It was a pool swim, so no frills lap swimming with a dude I split the lane with, and he totally lapped me. This guy came in Second overall in my age group and beat me by 4mins.

There were also no splits so I don't know how I faired against the other competitors, oh well.

Nothing, I paced well this time and got the exact time I put down for pre-seeding.

Pretty fast T-1, I had the shoes rubber banded on. I had a few disasters while practicing the flying mount so I decided to place my right foot on the shoe before slinging my leg over.

Go faster?

IT WAS SOOOOO HOT OUT!! ok so the water bottles I had put on my bike just 4 heats before mine went off were already hot, so nutrition aka drinking NUUN sucked. I drank it but it wasn't thirst quenching at all.

There was a pretty good head/cross wind that I felt I was leaning into the entire time. Also made it hard to make up time going one way or another because it was rarely "at your back."

Another problem was the fact I haven't been in my areo bars much at all, its kind of hilly in Colorado so I'm usually sitting up. So my hamstrings and ass were hurting because I was in aero a bunch.

I wanted to Avg. 20mph on the ride and came close, but with the wind it just wasn't in the cards.

There was water at the bike turn around, I just dummped it on my head to keep cool.

Not much, I pushed pretty hard.

SO FAST!!! Luckily most of the bikes around me were from much earlier heats so I had some nice clear space to just throw my bike up by the seat post and rip off my helmet. slid on the shoes, grabbed the fuel belt bottle (which was hot as hell) and the race belt and was off. Shoved the bottle in my shirt as I put on the belt.

Nothing, it was smooth and fast

Holy god it was hott out!! It was around 1pm by now and a scorcher!! I had my fuel belt bottle but that was worthless because drinking hot liquids sucks. I started out pretty quick but realized that there was no way in hell I would be able to keep up with the guy who came out with me, and was in the heat after me (oh yes he crushed the bike, but I somehow caught him in T-2? when he passed me a long time before.)

So I settled into a painful pace and just hoped for the best. Halfway mark was 11min almost exactly, which is nice because I wanted to break 22mins for the run. I grabbed 2 waters at the turn around, dumped one on my head, tried to drink the other but couldn't because it was in a plastic cup and splashing about festively so I just dumped it on my head.

The second half of the run was just a suffer fest. I was in a lot of pain and wanted to walk so bad, but kept telling myself, just 10 more mins of pain, just 8 more mins of pain, just 5 more mins of pain, etc... Stomach craps were pretty rampid considering the heat. I tried picking it up a bit in the last 1/2 mile to catch this guy from the heat before me but I just didn't have it in me and he was too far away.

ahhhh get more base miles in training so that a 5K doesn't hurt so bad. I'm putting below average just because it hurt so bad, even though it is my fastest 5K of the season, beating my last race.

I walked around for a bit...does that count? did some streching too.


just need more base miles. no need for speed work this early in the season.

Oh and somewhere on the run I pulled my ass. Yes my ass, how? I don't know but my left butt cheek hurts.


It was a good little community race so I didn't expect much but I had lots of fun. This is actually the biggest race in Nebraska, can you belive that? They had about 400+ with all the relay teams. I must say that the Race Director and everyone from Nebraska is just soooo nice!! Especially since I was this random kid with a mo-hawk from out of town. I had people offering me their back yard to camp in so I didn't have to camp at the park!! Everyone was so nice I would travel 10 hours to go do this sprint. I just love the small town races because its an awesome mix of first timers and some pretty fast guys.