Kansas City Triathlon - Sprint Distance - TriathlonSprint

First OWS! Got kicked in face near start and I threw me off, could not find my pace after that. Kept burping from swallowing water. I actually feel ok about this swim since I only started swimming 4 months ago.

More OWS practice, more time in water in general.

Had to put my shoes on before leaving my station which slowed me down a lot. The rest went pretty good. I did get the running leap onto my bike at the mounting line.

Need tri shoes!

Tore up the bike course, I slowed down only to go through some corners that had gravel. I am a strong climber and passed many people on the big hill. The people passing me were all on aero bikes and I was not. Hit 35 mph going down the long hill.

It would be nice to have an areo bike. I feel I was a little conservative on my pace.

This one went well other than not have enough space to quickly rack my bike.

Try and get more rack space for my bike

Run went ok. I found I had to pee after the first mile because I drank too much on my bike. This slowed me down a little. I have had longer runs at a faster pace but I think I slowed down with the gravel.

Not drink half a bottle of water on the bike.

Walked around a bit.


Nerves on the swim, learning my pace as I still had some gas left in the tank after the race.


Only thing I did not like was the organizers changed the bike route several times and shortened the swim from 750m to 500m and did not really do a good job at notifying anyone. Other than that it was well put together and a lot of fun.