Reston Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Thought swim went really well. Only swallowed one huge face of water other than that was pretty pleased considering first time ever swimming this far at one time. Ended up being a couple minutes faster than I thought I would be.

No much

Could not get the wetsuit off my arms, probalby added one minute.

Practice getting out of wetsuit quickly.

Again, was pretty happy with bike, probably could have pushed the middle lap a little harder. Did the first lap in about 22minutes and figured if I kept up that pace would be dead for the run so i slowed down a bit and did second lap in about 25 minutes then tried to pick it up again for 3rd lap probably could have shaved a couple minutes off ride but not too much.

More training, push a little harder.

Happy with this.

Here is where i think i could have done a little better. When I got off the bike I was feeling pretty good and looked at my watch and figured I could run 10 minute miles roughly to achieve my unofficial goal of 2:45. Well after the first 200 yrds we go down this big hill and all I thought about after that was dont kill yourself so that you die coming up that hill at the end then end up walking around the track to the finish line. Was pretty tired for the first half of run but then picked up pace for second half. But that hill at the end, coming back into the sunlight on a pretty hot day was tough and i more or less tried to keep a decent pace to the finish line but was pretty spent.

Push a little harder, train a little more.

Had some water and a bananna. Tried to eat some pizza and just not much of an appetite. Saw my son, wife, parents, and a few friends who came out for finish which was nice.


First event at this length.


Pretty happy with result given first Oly distance.