Black Diamond Olympic Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

I was realistically thinking 40 minutes. A scret side of me thought 35 minutes was doable so I was pretty happy with the 37 minute swim. Even though I was 8 of 8 in my division and 266 of 302 overall I just couldnt have done more this time around.

The start was a bit rough. I decided to go to the middle to save myself about 50 yards or so. I waited 15 or 20 seconds for things to spread out but still got the kicking and punching. I would guess 150 or more people in my wave.

I really cant think of anything to do differently. I hate the answer "train more" but that would be the only thing that would have improved my time. I plan on getting a little coaching over the winter and would like to see my times got to under 2:00 per 100 and get closer to a 30 minute split.

I hate the feeling of first coming out of the water and this race is uphill quite a bit to the transition area. Lots of people along the chute cheering make it better though.

Overall it was a good transition. Just glancing through the other times my 3:13 was probably in the top 25%.

The only thing left to do to speed this up is to learn to leave with shoes already clipped on the bike so I dont have to take the time to put them on in the TA.

8 of 8 and 198 of 272. I really thought I would have been faster than this. Some of these folks are really fast!

I felt pretty good the entire time. Had 1 water bottle, 1 bottle of Power Ade mixed for 210 calories and 1 Power Gel that I took with about 10 miles to go.



I maybe could go a bit harder although not sure how much. This was a good ride for me.

Starting with shoes clipped in would have sped me up by 30 seconds or...

This was a great T2. Got out of shoes early and flew off the bike. Passed 5 or 6 people right at the dismount lne and 2 more in the chute. Too bad I dont race everything as fast as I race the transitions.

Just run faster!

I knew a sub 1 hour run wasnt in the cards within a half mile. My fastest training 10K was 56 minutes and that was without a 25 mile bike ride prior to doing it.

I actually got my legs faster than normal.

Push a bit more a bit sooner.

My plan was to:

1 get my HR down to a managelable level.
2. Maintain pace for the first 3 miles.
3. Let it fly on the 2nd 3 miles.

I really didnt let it fly until about 2 miles left. I should have gone a bit harder in mile 4.

Walked around vendors tents and ate. Hung out for awards and raffles then drove for 6 hours back home.


Just training miles. Nothing I did today altered my outcome at all. I almost raced a perfect race for my training level.

My expectation was 3:15. I thought that with some magic I could maybe break 3 hours. So 3:09 was a good in between.

Considering I had back surgery in February of this year and really didnt get cleared to start anything until late May and my body just wasnt OK with really training until the end of June I am pretty happy with the way this went.

I jumped into training 14 weeks prior to the race. Thankfully having enough base left to do the time.

If I stay healthy and dont let up on my training 2007 should be a good year. I can realistically see a 2:40 OLY pretty easily I think.


This is my 2nd race at this event. I did the sprint last year. I am now planning on my first HIM at this venue in 2007.