Lake Waconia Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

With the shortened course, and the waves, it made for some interesting navigation... easily 50% of the group was breast stroke or something that resembled that. Watching from the shore, plan was to stay left and out of that mess. After the first bouy rounding (where it was a typical short course traffic jam), I was swimming along and heard a police boat "chirp" as then headed in to pick up a swimmer that was calling it quits... with their direction and intent, I had to completely stop and almost pull back. Then I ended up having to swim out and around them. After that (maybe 20-30 sec. impact) it was smooth sailing...

stay waider at the first turn bouy...

Forgot to get my shoulders off on my lower wetsuit... slowed me down a few seconds...

This one was fun... with the wind, through mile 10, I was only at a 17.6 amph... my 808's made it fun to say the least. Nice to be in a race that I actually pass people on the bike. Had one issue with an individual that had problems understanding the position rules, but fortunately, the officials were right behind us and sure enough, looking at the penalty's, he got nailed... first time in any race where I have seen that!

I knew I needed to push hard on the way out (into the wind), but I don't think I understood how hard to push. I could have gone harder and possibly cut another minute off my bike time.

So... I hop off the bike, and take about 5 steps and there is a loud "POW" from the back of my bike and the rear wheel stops spinning... so I am dragging my bike and end up having to pick it up and run with it to the bike rack. Didn't take the time to look to see what happened at the time, but ended up that a spoke had sheared off and thus the wheel going out of true.

Not have a spoke/nipple blowout...

Took me a little over a mile to get my stride going. However, for me, this was a great run... good time on a slightly more difficult course. on the hills, I kept my head down, shortened my strides and let my legs push me up! Down hill, I opened up and let the legs run it out...

Not sure if I need to push a bit harder in the beginning to get the legs running or if this is just my lot in life... need to do some simulations in my brick workouts.

nothing more than water intake and water. Headed to my bike pretty quickly to see the damage. I had some bad thoughts in my head! Can't afford a new wheel right now!? Luckily, it was just the spoke issue!


Understanding what makes my good runs good and bad runs bad. I have enough miles in, but still need to learn. Nothing now till Lifetime, but I will be pushing to see if I can nail that one this year!


Overall a great race... I will be commenting on my Garmin 310xt performance in the other forums. Training... it's working wonders, but it has failed twice now in races... :( (notice I have no additional lap data available!?)