Columbia Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Read on BT to position near shore and head stright at the turn bouy instead of the yellow markers. Came close to shore and hit weeds which might have freaked others but not Creek Boy.

Nothing I was happy with

Little unstable getting out of the water, so walked up the hill to T1. Found rack easily and stripped without issue.
Under the weather conditions I walked up the slick slope out of T1 with Melissa's ducttape trick on my shoes. Then carefully clipped in.

Nothing to improve except maybe practice

Had to take the course a little easy due to the rain slick conditions. Lost focus of my nutrition and hydration. Needed more Gatorade (untouched in the cage) Could not hammer the downhills as I had wanted so used extra energy going up faster to maintain my race goal. Could have hurt my run some.
Main focus was not to crash, DONE. Had an enjoyable ride as I passed 3 of my AG'ers.

Change out the cassette to the 12-27 so I could climb more spinning instead of pushing.

Very happy with this. I have been practicing removing the feet from the shoes and then riding with them on top. Worked well on the downhill approach to the dismount line.

NOTHING

I can't run and I proved it again. Was in good shape right up to here. My quads were on fire and I could never get relaxed. Walked way too much but the legs just never felt good but were improving due to hydration.
Too hard on the bike again??? Very frustrating and I have been having some great bricks so this is confusing me. Most bricks were done after easy rides so maybe I need to up the effort before the bricks.
Did negative split going out 34:02 3 miles, return 3.2 miles in 31:04. Could be the Gatorade finally got my body back.

Need to figure out how hard to bike to save my legs for the run. URGH

Finished with a smile thru the chute. Got my medal (was that Chrissie?) then my chip off. George and Andy met me at the finishers chute as well as our favorite volunteer Melissa. George had a plate of food which looked good. So I found food at Annapolis Tri Club stand and walked to loosen my legs. Got back to transition and ran our gear back to the car. Only halfway back I discovered I had left my wetsuit in T and my crocs at the swim start. More walking to collect them both.


Should have taken the bike easier to reduce the lost in run? MAYBE after all I am a heavy old 50 yo who is just lucky to be able to this well.


Amazing how organized and well run this event is. Look forward to doing it again. Great Volunteers, course markings, well supported course hydration and neighborhood support, just AWESOME.

Will update the times when the final results are published. These are times from my Ironman Timex. Updated 05/18/09 Timex was close and so I have my T1 time.

This is a personal best for a Olympic distance by a mile. My only other event was 03:42:05