Hy-Vee Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Entered the water with "stay relaxed" in my mind especially for the first half of the swim. Goggles became foggy about a third of the way through. Because of the fast time trial start, I was unable to defog my goggles appropriately. Had to stop and defog once which only lasted a few minutes before fogging back up. Still was able to sight OK. Got hot from the wetsuit and borderline water temp. Contemplated not wearing one, but didn't want to lose any advantage.

Try to appropriately defog goggles prior to swim start.

Long T1. Had trouble getting wetsuit off of legs. I've never had that problem. Maybe a little taxed from running up from the beach. Probably cost me a minute. Had to sit down to remove suit. Rest of transition went OK.

Maybe apply some body glide over ankles and feet. Don't know, never had a problem getting suit off before.

Course was crowded. Too many relay teams. Most seemed like they were out for a Sunday stroll rather than a race. A lot of novice riders riding 2 and 3 wide taking up the whole road. Did a lot of maneuvering around, and yelling at them. Had to pee really bad too. Thought I could hold it until I got into T2 which I did.

Didn't drink enough. I only took one bike bottle with red bull and water and didn't finish it.

Almost crashed coming into transition as another rider cut in front of me at the dismount line forcing me over before I could unclip my left foot. Still had to pee, but felt I could hold it until I got done with the run. I didn't want to take up time since I had such a bad T1. Thought I would pee on the run if needed.

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Felt good off the bike. Cadence was good and again conscious about negative splitting the run. Took it easy for the first 2 miles before picking up the pace a little. Carried my own water in small bottle, used aid stations for cooling. Took gatorade at mile 4 and 5 to drink because I was unable to drink all of my red bull on the bike and GenUcan was drank too early before race start.

Not sure at this point.

Walk about the finish area and got some fruit and chocolate milk. Waited under a shade tree for my wife to finish which wasn't long.


Felt bad for the 3 days leading up to the race. Kids and wife all had a cold. I had a headache and body aches leading up to the race. Race morning I really didn't care if I raced or not. I did improve my overall time by 10 minutes over last year, which is pretty good and met my goal of going sub 2:30. I would say probably my attitude. It wasn't the best, and that's really important.


Great race. Very well supported and very organized. However, I must say this year was very crowded given the amount of relay teams allowed to participate. I hope they put a lower cap on it next year.