Tiger Tri - TriathlonOlympic

Overall, I am happy with the swim. I typically breathe bilaterally but I could never get my heart rate down enough to comfortably breathe bilaterally. Besides from the breathing I felt fine. My sighting was off and ended up swimming the longest stretch of the course in the form of a ‘C’ rather than a straight line. Oh well, this was my second tri ever so I don’t feel I can complain too much. The breathing and sighting will improve with time and experience.

Better sighting and figure out how to control my heart rate a the start of a race.

Looking at the race results I can tell that my T1 was really slow. This is something I need to work on.

I don’t know. I put on socks witch I know most don’t do. I need socks or I will be too uncomfortable. Need to talk to the coach about this. I think experience plays a big role so I hope over time this will get better.

Man this was fast. I have never been close to a 23 average before but then I have never been on a course that is down hill most of the way either…

It was a bit discouraging to see people draft. I stayed close with a group of three other athletes. These athletes were all from the same club and they were drafting. They were literally on a pace line. Triathlon is not a team sport people! If you want to draft try competitive road cycling!


Since I don’t consider myself a very fast biker I am very happy with my 14th rank on the bike. Big confidence booster.


Nothing.

T2 felt alright but again looking at the results I can tell I am slow.

I have tried “speed laces” but they don’t work for me. I don’t feel my shoes are laced tight enough if I don’t use regular laces. Need to consult the coach...

Its always hard to run good coming off the bike and it took me about 1.5 miles to feel alright. My first mile was around 7:45 but I slowly started to increase my speed and got down to 7:20 around mile 3. After that I went back and forth between 7:20 and 7:10. This is a two loop course and shortly after mile 5 is when my race went in the tank.

Rather than directing towards the finish line they sent me on a THIRD loop! I knew I was close to the finish and I kept asking where is the finish line? All I got was just keep running… Eventually someone realized what had happened and told me I had to turn around. Now I was pissed and dropped f-bombs left and right. I lost tons of time running the extra distance. The person directing people to the second loop or the finish line did not pay attention and the course was poorly marked where I needed to make the turn towards the finish.

I passed the guy that finished in 13th place at mile 5 so I know I would have finished at least 13th or better had they not sent me out on a third loop. I was rally upset right after the race but now that I had time to digest the whole thing I feel a bit better.


Not much. The run itself felt good.

Cussing the volunteer that sent me on a third loop… ;-) Had some water, Gatorade and bagels.


Nothing really. I felt I had a good race as far as my performance. Need to work on my transitions.


This is a good and fun race but I doubt that I will do it again next year. The part of the run course that is on grass is terrible. It’s easy to get injured. I was scared to sprain my ankle. It’s easily done on that kind of surface. I think I will try a different Oly next year.

Overall, I had a great time and it was nice to hangout with fellow BT and Blaze members.