USAT Age Group National Championship - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

Gender: 1177/1181. Good swim, just too slow. Got overtaken by the next wave about 2/3 of the way through the course. They swam right over the top of me, so I had to get out of their way. The wave after them caught up to me as I neared the exit ramp.

Swim faster.

I thought it was a good transition, but looking at the stats, I was pretty slow. 2436/2609 overall, 106/119 age group, 1086/1181 gender.

Go faster.

Hmmm. Not sure why I was so slow.

Go faster.

Had to visit the blue rooms, which cost me about three minutes.

Nothing. Age group: 117/119; gender 1175/1181

Did my best. Ran for about 3.5 miles, and then walked for about a hundred paces, and then ran again. Walked through aid stations. Walked a few paces, but mostly ran. GPS watch kicked in at about a half mile into the run:

Mile 1: 12:06/5.0 mph
Mile 2: 12:11/4.9 mph
Mile 3: 12:39/4.8 mph
Mile 4: 13:23/4.5 mph
Mile 5: 13:45/4.4 mph
Mile 5.71: 9:14/4.6 mph <--this includes some time at the end of the race, before I remembered to stop my watch.



Run faster. When I checked the video, I could see I run very stiff legged. I need to lift my knees when I run. I'm not sure how to do that.

Found the food tent and ate. Went and got my credit card and spent a lot of money, and then went and laid down with my bike in the grass and took a nap while waiting for another triathlete staying at the same AirBnB to bring me my race packet for the Sprint so I could recheck my bike back into transition.


Me. I took Mark Allen's advice during the run and kept telling myself to just focus on the current mile and forget the ones before and after. I think it helped.


I'd definitely do this race again, if I qualify. I had a lot of fun, which was my goal.