Michigan's Triathlon and Duathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Wanted to break 30 minutes, just missed! Overall the swim was good, drafted a few different folks, the first two were not navigating real well and appeared to be tacking like a sail boat with all there zigging and zagging. After rounding the island, a fast dude from the wave behind me I think passed and I hung on his feet for a good chunk of the way into shore. For some strange reason they had different colored swim caps in different waves. I like to know who's in my wave or the wave behind me. Not sure why the caps were messed up.


This was by far my best tri swim, time wise and just how good I felt getting out of the water. The longer swim workouts and OWS practice this summer made a world of difference in my overall performance.

This weather created a change in my normal set up of wearing my tri top under my wet suit. I had to have a long sleeve shirt on for the bike, wanted to assure that I kept my core warm as I was concerned about hypothermia on the bike. I dried off with a towel but still had troubles with the sleeves.

I was quite upset with the transition. I would've loved to stuck with what I always do, but the weather forced the change. Not much you can do with that.

This would've been a GREAT course if they could shut the roads down to traffic. I was surprised by the amount of traffic at times, riders had to be careful while passing etc with traffic and not to draft. I rode real well and wanted to break 1:15 which I did. I pushed the pace pretty hard but was surprised at some of the folks I dropped on the hills, I never thought hills were my strong suit, but I felt strong overall. Had two gels, one water bottle and one bottle of Infint on the bike.

Just need more time in saddle and work on building speed for next year.

Getting my feet out and on top of my shoes is working out real well, and makes the transition quick.



No real complaints but I think I may try the quick laces again to speed things up a little.

Run went well. I never stopped for water or gatorade when I new I had a chance at breaking 2:40 I was pumped! Legs felt good and I was pretty darn uncomfortable towards the end. I had my camelbak fanny in the transition but decided to leave it behind.

Just work on building more long runs and speed for next year. Want to get my run under the 8 minute/mile pace.

Walked around a bit, drank some gatorade, then post recovery Infinit. Loaded up my gear and drank water, ate two hard boiled eggs, and a cliff bar while driving home.


I left everything I had on the course. After posting a 2:54 in a Oly race in August, when I was aiming for a 2:45 or better was disappointing. I added this race just 2 or 3 weeks ago to redeem the poor showing in Lansing. I nearly met my dream goal of 2:40, if it wasn't for the cool temps and a bad T1, I would've had a shot at it. So at least I have a new PR of 2:42. Not sure why the clock was on 2:41 when I crossed the finish line.

Since I haven't done tris in 17 or 18 years, or even swam much in recent years, starting back this year with 4 races, 2 sprints and 2 Olys and meeting my goal of 2:45 was an outstanding finish to my year! Looking forward to just lounging around and doing some mountain biking and trail running over the next several weeks before getting back to a solid tri plan for next season.


Great location for a race would be made even better if they could close the roads to traffic, if not all then White Lake Rd at a minimum, which would make avoiding a draft and passing much better, not to mention safer. They mentioned they had catered food, which looked like something you'd see at a wedding buffet, the lines were long. I think I saw 10 spectators for every one racer in line. Didn't bother waiting. I think the Pita sandwiches the week before at Novi would've been much better.

I was surprised by the fact that the mens 40-44 was the largest age group in the Oly.