Bonelli Olympic Distance Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Longest race swim distance yet. Felt pretty good and finished with a better time then predicted. I did fight anxiety over the distance for a good portion of the swim but really didn't impact the swim as I just tried to keep the arms churning. Hopefully one day the confidence will be there and this won't an issue.

Better navigation. Navigation was difficult because the goggles fogged up and really couldn't see much. But getting better at navigating is something to work on for next season.

I don't think any one thing slowed me down a lot, just probably losing a second here or there on things like the taking off the wetsuit and the jersey rolling up when putting it on

I was expecting a flat course so the time is slower then I thought it would be. Felt really good on the flat and wasable to kep spped up over 20MPH but the hills made an impact.

Nothing really. Tried to keep pushing the entire ride.

Not much more I am going to do to spped this up any.

This is where the longer distance took it's toll. Had wanted to keep around 9 min/mile pace but was just not able to do it.

Even though I am dissapointed with the time, I am happy that I was able to complete the Olympic distance with virtually no walking (in/out of aid stations).

Walked around, waited for Mike to finish.


I have to believe being sick the week leading up to the race. I was hopeing 10 months of traning would make up for 1 week of sickness and I actually felt much better the morning of the race. I did notice breathing (weezing) during the swim but other then that I didn't notice any effects of being sick. I would have prefered coming in the last week with no sickness and getting workouts in but I must say I am pretty happy overall last 10 months since starting on training.


Was dissapointed there were not any drinks at the end of the race. Fortunatly there were plents of drinking faucets. Was also a little dissapointed some of the vendors were already leaving so soon after the race as I would have liked to have checked some of them out but seemed like they were already packing up when I got done with the race.