Lake Mills Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

The lake was pretty calm. I definetely need to work on OWSs. Im not very confident in them, nor in my swimming ability, but I can work on that. At the start of my wave, I let most of the people start swimming while I hung back and picked a spot to swim. I eventually found a good place to swim and started out. The first 150m or so, I was pretty worked up and trying to calm myself down. Once I made it out to the first buoy and turned, it was open enough to where I could just keep my head down and swim. I only spotted once every 20 strokes or so after the first buoy.

Work on my OWSs. I think I just need more time out there. Work on sighting also.

I thought my T1 time was a little high, but the clock doenst lie right? I guess it just went by that quick. Everything went pretty smoothly in the transition area, although I had a little trouble finding my bike.

Arrive earlier to get a better spot in the transition area.

In my AG, I was the third one in, time-wise. My HR was pretty high the whole time, but I wasnt suffering, sucking air or anything like that. There is a hill right away on the start of the ride. Once we got out on the roads a little bit, me and this other guy in my AG kept passing each other. Eventually, he dropped back and drafted most of the rest of the way. There was a lot of that going on. I saw some decent size groups all drafting each other. People were all over the road too. At one point, I ended up drafting some guy for about 100 feet because I couldnt pass. But as soon as it was open, I got around him. I was passing people left and right. It was a blast! It felt like some of those people werent even moving. Along the way another guy started to draft off of me and the other guy. They ended up coming in just before me, but I was able to dismount before them and get into the transition area before them.

I was a little afraid off dying on the run since this was one of the faster ride that I had with a run after. Ive never ran after a ride like this. And because of that, I held back a tiny bit. I need to train more with sprint rides like this so I know my limits.

The area before the transition area was downhill, and I didnt want to risk taking off my shoes while speeding up or braking with one hand. I hoped off my bike while it was moving, ran to my area, fumbled with racking the bike a it, took my shoes off, sat down to put my socks and shoes on, took my helmet off and took off.

Take shoes off while moving and ride with feet on top. Stand while putting socks and shoes on. Not forget my number belt.

The run course was excellent. I loved it. I started to get a sideache at mi 1.5, but was able to keep it from progressing. The trail was only maybe 3-4 feet wide, so at times it was a little hard to pass people. I passed a ton of people on teh run also. My legs felt awesome and looking back I maybe couldve went a little faster. They started working fully after a .5 mi or so and after that it was easy runnin'!

Do more bricks with fast bike rides. Push myself a little more.

Not much. I stretched for maybe a minute, drank my Recoverite drink, ate park of my burrito and 1/2 banana. Amy took some "after" pics of me and after that we walked around and talked with some people.


Definetely the swim. I really need to improve on that. There is also room to improve on my transitions.


Very well put together race. The race director(s) really knew what they were doing. There could have been some people on the bike watching for drafting and stuff, but whatever. Everyone had a good time and it was an excellent race. Im definetely going to make this one a yearly race.