Inside-Out Sports Olympic Triathlon at BeaverDam - TriathlonOlympic

Not sure why this took 29 mins...I swam 25 in the pool earlier in the week. Gotta believe it was long because I dont think I swam off course much. OK swim- just swam. Water felt perfect temp with the wetsuit. No worries there. I was off on my own a LOT of the swim- either I was swimming a direct route and everyone else was off, or vice versa! ha. Being a square though it doesnt make that much difference.

Not sure. Push more? I kept it comfortable the whole swim.

Slow T1 for me. Struggled with the wetsuit and flubbed around a little. Was 9th in category and 39 in gender ranking on this so I guess not overly slow, but not fast either. Pretty OK for first one of the season though. This was sorta like the whole race- methodical and not in a hurry, but no mistakes.

Hurry it along a little.

Slow bike for me but I was freaked out at the thought of the hills on the run and wanted to try pace a little better on a ride and see how the run went, so I deliberately backed off the pace on the hills and took it easy (well, some of the hills were long enough that easy was relative because they were long and required effort to get up anyway). My front brake was rubbing right at the beginning of the ride but I fixed that, and then my back brake rubbed at the end! Fixed that on t he ride too. And when I went to drink the lid of my bottle flew off and I spilled accelerade all over me! Stick mess. I took a Gu Roctane at 30 or so mins and then a regular GU about an 1hr10 in. I think that worked perfectly mixed with a few gulps of water and some accelerade. Didn't feel malnourished in any way lol.

Push harder.

Methodical T2. Did a flying dismount and passed a guy there then just racked the bike, got my helmet off and shoes on and headed out. First in AG on this, and 4th overall! I wasn't in a hurry but just ticked through T2. Nice.

Nothing.

I felt great from the start of this. No brick legs at all. Started nice and easy because I was really worried about the hills and still had B2B and how that run went (as well as every other OLY run I have done) fresh in my mind. I knew Bill was a bit behind me and then saw him coming in on the bike when I was about 0.6 miles in so I had a little headstart. Saw him several more times and although he looked strong he said he felt lousy, but was still closing the gap. Meanwhile I was running very much in control, worried about falling apart, but happy to not be. Miles were 8:15, 8:08, 7:44, 7:45, 7:44. I never fell apart of even contemplated needing to stop and walk. I tried to encourage some people that looked in pain along the way...normally thats me haha. When I got to the top of the final hill (mile 5) I opened it up and ran comfortably hard for the last mile and finished with a 6:45 mile. I could probably have opened it up sooner but I gotta say, it was so nice to feel good all run rather than hating it. This is a 3 min PR for a run in an OLY on a hilly course, but the flipside is that the weather was near perfect. Turns out I passed Bill's friend Greg Warren about 50 yards from the finish.

Open it up sooner to cut some time, but very happy with this, and happy to be feeling really good today- no pain, no real fatigue. Good to go this week on training!

Milled about. Chatted to Bill and Greg and then got a bagel with hummus. Delicious!


Worry about the hills and how bad they were going to be! Not pushing harder.


I liked this race. I think the swim was long and it started late but thats OK. Bike was challenging but nothing too bad, and the run was nice, inside the park and quite scenic. Part of me liking the run was that I felt good. I imagine those hills would be horrible on cramping quads!!