California International Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

This was my best OWS to date. With that said, I was feeling every bit of yesterday's 3,000m swim training. Right now I am participating in the half ironman training through Golden Gate Triathlon, and the coach instructed me to treat today as though it were training, only.

I didn't taper, so, maybe I'd consider a small taper in the future.

I thought this transition was much longer.

The legs were also feeling yesterday's run.

Nothing. This was merely a training ride, otherwise I would have tapered.

I did not realize my shoe laces were not laced through the eyelets on my left shoe, so I spent a little time fixing it. Other than that, I'm a little surprised this transition was 1:48 as it felt faster than that.

Double check my shoe laces. Tried Yanks already but did not like them.

I really hate running on gravel. It never fails; I step on top of every sharp rock on the entire route, and my foot always lands with the point of the rock jamming in between the joints in my foot. I'm glad I wore trail shoes. Overall, this was a good run, and i felt like I kept my pace fairly even, which was my goal. Stopped at the BMX track to use the restroom on the first loop; thank God there was a porta-john because I had to go so bad after the bike that running 6.2 miles without a bathroom would have been hell.

Nothing. My plan was to maintain a steady pace.

stretched. Grabbed a Muscle Milk and some water. Then, walked around for a while, packed up the car, and finally drove home.


I approached this race as merely OWS practice with a bike/run brick. So, I was not out here to set a PR today.


A big improvement over last year.