Mountain Man Triathlon - Olympic Distance - TriathlonOlympic

Altitude and lack of training caused significant breathing issues, I could never catch my breath. Swam over half of it backstroke

Warm up and train at high elevation

Spent a lot of time in transition to recover from swim, but overall had a good transitin

had lots of bike problems. Right out of transition I had to stop for about 20 minutes to fix tire that had popped out of rim. took some time to diagnose and fix the problem. After getting back into a groove I had problems with front derailluer and had to get off bike to fix. Heard lots of noise and felt like it was rubbing for the rest of the race.

Prep and test bike better

Tough course with 400 feet over 1.4 miles. I ran up the entire hill at a slow pace.

Get in better run shape

Not much, just grabbed some water and walked around


Swim (breathing) and bike mechanical problems.


This was my worst race ever. I went in to it as a training race, but the swim and bike problems made it frustrating and less ideal training.