Rock Hall International Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

A little slow for me. Off course as usual. Lost my goggles jumping in for the start. No time to double back, but swimming w/o the goggles was NOT the reason I was off course. I just always am. Legs felt weird and heavy and slow. Yes in the swim. Not sure what was going on.

Not lose my goggles. Stay on course.

I NEED TRI SHORTS. Changing my cloths in each transition is sucking up TONS of time. And to remember to pack towels. Changing cloths might not have been so much of a struggle if I'd had a towel to dry off w/.

Just get the tri shorts, and a race belt. Really this is slow, but about average for me. Just tons of room for improvement here.

I need to actually bike before races. Even just a litte. Now that my office has moved I need to actually get on bike commuting the way that I said I would.

Train more for the bike. It's about average for me, but again tons of room for improvement here. Drink more water.

WIPE OUT. the usual unclip right/lean left right at the line. Seems if I manage to screw up any MORE of these tiny little details they'll be forcibly moving me to the novice category even though it's not my frist race.

Not wipe out, get tri shorts.

Trained the run all winter, even ran a half marathon. Granted I dropped off a LOT of running when I added swimming; but something was wrong here. By the end I had stopped sweating, was cold, and had goosebumps. Started off about normal for me, which is ALWAYS slow the 1st mile. Then instead of picking it up, I fell even slower for mi 2&3. Then it started to fall apart even worse after that. The final mile was even walk/run.

Drink more on the bike. Be more diligent 2-3 days ahead of time. I was good the day before, but had been dehydrated most of the week. I guess you really can't catch up!

Found shade and water. Drank regular sugar gatorade and a regular coke. After finishing the water and sitting in the shade I finally felt better after about 10 min. I had even had some sick to my stomach feeling I haven't gotten running since I first started!


Dehydrated I think, but hard to believe it was THAT much of a factor. I drank at every water stop, and carried a 500ml bottle w/ me for between stops.


Setup does great races! My problems were of my own making (forgetting stuff, losing stuff, whatever was going on w/ that run). The course was well marked, and mostly as advertised. I even heard AFTER the race that a bunch of volunteers hadn't showed up, but it NEVER affected the race. I didn't notice anything off while racing.