mini-Mussel Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

For me this was a great swim. I went hard but stayed under control. Being in a canal really made navigation easy too. The only negative thing I can say is sometimes the water had a funky smell to it, yuck.

Not much, maybe try to draft more.

I got my suit off and everything on pretty quick, but while running out of transition I dropped my shot blocks. I wouldn't even have noticed but a spectator said something so I had to set the bike down and run back a few feet to pick them up. Only cost me a handful of seconds, but still.

Not drop anything, otherwise this was a good T1

I really kicked some butt on this ride. I didn't get passed by one person the entire ride, while passing countless others in the process, including everyone in my age group who came out of the water ahead of me. I settled into a nice hard effort early on and held it throughout. With such a big field there was always someone within sight to focus on so I never had that moment where I'm all alone and my pace drops. 22mph avg is really fast for me, but if it weren't for the gusty crosswinds I think it would've been even faster.

Nothing, great ride.

This was a funny transition. This was the fasted dismount I've ever had, almost too fast as I stumbled a bit when my feet hit the ground until they could catch up to speed. I racked my bike and got my shoes on quick and took off, then I heard someone yell "Helmet, helmet!!". That would have made for an embarassing run. I took it off and bowled a strike back to my area with it, only losing a second or two.

Take my helmet off!

Lots of pain on this run, but this time it was the good kind. My legs felt like jell-o so I had no concept of how fast I was moving, but I was catching up to people so I knew I had to be doing good. At the first mile marker someone passed me for the first time since I got out of the water, I tried to hang with him but he eventually pulled away. I was still catching people after the turn around loop and was checking their calves, worried that I hadn't seen anyone from my AG on the run course. I found out later it was because there was no one to catch! When the finish came into view I picked up the pace and caught the last guy I could see ahead of me and finished strong.

Not much, given the effort I put out on the bike this was about as fast as I could have ran!

Grabbed some fruit and water, then found a good spot to watch Jamie finish. The girl has barely been training and finished 2nd in the 20-24 AG, just incredible! While waiting for the awards to start we grabbed some more food and packed up our things.


I didn't try to peak for this race, but still came out with what I consider to be a peak performance. All around this was my best race performance, and I got lucky enough that no studs from 20-24 showed up and I got to stand atop the podium. Can't ask for more than that.


I just love this race. 700 registered athletes (666 finishers) and they managed to have everything completely organized and on time. The volunteers were fantastic, and the whole town really comes out to support everyone the whole weekend. I would recommend this race (or the HIM) to anyone.