Wildflower Triathlon - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

Felt solid on the swim, navigated well, didn't get too excited at the start. Maintained good form(for me). Wasn't able to draft very much. Despite feeling like my swim went well, I ended up 4 minutes slower than the last race. Either I lost a lot of time not drafting or the last course was shorter, not too sure.

Swim more, I focused on the bike/run since last race. Felt my arms and shoulders getting a little sore during the swim, probably due to a lack of consistent swim training for about a month.

Transition went smooth, took a few extra seconds to get the wetsuit off my left leg.

Practice wetsuit removal, rubberband shoe to my frame to avoid some minor shoe dragging.

Went out hard on the bike, spectators were awesome. I heard someone yell "Holy &*^% look at the guy on the Felt, he's hauling ass!" while going up Lynch Hill. That gave me a huge confidence booster (even if I wasn't hauling ass). I pushed hard the whole way, noticed I was feeling a little fatigued on the last couple inclines, so I focused on my heart rate and didn't over-do it coming into the run. Since there were multiple waves on the course already I passed people like it was my job, which feels awesome, but I think this is due to getting behind during the swim haha.

Not much, except train more (of course). I do want to drop my bars a bit to get a little better position, and to be nitpicky I ended up having a 3/4 full bottle of gatorade in my cage, could have filled it half way instead of full to reduce weight, but that's nitpicky. Oh, and next race I'm rocking an aero helmet.

Smooth transition, took the extra few seconds to get a good swig of water from my aero bottle before taking off. Threw a powergel in my pocket and took off. No socks.

Not much.

Again spectators were great. So much enthusiasm and encouragement. Aid stations were fabulous, tons of volunteers, never felt dehydrated and had water available when I needed it. The run went smooth, pushed as hard as I though I reasonably could, then finished fast and strong. I felt like I stuck right at my limit then ruined myself going down Lynch Hill and through the chute. One interesting note was that I didn't clue into the KILOMETER markers. I thought I was keeping bad time or running fabulous miles for the first few. I guess that's not as bad as the racer I spoke to afterwards who did his final kick after Kilometer 6....oops.

Nothing. Hydration was perfect, ran well.

Walked slowly around the finishing area until finding my girlfriend, then begging her to get me burrito and a rootbeer. Best meal ever. Stretched out a little while later. The hardest part of the whole race was carrying my bike and ridiculous bag of tools/transition gear up the dirt path to our car. GF had to get out early to study so we hiked. I almost went man down going up the hill.


Loved Wildflower, definitely doing Long Course 2009.