Pleasant Prairie Triathlon - International Race - TriathlonOlympic

I'm slow. I'm a solid swimmer and I look pretty good in the water. I don't sway and flail and I can keep a straight line. I'm just a little slow. This is where I need to make the most improvement in the off-season. Other than my issues with the sun I had a hard time sighting in the back half of the swim. I really didn't have a lot of confidence in my line. And I came out of the water on the swim in side of the landing (yikes). I turned the last corner far too wide. Oh and I wasted a lot of time trying to "relax" in the water. I didn't "relax" and it ended up costing me probably about 30 seconds worth of hard swimming. I was very frustrated getting out of the water and was in no mood.

Never mind the bad swimmers (not slow but the bad twisty, turny flailers) around me and begin to swim over people the way others swim over me I guess.

I was the second furthest rack away from the bike in and out. And in the middle. Which I thought was no big deal but I over shot my bike looking for it. I just may get a Sponge Bob balloon to mark my bike the next full race like this. Lots of navigating on the way out. Little slow getting into shoes. I crushed the heels a little bit. Forgot to put body glide in the back of the shoe to make it easier.

Put the body glide in the shoes.

I heard this was short. I know I was comfortably over 21 mph average but not 22.8?! I'll take it. It looks good. Like I said I was a little angry about my swim and my time in getting out of transition. I actually was out of the saddle for the first minute of the bike and yelled a little bit to myself in frustration as I was getting up to speed. I did a lot of out of the saddle up the hills since I was instructed to bike like I didn't have to run afterward. Didn't take as much advantage of the sling shotting on the second loop as I should have.

More sling shotting. More out of saddle on hills.

I don't know how this was slower than T1. Oh I know - there was this chick that slid just past me around the final corner and force me way to the out side and I had to slip outside the cones and just missed clipping the wooden divider horses on that narrow stretch into the bike dismount. I flew off my bike and she then would not get out of my way in T2. I yelled on your left and she wouldn't let me by. She was running in her bike shoes and way too slow for me. I let her have it verbally (much to the dismay of her cheering section outside the transition barriers - sorry folks).

Not sure. Did everything as fast as I could but was set up on the opposite end of the bike in and run out.

Solid run and I've gone faster but I also had to "go" again. Second race in a row. I saw the johnny in the middle of mile one and just had to defuel. I know its only an olympic and I should have done the deed somewhere along the way but I just can't do it. Even with the stop here are my splits:
1 - 7:26 (potty break)
2 - 7:04
3 - 6:48
4 - 7:31 (what happened here?)
5 - 7:01
6 - 7:01
.21 - 1:18

Not stop in the johnny.

Walk, walk, walk. Gatorade stat.


I blame Genetics and the man. The man is always keeping me down.


Great race as always. PP knows what they are doing. The field is always stacked for this race which makes it a lot of fun. I was a little out of sorts because Jen wasn't there. I saw a chick between around mile 5 right around the time I probably would have seen Jen who was wearing a top that Jen typically wears. That bummed me out a little bit. I missed having her there post race (but she's still a Rock Star and an awesome tri chick so don't let her absence fool you). I have to be pleased with my performance regardless of the nit picking...my previous Olympic distance PR was 2:30 (and that was like three weeks ago) and the last time I did PP (2006) my time was 2:39. Sure 2:21:58 is no Schmize (2:09!) but I'll take it.