Who Tri's Harder? Octomax Sprint Distance - TriathlonSprint

First mass start. It was crazy but way fun to battle out swimming over people, gettin kicked and hit. What a rush!

Not too much, just experienced this one

Well I bike w/ my run shoes, so this transition is slow while the next one is fast.

Should have gone w/o a shirt

The speed bumps sucked, and there were about 4 places where the road just reeked of something dead just off the pavement. I just need to do more hill work and get some shoes and spend some time in the saddle if I want to get faster.

Train on hills more.

Smooth sailing, just had to rack bike and take of helmet and stuff...makes me wonder why it was so long...

This really hurt, I wanted to stop. I knew i had to keep my legs moving, but I got the same damn sideache as last time, just not as bad. I think i need to do more bricks that are TOUGH on me so that my body gets used to the bike to run transition faster. Once I get a sideache, my core muscles tighten up and my run gait gets real tight. I finally hit my stride with a little more than a mile left and picked up the pace to a little under 8 min/mile.

More bricks in training, some higher intensity training.

Walked around w/ Matt(3rd overall), went down to lake and cooled off, went to buffet (hamburger and a beer!), waited around for awards...


Lack of Bricks


Very fun race, bike was more than I expected and although I didn't perform as well as I'd have liked to, I can't be too disappointed w/ the numbers. :) I'll probably do it again next year, but the price WAS pretty steep at $85 a head w/ USAT insurance or whatever it was. Only downer was the tragedy that I heard about after the race...