Miami Man International - TriathlonOlympic

this was by far my best swim to date. right off the bat I was totaly comfortable in the water, no problems with breathing or cold water or vision issues. the lake was perfect tempurature and the water really was crystal clear..even in the deep parts you could see the bottom. the water clarity was really helpfull in navigation...i could look up, site, then look down and pick a spot on the lake floor to swim to then site again..this worked perfectly and I never got off course. there was lots of traffic to start but I stayed to the right and rounded the first balloon no problem. by the time I rounded the third balloon I was catching up to the wave in front of me. then there was a long straight away and i was really cookin'...doing everything Gary tought me about hips and stroke...next thing I know I'm all alone heading into the finish. come to find out later I had actually passed some people from 2 waves in front of me and all but 1 guy in my wave

nothing...just keep practicing in open water and get even faster

there were wet suit strippers at the swim finish which really helped. the transition was really long and I was at the near end which meant I got to my bike fast but then had to run the whole thing in my bike shoes which isn't fast.

learn to mount the bike with the shoes in the pedals so I can run out faster.

as usualy the bike was my worst event. it started out good, I was doing about 23-24 mph, passing some people and feeling good. come to find out it was because I had a tail wind and when we turned the first corner the wind hit me in the face. then the masses of riders started to pass me. I'm really not sure why other riders aren't as affected by the wind as I am. after the turn around I managed to pass a few riders that were in worse shape than me but many more were passing me. for the last 8-9 miles my inner thigh/groin started to tighten up and cramp and I couldn't get comfortable in the saddle. in some places it was all i could to just to keep peddeling. by the time I hit transition my legs were shot.

train, train, train.....save up for a new bike, there's a reason people are willing to spend huge amounts of money on their bikes, and it's not for the fancy paint jobs...I do believe that I may have pushed myself as far as i can progress on my current ride

there was along walk from dismount to my spot and my legs were in real trouble. i was actualy limping most of the way from the cramping in my thighs. when I racked my bike I bent over to put on my shoes and nearly fell over. I had no choice but to sit down and stretch out my quads, hammies, groin....this took several minutes but once done I was able to get up and get changed and run out

figure out why my legs cramp so badly when I push myself on the bike

I was very surprised that my legs didn't give me too much trouble considering the bike and T2...but no real pain or cramping, the stretching handled it. I definitely did more passing than getting passed. felt good and managed a good pace, faster than my average training pace. spoke briefly with a few runners along the way and kept my mind off the distance. ate a gel about half way through when I started feeling hungry. for about the last 2 mile I was running at the lead of a group of about 4 other guys. all pacing off each other and nobody trying to pull away. as we rounded the last corner I had already decided not to let anyone outsprint me. with about 2 tenths to go the guy to my left started to lead out so I paced with him...we slowly increased our speed until it was an all out sprint...turns out we had too far to go and I couldn't sprint for that long, about 30 feet before the finish I slowed and pretty much walked accross. at that point I felt like I was having an asthma attack, my throat closed up and I was having trouble getting enough air. I started seeing black spots in my vision and came very close to blacking out puking or both. so i just sat down, took my shoes off and focused on breathing naturaly. after what seemed like an eternity I was feeling normal again and started walking a little

I need to be caefull in the sprint finish to not start too early. if I had lulled this guy into waiting another 30 seconds before the all out sprint I would have beat him

just gingerly walking around and sitting in the grass to stretch. my wife got stuck at the zoo waiting for the tram so it took about an hour and half to find her. I was just walking around the expo and watching the other racers come in as well as the 1/2 iron head out on the run.


the bike is my achilles heal...until I figure out how to avg 2 mph faster I won't really be competative in my age group


really well run, tons of volunteers and everything went as scheduled. my only issue was they didn't have nearly enough port-ol-ets for this size of event. they should have had twice as many as were there...because of this they were really a foul environment inside...no fun at all.