West Kennebunk Fire Olympic Tri - TriathlonOlympic

I'm not fond of ocean swims based on my experiences so far but this was by far the best of the three. There were definitely places where there should have been more buoys marking the course along the long segment. It's tough to see smaller buoys in rolling ocean conditions anyway and then to get them spaced too far apart makes for challenging navigation.

Take it out a little harder to try and catch someone to draft off of.
Swim in freshwater where I seem to be quite a bit faster.

good transition. 21/105 overall and 1/6 age group.

nothing- I don't putz but I don't rush transitions either

This ride was probably 4 minutes give or take slower than it would have been if I had been riding the correct bike. But that bike is in pieces in the shop even though I was supposed to have gotten it back on Saturday. I found out less than 24 hrs before that I would need to race my old Quintana Roo that was put back together haphazardly w/ no fitting of it and too long of stem I think. Since I was so streched out, I tried moving the seat on the rails. Apparently I didn't tighten the holder bolt back down enough because it came loose on the really rough section of Harrisecket Rd. It slid, I stopped and tried to even it back out, it slid again so I did the next 20 miles w/ the nose of the saddle at a 20 degree up angle. It was not conducive to aero riding considering the saddle is borderline comfortable on the best of days and the wierd angle changed it so I could feel it in my glutes. So I was worried about actually hurting myself on a stupid training day race and I didn't push the bike- ergo could have been faster by quite a bit.

ride a bike that fits, maybe reef on the bolt to make sure it's tight after trying to adjust it so it fit a little better

5/6 age group, 94/102 overall. I think I need to work on getting my shoes and socks on faster. And maybe not stop to have a conversation w/ a spectating classmate while doing it?

it was fairly hot for ME, some little rolling hills, reasonable amount of shade, felt much better after going pee in the porta pottie that someone had at the end of their drive just before mile 3(the race organization didn't have any out on the course)

pee sooner?

waited the 2 minutes for my training partner to finish, downed 1 full bottle of water, walked around, got the blueberry pancakes w/ a 2nd bottle of water, was told awards would be when everyone finished so took the stuff back to the car and found out we had basically missed awards even though we got back AS the last person was finishing. Felt really bad for her because they had everything tore down and it wasn't even really recognizable as the finish anymore and she was only a touch over 4 hours.


mechanical issue number 2 at an oly this year- maybe this is a way to get back at me for underestimating the oly distance?

this was a training day- I did my full complement of workouts during the week prior including riding a chunk the day before

need to work on pushing harder running to get faster at running rather than putzing along at a comfortable pace


The safety concerns on the bike course and the way they handled 'later' finishers rubbed me wrong. They also only had Gatorade and water available on the course and I think that gels or something should be available for longer events like this.