Capital of Texas Triathlon - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

Felt pretty good on the swim and got pretty much what I expected on the pace. Able to draft a guy almost the whole way down the back side of the loop and didn't have any real panic moments.

Just more time in the pool. Overall pretty much what I was expecting and pretty happy with my performance.

The transition area was pretty huge so going between the swim exit and the mount line was quite some distance that I wasn't exactly covering quickly. Definitely trying to get the breathing/heart rate under control after the swim before getting on the bike. In addition to the huge distance traveled it certainly made for some dirty feet which I wasted some time trying to clean before throwin on the bike shoes.

Other than run rather than walk through transition I think it went pretty good. No real hassle getting off the wetsuit so I'm pretty happy.

Started off a bit slow for this one trying to work up to some speed. Downed a gel after the first loop and kept taking in water. I think I may have taken in a bit too much fluid on the bike but overall not too unhappy with how the ride turned out. I was aiming for a split under 1:15 so after I saw my time I was happy.

Just need to get more miled under me.

A bit longer than I would have liked, but I did lose some time putting on socks and not leaving my bike shoes clipped into my bike this time.

Stop being lazy and run through transition.

Whew...this part sucked. I realized on the fourth loop of the bike course that my run was going to be terrible. I've put down 11 miles since my last race, a sprint at the end of April, which is a good guestimator of what my run was going to be like. After getting on my feet I just wanted to still make my 3 hour goal which meant I needed to do just under 11minute miles. Fortunately I was able to accomplish that. However I'm still pretty disappointed in my run even though I shouldn't expect much better with the limited amount of training.

Run more, lots more.

Had the most tasty cold bottle of water ever and then got a massage.


Undertrained. Missed too much time being sick for the first two weeks of May. Need to work out fluid intake/nutrition for the Oly distance. Don't know if I was feeling weird because I didn't have enough or had too much.


Kind of a mess after the race trying to get back to the transition area and get the bikes out.

Overall I was pleased with my first Olympic race. I wanted to do it in under 3 hours which I accomplished and I know that I can get that time down by a good 15 minutes if I can just run the whole run portion rather than walking so much of it.