The Legends Tri - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

Race tried rolling start with self-seeding for the first time. I'm in favor of that.

Other than course being VERY long, this was a pleasant and pretty representative OW swim for me.

Nothing. Time was bad on paper, but course was long without a doubt. I placed in about the top 1/4 overall (in a strong field) which is good.

Not a bad T1, but time was surprisingly long. I did set myself up to have the longest possible run to the bike out.

T1 is always an epic event for me with socks and all.

I got passed more than I would have liked and avg speed was less than target. I didn't really push this, though: Was getting some early signals of hamstring cramping.

Could have opened up on the downhills more, honestly. And pushed a little harder overall.

Had a hard time getting into left shoe.

Not sure why left shoe was stubborn...otherwise, this was fine.

Wasn't sure how this would go after racing a 5K yesterday, but I hung in there. Course was very short, so my sub-44:30 time is misleading, but I would have been right around 45 mins if the course had been 6.2 and that was what I was looking for, really.

Ideally, don't race a 5K the day before....

Walked around. Packed up.


A bit out of shape after rehabbing lower back much of August and September. I feel like my bike performance should be better than it was today and in the half iron at Malibu last month.


14th year for this "championship"/"express" combo. They've added an aquabike and a duathlon recently. There's a 5k/10k and a parent/child division in the tri. Tri-Events has been putting on "grass roots" style tri's at Bonelli Park for years and I always enjoy them.