Kansas City Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Decent swim. .not my best, I think I am capable of doing better. I seemed to get off course a bit a couple of times. I liked the mass start though. I think all races should be like that. Let us line up and duke it out.

Try to sight a little better and jump on the feet of the guy in front of me.

T1 was about normal, I did have some problems getting my wetsuit off. I had a decent transition time, not the fastest, but not the slowest either.

I don't know what my deal was, but I just didn't feel fast and didn't really have my head in the game. My legs didn't really warm up till mile 13 and even then I didn't feel 100% on the bike. I am not sure what it was. The hills seemed hard, felt like I was pushing and not going anywhere. After mile 13 I started to feel better, but then I had a masses of people to weave through and was starting to think about the run and dread that. . . just not a good mental performance on my part.

Perhaps go with a 11-26 gear ratio instead of 11-23, that might have helped a little on the hills. I needed to suck it up and go harder.

Decent T2. I wanted to be under a minute and I was.

Horrible run. I didn't have good run at all. I hit the run and actually felt ok, but my legs just wouldn't turn over, my heart rate was high, but didn't feel like I was going anywhere. Couple of mile splits were around 7:20 for the first two miles which is good for me. I guess I just expected a little more from myself. Overall my run has come a long way and 7:30 miles is good for me. But when everyone else is running low 6 minute miles and high 5 minute miles, low 7s just won't cut it.

Did a 3.1 loop wit Bob. . . I was done after that.


Tired legs and lack of mental focus.


Awesome race. Make sure you have this one on your races for 2010!!!!!

One thing is that I was in the 30-34 age group, when in reality I turn 35 this year, so should have been in the 35-39 age group. Not sure why I was in the younger age group.