Brewhouse Triathlon - Long Course - TriathlonOlympic

I noticed someone right next to me the first few hundred yards. Usually no on keeps up with me initially, so i decided to drop in behind him and let him do all the work. It turns out it was Oscar Godoi, who is a very good swimmer. My arms were pretty tired from Point to la pointe (swim race) the day before, so this was very fortunate for me.

On top of that I was wearing new goggles that i will not wear again, so on the way back in toward the beach (directly into the sun) I could not sight a thing. SO I was so happy to just sit right behind him.

I learned how long it is shallow from the amount of people that were walking probably 400 yds during the shortcourse. so i did many dolphin dives to finish out the swim before i stood up and tried to run.

Nothing. well maybe hire Oscar to swim in front of me at all races.

this was a long narrow transition. overall i cant complain

My bike pace was slower than expected, but from the look of the results so were everyone else's. The top bike pace was 23.8. so I think the wind affected everyone.

On top of that there was a stretch of road that was by far the bumpiest road , I have raced on. It made Lifetime look like a freshly paved road.
SO that slowed everyone down also.

I think i performed as well as expected , given the conditions. Same a every other race, i just need to get better on the bike.

Had to avoid short course racers getting their bikes out of transition. It really would help if race organizers separated short course from long course in transition.

I pushed it but not too hard with it being mostly up hill for the first half. I wanted to save some legs to finish strong.

This was the coolest temperature race for over a month. that and going downhill the last 2 miles made it by far my fastest run this season.

Not much. Continue to work on speed.

Bike strength, especially into a headwind.




The random race numbers made for a hectic transition. Also not having a loudspeaker that the swimmers could hear to start was pretty amatuerish.

Overall it was a fun race, but i think that is because i performed well and finsihed strong as opposed to blowing up.