Pleasant Prairie Triathlon - International Race - TriathlonOlympic

Felt I would do a lot better. Been swimming a lot this year and I usually do well with OWS. This race, I got smacked 2x in the head almost immediately and then my wave caugth the tail end of at least 2 waves before us. It was crowded so on the straitaway, I decided to get out of traffic. twice I found myself out by myself and had to stop and re-sight the buoys. The final turn was also the turn for the sprint race so that got a little tricky.

Better sighting. I probably swam 100 yards total off-course, so that's almost 2 minutes.

Just not fast with these, although I had a goal to be out of there in 4 minutes or less. Had no issues, just slow.

Practice

This is a good bike for me. I did 18.8 at a sprint 2 weeks ago and was happy to hold this pace over the 25 miles. Getting much strongeron the bike. Had a Gu about 5 miles in as I felt a little low on power. Drank quite a bit. It was not hot, but I knew the run was going to be unshaded, so I made a conscious effort to drink on the bike. Stood up on one of the hills, more to just stretch my legs and rear.

Just keep practicing. I am happy with this time.

Pretty good time for me considering the size of the transistion area.

Nothing

Felt good off the bike. It started to get hot just becuase we were out on the highway with no shade. Was running 9:00 miles the first 2 miles, which is a good race pace for me. Then I started to slow down. No water stations beyween miles 2 and 4 and I could have used some. Really started to drag by mile 4, got some water but that did not help. By Mile 5, I was at 9:40 pace for the previous mile. Just hung on to the end.

More bricks? I felt great off the bike but faded at the end. It's my first oly so I definately got some lessones learned.

Got a cold towel and some Gatorade. Walked around as my quads felt really tight. Stretched a bit, found some shade and got another Gatorade. Finally felt like eating so I had some bagels. ANother water and I was fine.


More training and start learning about proper nutrition.


Well run race. Plenty of volunteers and everyhting went off on time. Course was well marked. Could have used another water station on the run. Most likely do this race again.