Mountain Tropic Tri - Olympic Course - TriathlonOlympic

Well, like I said I've just been having a hard time with my swim lately, wondering if it's from the plague I had right before Boise 70.3, that knocked me on my ass but I've been fine since, I just don't know how to explain the crappy swims, since I swim frequently, what gives, urrr! I started out in the front of the pack hopeing to catch some feet that knew where they were going, naturally I picked the wrong feet, ugh. I didn't site like I should have and when I looked up we were way over from the buoys, couldn't believe it so a bunch of people got ahead of me, my breating was really bad, usually for some reason I don't have a hard time with the breathing when I'm racing, don't know why but anyway, on this day, it was bad for breathing, actually had to stop for a few sec to catch my breath, felt like such a newb. Once I rounded the buoy for the turn around, I felt a little better and actually started passing a few people but not enough to make up for the bad navigation in the begining, this is what caused me to be 5th OAF and not 4th, when I compare the splits, bummer, I hope that's a lesson learned to me, site the course even when drafing!!!!

Site better for sure!!

So, I get to T1 and the girl next to me can't get her suit zipped down, so I tried helping her for at least 30s, I couldn't get it down either, said sorry and she was cool with that. Other than that, think I did ok, found rack easy and got suit off ok, could always go faster but guess I'd need to practice more for that ;)

go faster with getting suit off etc.

Had a good ride, got to use my new awesome LG Superleggara (sp?) aero helmet with visor, so cool looking ha-ha! As a side note when we unloaded the bikes when we got back to town, the disc had a flat!!!! Found a deep nick in it, I was so lucky to finish the race, wow, the tri gods were looking out for me that day!

Get better at hill climbing, not have rodents killing themselves under my tires and mow more people down ;)

I really screwed up this T2, stupid mistake, ran 3 or 4 racks past my rack! Was running with bike looking at the posted rack #'s and didn't see mine so ran right past it. I always count racks as a pre race routine but maybe bc this was an away race and lack of sleep I just plain forgot, bummer, so I paid for it with a pathetic T2 time.

Don't rely on looking up #'s on racks to get to bike. Count racks and practice running into them a few times, I know all this, I just wish I did it, ugh!!

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Just try to run more, hoping I can lay down some more miles before Emmett race so I can improve my time.

Grabbed a chocolate mild and couple bananas and walked to the beach, which by the way is beautiful, the lake is so blue and clear it's like the Caribean, hence the name of the race Mtn Tropic, aptly named. I just floated, dunked my head and stayed in there for around 10min in hopes I could help my legs recover quicker, I'm a big believer in the ice bath, this wasn't that but figured better than nothing, plus it felt sooo good.


Perhaps my 2.5hrs sleep nite before. Really though, I think I performed about as well as I could given my fitness level at this point. My swim is so difficult lately, makes me feel so frustrated, hope it gets better. My biking was good for me and the run was fine, would like to get faster but that will take some more time.


Hmm, so for $110 for an oly I was expecting a little more support. Maybe I'm spoiled from the great support at the Emmett race but there was only a couple volunteers at the aid stations and only one would be out there with water, so not ideal if few people back to back, I like 2 waters to throw/drink on me without slowing down. Also, they ran out of chocolate milk for the Half's,none at all and were dissasembling equiment too, thought that wasn't good form. There wasn't any gels offered on the run either which isn't a problem for me on the run but could be for others especially the Half runners. Also, this may be asking too much but I think the RD should have asked the town to patch up that really bad gravel spot on the curve, needs to happen anyway, make some effort to protect the racers, this should be part of their job. On a positive note, the weather was great for my race, not too warm, (def too warm for the Half 85+),no wind or rain and I had a great massage for free, that was lovely.