mini-Mussel Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

This was a complete train wreck. I was totally unprepared for the waves. I started near the front and ran out of energy trying to keep pace with the FOP, then started swallowing waves when my form crumbled. This caused me to slow way down and people started swimming over me. To keep from inhaling more water I had to flip onto my back. I never really recovered and did what I could until the water was about waist high when I started walking. Eventually the water was low enough to actually jog out and I was just happy to be out of the water.

Practice OWS! The one place I've been is a very calm lake, and only has a small sectioned off area for swimming. I'll have to find a different place to swim. And next time I need to pace, instead of sprinting the first 100-150m then blowing up.

This could've been better. I was moving kinda slow, still in shock from the swim probably. I wasted some time struggling with one of the socks.

Not be in a daze coming out of the swim! And also, for my next sprint I think I'll ditch the socks.

I crushed the bike. Not much else to say. One of my best rides ever probably. It took me about a mile to get up to pace, probably because of the swim still. After that it was good. Living in the mountains its hard for me to call them 'hills', but thats where I was really flying by people.

Not much.. my first gel went down kinda rough, I think from all the water I swallowed swimming, so I skipped the planned 2nd one at the end of the ride. I'll have to think of a better nutrition plan because I think it hurt my run

For what I was planning on doing, this went well. I wasn't used to putting my bike on the rack so that took a few extra seconds.

I have to practice the feet out of the shoes dismount. I don't know why I didn't already have that down pat. Seeing others do it I could only shake my head and wish I practiced it. Next time.

I should've been much faster here. I've been around 7:30 in my practice bricks of similar bike/run length to this race. My stomach still felt weird even though I didn't eat the 2nd gel or finish my bottle of sports drink on the bike, but I just was going too slow in the first half. I got it together and had a good 3rd mile.

HTFU. I can run faster and I should've in this race

Walked around with my friend. Stretched after I caught my breath and had some water and a piece of watermelon.


Not being prepared for the swim and starting out at a slow pace on the run.


I had an absolute blast. I don't think I could've picked a better race for my first triathlon. I will definitely be back next year. Also, hanging around afterwards and watching the pros race in the ITU Pan America Cup was a nice finish to the day.