Small Texan Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

This was a clockwise swim and I breathe to my left. I also tend to drift to the left quite a bit so I had a bad feeling about this. I stayed in the main pack going toward the first turn and tried to keep someone on my left at all times to avoid drifting out. It didn't work and I found myself constantly having to correct my direction. This cost me a lot of time as I swam much farther than I should have.

Sight better / more often

Felt a little sluggish coming out of the water & kind of went through my routine a bit slowly.

I didn't set up my pedals beforehand and they were out of position when I got on the bike which made my whole mount sloppy. Got going & took a gel shot right away. I was going pretty well until the halfway point when the harder hills kicked in. They had a water hand off at one turn so I decided to take a bottle as practice. Slowed a bit much but at least I didn't crash during the process. After that it just seemed to be never ending hills.

Ride more hills in training

Again I was a little slow coming off the bike & went through my transition a bit slow.

Run starts with a short steep uphill to the top of a dam. My pace was pretty good starting out. I started getting some stomach cramps during miles 2 and 3 and slowed down considerably. After the turn I was able to pick my pace up a bit and finished pretty strong. It was a hard run & quite a few people were walking. Run support was great with water, gatorade, and ice towels.

More running. I've had to limit my run training considerably due to achilles problems.

Drank lots of water & ate.


Swim sighting, hills, limited run training


This is a really challenging race & is good for racing with hills. A perfect tune up race for for me before Longhorn 70.3