Los Angeles Triathlon (Kaiser Permanente) - Olympi - TriathlonOlympic

Good swim. felt fine. Tried drafting off a few people, but each one of them either was too fast (6 min faster split) or way too slow.

Nothing.

My spot was right neat the exit. I did very good here considering we had to pack up our gear for them to take it to T2. I was very happy with the run in from the water to the T1. I once was never tired as I ran through the sand and into the T1. I had to slightly nudge 5-6 sprint swimmers so they would get out of my way, they were walking and I wasn't going to.

Nothing.

I broke a spoke in the first 2 miles which prevented me from torquing up hills and going full speed down hills. It made my front wheel wobble a little bit and I was careful not to go crazy downhill. I maxed at 38mph, but I could have hit 40+mph easily!!!

Not have a broken spoke (front wheel). I would have/could have had the 1-3 fastest split instead of 5th fastest. I KNOW THIS!

Quick T2, but wasted a little time putting socks on, other than that, it was a good T2--had Rob (omega) yelling at me during the T2...

Nothing.

Well, I started out good, then the hill came. I hate that hill. I mean hate that hill. I ran 1/2 way up each time but had to walk up the steepest part...I actually had to push on my quads as I walked up. I really don't know how some people ran up that thing.
With the hill (2x), I still was somewhat happy with the pace. If I would have "speed walked" up the hill a little more and cut out approx total of 1:30 of walking, I would have placed 4th overall instead of 4th. Actually, I could have placed 3rd overall for superclydes!

No matter what, I wouldn't have walked the 1:30-2min of the run. There was no need to do that. It was mind over pain and I lost that battle for 2 min.

Walked around a lot while drink plenty of water and ate a banana. I had trouble cooling down because the sun was getting really hot!!!


besides poor and unconsistant training, the HILL on the run limited my ability to go faster. Also, my broken spoke limited how fast i was willing to push it on the bike. I could have and should have finished in 3rd place


I could have placed 3rd. I could have actually placed in a triathlon. Now it is just in the super clydes division, but frick...I was probably the biggest super clyde there. One guy that I thought was big only weighed 255...where I have 20lbs on him.

This is my final race at LA. The race is too expensive and the seperate transitions is dumb.