the run.

Do more bricks. My legs were really smoked coming off the bike and it took too long to recover.

Collapsed in the grass and had some drink. Then walked around and talked with the family.


Swim was awful. I probably could have won or taken second in my age group with even a decent swim. I've got some work to do there. It is all mental.


This was a good race, well organized and a bunch of great people. I would definitely do this race again.