Cobourg Olympic Distance Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

From all the running at the start, when I got into the water, I couldn't breathe because of the cold and being out of breath, I tried to do an aqua jog (it never got deep enough that your face would be in the water jogging, tried back crawl, and finally just sucked it up and did front crawl. Every time while swimming, I would pass people and then they would pass me on the run along the beach. The run into transition was long on very soft sand = read crappy. If this was a true oly swim and it had been the temperature it was on Friday afternoon, I should have finished in around 26 minutes. I'm normally top 20% over all on the swim and top 10% female - obviously not my best performance, but I survived.

I don't know if there is anything I could have done differently except sucked it up earlier and put my face in more quickly - I might have finished a bit faster, but not significantly. I guess I will have to figure this out if I ever have another race like this one.

Other than the wetsuit being stuck on the heals the transition didn't go too badly T1 was fairly long and I got stuck behind some people dilly dallying getting out of transition. I thought there was only one rack before my bike, so that confused me a bit. There weren't as many bike left on the rack as there usually is when I'm in T1 :( Just looked at the resulta, and my T1 time, was actually 4th fastest in my age group, so I guess that isn't too bad.

make better note of where my bike is - I need to practice taking my wetsuit off when it is wet - it always get stuck.

I've done hills as big as the ones on this course, but there is nowhere around here that I can practice hill after hill after hill like that. It was a tough course. There were also a lot of corners that you had to break for because they would be at the bottom of big hills, or people would pass me going up hill and then ride in the centre of the road going downhill, but being the middle so I couldn't pass them without a centre line violation. Annoying. I am very disappointed in this ride, I've been averaging close to 28 km per hour on my long rides recently, and doing interval work averaging close to 30 km (with rest intervals), I thought I would be able to do a lot better than this, but the hills killed me. I have had a cold the last week and a half and I think that it is still affecting me. By partway through the bike course I knew I couldn't expect great things on the run course.

Move to northumberland county so I can train in those hills?

When I got back to t2, people had put there bikes in completiely the wront spots so there was nowhere to put my bike. I wish people paid better attention to this. I figured something out, but probably wasted a few second (ha ha! not that seconds matter to me in this race at all!) looking for a spot to put my bike. As I was taking off my bike shoes and putting on my running shoes, I heard "There's Aunt Laura!" I look up, and my brother in law was holding my nephew Eddie and pointing at me. After I was ready to go, I ran over to them and talked to my sister for a few seconds, told her how long the run would take me, gave high fives to my neice and nephew (lots of high fives for Sally) and then went to start the run. So although my T2 times was slow, I know I could have been a lot faster.

Nothing except get off the bike quicker, I should probably have been back to t2 faster than the girls who messed up my racking area. (mostly by being way faster on the swim, but I also think I could have been quite a bit faster on the bike - and placed better in my age group on a flatter ride.)

Hot. Heart rate too high. I carried a bottle of eload with me which I think was a smart idea, but I got too hot and my heart rate was too high from the get go. It felt like I was running too slow. My legs had it in them to run faster, but my lungs couldn't handle it.

It was lots of fun though having my sister and her family at the finish line cheering me in :)

Not sure what I could have done differently, except perhaps not be sick. I took a few 1 minute walk breaks in the second half (3?) to help control my heart rate, but to be honest, I probabaly could have skipped those. I thought for sure I would be capable of a 55 minute 10 k. guess not yesterday.

All this just wants me to get in another oly tri this year. There is one in 4 weeks. I think I will talk to my coach next week and see what he thinks. I think I could for sure have got into the 2:50 range with a course better suited to me and without the lingering effects of a cold.

Walk to find my sister, chat with her for a bit. Lisa finished 2nd over all so we had to wait around for the awards ceremony. I won a pair of sunglasses at in the door prixes.


Messed up swim and very cold water (if it had just been one of the two, my swim time would have been faster)

Way hilly bike ride

Hot run

Getting over a cold - HR was too high throughout the race given the effort I was giving.


Even though I did a half IM a little over a month ago, and I've been keeping up my biking (regularly 60 km with more quality), the bike was too hard for me to do well. I'm an athena, the hills take a bigger toll on me, and I was un prepared for the relentless up and down. I don't have anywhere to practice those kind of hills.