Guelph Lake I - Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Felt good at the start but ran out of gas near the end.

Nothing. A little more conditioning and I would have been fine through the finish.

My goggles fell out of my sleeves running into transition and I turned around to get them. In hind site I should have just left them and collected them after the race, other than that I was happy with my time. My first race and I haven't practised transitioning at all.

Not turn back to collect my goggles and work on putting a my helmet and glasses while exiting my suit.

I was happy with my ride. I was a little faster than I expected I would be and after going pretty hard on the swim I felt surprisingly good on the bike once I was out of the park and cruising.

Nothing really I was happy with my ride.

I was pretty happy with the transition. Like I mentioned before I hadn't practised at all and it went pretty smoothly.

Just practice a bit to pull my time down.

This is where it fell apart. As soon as I was about 500m in I knew I was in trouble. The side stitches started and my legs tensed up. I ended up walking a bunch on the course. Running is by far my weak spot and haven't been able to train too much due to feet and knee problem so I wasn't expecting too much...still I was much slower than I wanted to be.

Save a bit on the swim and bike to have more juice during the run. Get a lot more running in before my next race.

Just walked around and joined my family.


Being my first race I wasn't sure how to deal with eating before. I at a normal breakfast in the morning then snacked on stuff up to the race but next time I think I will try and eat a bigger meal about 3 hours before and a little less closer to the race. Once I got to the run I was having some stomach pain that I think was from eating to close to the race.


This was my first Triathlon and I had a blast the atmosphere and people were great.

I am a fast swimmer so I was worried about running into the waves in front but thanks to a post on this site from crmorton on this site I realized I could register as an elite age grouper to get out with the first wave. This worked out great for me as I was 2nd out of the water and certainly wouldn't have been this quick if I had to fight through an earlier wave.

I was happy with my bike but need to work on the running a little more clearly. I also need to put in some more training hours to sustain myself through the run and keep my swim time low without draining the tank as much.

All in all I am supper happy with my performance and experience at the event and looking forward to more races this summer.