Los Angeles Triathlon - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

I have never run from the beach into the water. On the practice, I would wade in and take my time. I stayed to the outside to avoid getting trampled. Just stayed in my routine. I was shocked to be passing people since I never thought I would do that.

Nothing. Was pleasantly surprised. Just will keep working on the swim.

Took for ever to get on my gloves. My hands were shaking. But I was happy to be out of the water.

Maybe not use gloves or put them on while biking. Also, I started in a high gear and barely had the energy to move forward. Big mistake.

Enjoyed the bike. Was glad to be out of the water. It seemed uphill the entire way. I lost my energy gels but that seemed to be fine. The last few miles were all uphill and I passed a lot of bikers. My turns were poor and I slowed down quite a bit. Road was uneven and had to pay attention to avoid some holes.

Tape energy gels to bar. Practice riding with the aerobars. Tried it for a bit and swerved all over the place. But my pace was faster than I expected.

I dismounted too early. Better safe than sorry. Was still in bit of a fog and the bike rack was full. Someone said I could use another one. Took a few seconds for the guy to locate my bag since I didn't set up this transition area.

I would know where the dismount was. Wasted some time on that.

Wow. Didn't realize how hilly downtown Los Angeles is and I live in LA! I walked twice for maybe a minute on the hills -- didn't want to do that but needed to regroup.

Practice more running hills. Wasn't really prepared. Also, I have never ran more than a 10k and doing it at the end of a triathlon is tough. I should have had a run of 9 or 10 miles so 6 wouldn't seem forever. But, I did beat my one time a ran a 10k race by two minutes!

I was just relieved. Spent a lot of energy and that was the farthest I had ever done the individual distances as well.


Not enough training time. Started 10 weeks prior on a fast-track program. Also, I have never done more than the distances in the race.


Well, this was my first major triathlon so it is hard to rate. But knowing the logistics of Los Angeles, it was pretty incredible. Tons of policemen and traffic officers. It was incredible to ride down major intersections with no traffic. I was pretty beat after but it was fun to shatter my expected time.