Oshkosh Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

This was the first time being in the elite wave and I was really worried about getting smoked really badly or holding up other people. When the signal was sounder, I hung out kinda in the back until I found a small opening where I jumped in and started swimming. After about 100m or so it thinned out and I was mostly by myself the whole way. I just concentrated on breathing and stoke and pounded it out. This was the most comfortable Ive been on a OWS to date! I could have swam harder, but I paced myself and finished with a decent time thats about normal for me.

Push myself a little and swim harder.

As I was getting out of the water, I took my cap and googles off and took my wetsuit down to the waist. Ran across to T1 and started to peel off the rest of the wetsuit. My feet got stuck a little, but thats minor. Grabbed the rest of my stuff and ran out with my bike. When I was getting ready to mount, I was running way to fast to jump over the bike, but I did it anyways and almost biffed it. Caught myself and continued on.

Maybe cut off about an inch off the bottom of the wetsuit. Slow down a hair before jumping on the bike.

As soon as I got up to speed I took a shot of Gu from my flask. For the rest of the ride I had a bottle with Perpetuem in it and a bottle of water - both of which I completely drank. Started out good, but after a while I couldnt get comfortable at all and I was almost continually adjusting my positioning on the bike. 4 or 5 guys passed me, but that was about all. I didnt really feel "mentally" into the ride either. But, I did it faster than when I did a round on the wednesday before, so Im happy with that. All in all a good ride, but I feel that I couldve gone faster.

Get into it more and get a more comfortable position. Usually the comfort part isnt a problem, but this race it was.

About .5 mi before T2, the guy in front of me started unstrapping his shoes. Since I was kinda unsure about where the ride was ending (but I knew it was coming very soon) I did the same and unstrapped my shoes and took em out. Well, I rode for about .25 mi with my feet on top of my shoes. When I was coming in to T2, I was flyin and I hopped off my bike and started to run with it. My bike was bouncing all over the place since the entrace was on grass, but I got control and all was good. Racked my bike, got some grass off my feet, slid on my socks and shoes and took off my hat on the head and race belt in my hand. On exit, there was water there so I walked through that area, double fisted two cups and took off.

Know exactly where the bike ends and not unstrap early.

I was feelin really good after the bike and took off. Almost right out of the transition I passed the people, except for maybe 1, that passed me on the bike. After that, nobody passed me on the run. I was maintaining about a 6:20 pace until mi 4 or so when my legs started to turn to rubber and my mouth was getting dry. I kept pushing and until the near end, where I gave it a kick to finish.

Drink more on the run.

Stretched a little. Went back in the lake to cool and clean myself off a little. I also did a short swim out a little bit and back for warm down.


Comfort in the saddle on the bike. Other than that, I pretty much did what I could. Oh yeah, as always - work on swim. Looking at my placings in overall and AG for each split, it shows immensely that I need to work on that. But even the swim was good for me today.


Overall a very good race. HR was high thoughout the race, but that probably stemmed off of whatever was going on with me this past week.

The race was well organized and ran very good. They could have used some security around the transition area though. Nice course. Ill be back next year!