Saint Paul Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Swim went pretty well. I caught a guys toes after the first turn and stayed on them for the majority of the second loop. I was really hot out there in the sleevless suit and pulled down the neck several times to get a swish of fresh water to help with some temporary relief.

11th OA

Initially I think my PT was picking up the guy's in front of me because I couldn't get an instant read and my mph etc was being all wonky. I rescanned for devices with the Gamin and everything started working as expected. My Garmin data is a bit corrupted though because of this.

I averaged about 240W for the entire ride which is just right given my TT numbers from throughout the year.

Felt pretty hard to settle into a good rhythm for the first half of the first out and back segment. But, my HR eventually dropped and I got my cadence and gearing worked out to have a generally solid and smooth ride.

Try to get my HR under control sooner so I can move into a more aggressive pace earlier in the ride. Probably need to get more aggressive swim-bike bricks in to better prepare for that dynamic.

Need to get faster. If I choose to focus on Oly training next summer then I will definitely be doing the majority of my training as power-based interval sessions pushing FTP up as high as possible.

So, guy in front of me hears, "dismout at the line," 50 yards from the line and stops in the middle of the 3ft wide lane, blocking and gets off his bike. Awesome, I almost stop and mash the peddles to get myself to the dismount line and do an "almost" flying dismount.

Then, I haul into the transition area and loose where my spot is! run to the end of the row and turn around and s l o w l y go back looking for my spot. Find it, rack the bike, on with the zoots and hat and number belt and bolt out of transition.

Mark spot with balloon or something? My plan to look for the "black duffel bag" seems to be a failure;)

Hammered this puppy. As long as I can run mad or annoyed I'm GTG. And, on really crowded courses it's easy to run annoyed when people go 2-3 abreast on the sidewalk blocking passing lanes:) But seriously, I had a pretty awesome run today. It was the 3rd fastest 10K I have ever ran and I haven't really done any speedwork for the last 2 months or so, just LONG runs and 7-10 mile tempos + short transition runs.

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Oh, to top off a wonderful day, as I'm sitting with Jeff (@jvanis) at the awards and the last prize the Gear West gear bag was up for grabs and they called out "4 9 4" I look at my arm and remember that I'm 493... Sweet I ran up there and collected my swag. Way cool day and it was a pretty much unplanned event! Thanks to Dan (@silentcs42) for convincing me to do it!!!