Columbia Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Just felt really comfortable the whole time. Water temp felt good. There was a little bit of a crowd at a couple points, but nothing serious.

Maybe kick more, as my swimming instructor says I should.

This is estimated, since T1 and the bike split were combined in the results. Feet caught a little on the wetsuit, other than that things were smooth.

I didn't practice/think through transitions as much as in the past.

New bike, and the last 4 months of training really made a difference. One scary gust of wind blew me across the road a bit, but overall there were no major issues. The rain squall hit just as I was going down the big hill before the Folly Quarter traffic circle. Nothing like rain in your face at 40 MPH.

Nothing. The rain slowed me down a little, but it wasn't worth the risk.

Only thing I messed up was not putting on my knee band, which led to (duh) my knee hurting by mile 4 of the run.

Put on knee band.

Coming out of T2, I knew I had a really good shot at breaking my goal time of 3 hours. Spent most of the run figuring in my head how slow I could go and still make it under 3. The hills were tough, but like with the bike, training and losing 30 lbs. didn't hurt.

Could've pushed more, but my knee was getting achy.

Found my wife and daughter, stretched, had a beer. Went and got a massage, and met Chrissie Wellington as she was leaving from getting hers! Pretty cool lady.


The wind and rain slowed things down a little on the bike. I might have been able to push a little harder on the run, but I have Eagleman next month and didn't want to blow my knee up.


I am stoked. I got caught up behind the bike accident last year, but even with that my time would have been about 3:15 - 3:20. I had been telling myself for the last few days that sub-3 might not be in the cards, since I hadn't done any events yet this year to really gauge my progress. I am so happy to be this much healthier, not just in terms of triathlon but in overall lifestyle.

Bring on Eagleman!