Nathan Tempe Triathlon - Olympic Course - Triathlon

This event was huge, there where estimated to be over 1,000 athletes, over 500 in the Oly race. The swim ahd lots of bodies, and I got clocked in the head for the first time, nothing serious or hard, but finally took some lumps.

On the swim, my goal was to try to hang with the leaders of the group, so I lined up in the front and went hard from the start, I was with them for about 150m, then I couldn't keep it up, so I had to back off and go with my pace. At about the half way point and at the first turn buoy it was getting crowded with my wave and the wave ahead of me, then the return leg was trying to just swim through folks. I no longer have access to a local pool, so I felt that I lost my sharpness from not having swum in a couple of weeks. I was expecting to get out of water under 25 minutes, but I did, however, improve by 5 minutes from my previous two Olympic races in the Spring.



I just wish that I had a local pool.

I felt a little tired after the swim, and kind of lost my rack too, with so many bike stalls, long transition.

Just get faster.

Since I went apeshit on the bike to attempt to get under 1 hour, I was at Sprint intensity for the entire hour, and left nothing for the run, so I ended up concentrating on my HIM pacing for the run. During the bike, I was passed by a 21 yo at about mile 9, and we paced for a while, then a very fast 31 yo came up at about mile 15, and the 21 yo paced him and I went after both of them, but the 31 yo dropped us, he was incredibably strong, but no one else passed me, I liked being able to hang with someone over half my age.

I SCREWED UP on the bike, I was so caught up in the moment that I passed by the EXIT going full blast and starting another loop, and then realized about another eigth to quarter mile down the road, then had to wait for bikers in the other lane to pass and get back to the exit, this wasted about 2 to 3 minutes, So, according to my power meter and garmin, I traveled about 6/10 mile (1k) too much. but I posted above the NON MISTAKE split, and put the wasted time on transition, and because I was spent and upset, I took probably a little to long during transition.


Not fuck up like I did. Otherwise a great ride and improved by 2 minutes.

I added my fuck up to the transition time...I lost 2' 30" to my bike mishap, then another 2 minutes in transition, just bad all around, cooked legs.

If this race were a serious race I wouldn't have cooked my legs from the bike.

Run, I was just below LT for the entire run, but didn't have any pop in the legs, but I worked on HIM pace of around 7' 30" and was hanging in there, I did a 10K training run on Weds this week and got 42' @ 6.48, so I know I can get a 43' split, just too hard on the bike... at least now I know though that I can hold my goal pace for HIM, I feel that I can get about a 1hr 38 to 40' split here next month.

Water and some food


Because I went so hard at the bike, my stomach couldn't tolerate too much fluids, so I was a little dehydrated on the run, and it was a hot day at around 100F during the run. I probably only took in a total of 20oz of fluid during the whole thing, and no nutrition. Not my best effort, despite improving by 2.5 minutes over my last Olympic.




Good race and organization, just wish they'd have more water stations on the run, esp. considering the temps.