University of Alberta Spring Thaw - TriathlonSprint

Pool swim that was seeded on estimated swim time...the two people who went ahead of me way over-estimated their swim times...I lapped one guy and nearly caught up to the other.

I was pretty dehydrated by the time I hit the water from sitting around in the hot pool all morning...not optimal. Drink more? Probably couldn't have done a whole lot more other than gone faster...haha

Time included in bike time. It was a pretty far run with the bike and the wind kept knocking my bike off a bit...saw one guy carrying his bike rather than have the wind throw it around while he was running.

Harder than it should have been. Need to switch out my cassette for IMLP for sure...Nasty hill with nasty headwind 4x through. Didn't go very well in my opinion.

Time included in bike time. Got back to transition and the people around me had crowded my bike...since I was in the last heat everyone was back...

Run went alright...just longer than I had anticipated because the course was incorrectly measured. Oh well.

Walked around, massage with the stick and stretching.


Just not used to the severity of hill that is Emily Murphy...afterwards everyone was talking about how they wished they had another gear to dump. The wind has been ridiculous out here so that didn't help. Lost my nerve a bit on the bike due to the roughness of the course...I should have taken a full ride of the loop...but it is a busy area of town and I don't feel all that comfortable riding it by myself. The first loop was basically me surveying to make sure I knew where all the big potholes were.

Bit bummed I didn't podium :(


Bummed I didn't podium. Didn't perform as well as I would have liked. Fatigue from training volume maybe. First race of the weekend. Swim went fine...but the bike and run...not so much. And that is what I have been focusing on for the past 2 months...:(