Fairlee Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Since a HIM on June 18th where I crashed on the bike I haven't done a lot of swimming. I took two weeks off to heal my road rash, and then I've only gotten in about four swims since then. My focus has been on marathon training.

Even so, I was expecting a time in the 25-26 min range. This swim was definitely a bit longer than a regular olympic swim distance. The 10th best swim time was around 24 minutes.

I actually felt pretty good on the swim, holding a steady pace. I didn't want this race to impact my marathon training, so I went at around 80-90%.

Get in more swims, including OWS. Over the next month leading up to AG Natl's I'm planning on at least 8,000 yards/week.

There was around a 300-400 yard run from the lake back to transition. Again, I wasn't aiming to kill myself and ran at a decent clip.

My plan for the bike was to go at HIM pace, around 270 watts. I came in at only 263 watts. The course was a little hillier than expected based on the course description, but pretty nice and very scenic in the middle of VT.

I didn't get passed by anyone and was able to catch a lot of people from earlier waves or faster swimmers from my wave. Pretty happy with the performance based on not going all that hard.

I could have gone around 300 watts, but that would have impacted my running this week, so overall happy.

Decent transition

Like on the bike, my goal was to go at HIM intensity, so as to not negatively impact my training this week.

I only got passed by one other person and I ended up passing around 10 others. Kept my pace under check, holding back a bit.

My goal for AG Natl's is to be in the 39 min range for the 10k run, and with a bit of a taper, that should be doable.

I ran about 53 miles this past week, including 20 mile and 14 mile runs, so my legs weren't ready to go all out in this race.

I still was 15th overall in the run.

Nothing, really.

Got a few drinks and some cool towels and talked with a few other racers.


As said earlier, my plan was to go at HIM intensity. I have a 17 mile run scheduled for tomorrow. If I went all out in this race my marathon training would have been impacted.


This was the first year of this race, and I signed up two weeks before the race to get in a race between the HIM I did in June and AG Natl's in August. Overall, it went well even if I didn't go all out. I feel that I'll do quite well at AG Natl's in August of I add a little taper into my marathon plan.