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Last Sunday, I was participating in the sprint triathlon Tomatoman in Leamington. This was marking my first anniversary in triathlon racing since this was my first race ever last year. If you read the story again, you will remember that I panicked in the swim and barely survived the race.

After my previous success at the Motor City Triathlon the week before, I was going in very confident, ready to get my revenge in Leamington. I was aiming for a top 5 finish. So I positionned myself in the middle of the group, on the front line of swim start. BAD IDEA… A few hundred meters after swim start, I ran out of breath, feeling claustrophobic in my wetsuit, falling into panic mode. I had to stop many times to catch my breath and try to calm myself without much success. Tried different swim strokes too to get through the swim. Sounds a lot like last year…

By the time I was out of the water, heart rate was racing, and the swim had sucked the life out of me. Despite all my efforts, I had no power on the bike. I was not even coming close to my power targets.

 Not better when I got to the run. I actually had to walk a few times on a freaking 5 km distance. That was weak.

>> RESULTS : 19th / 105  (details)

 Anyhow.. Despite these problems, I still managed to cut a lot of time from last year:

>> 2009 - 1:35:17    |  2010 - 1:13:54   

That’s almost a 22 minutes improvement. The Triceratops triathlon is 3 days later, a chance for me to redeem myself (once again).

My friend Craig also participated in his “triathlon racing anniversary” and did very good, also improving a lot on his time from last year.

Pictures in the album below:

Tomatoman 2010