Tyson Wieland Racing

So I've had a pretty good summer of racing as a whole in my mind. I've had a few times where I would have changed a few things, but no races that were "bad". Nationals and the Super Sprint were rough, and by default two races with in a couple hours of each other should be. However, I could have thought through exactly what I was getting into before the race instead of just banking on my endurance to make doing two races back to back easy. To go along with the double a few other factors were at hand in my race results. Normally Nationals has naturally been my goal peak race of the season, but this year was more about the spread throughout the summer. I wanted to perform at every race I could, and not really focus in on one. So with such a great summer under my belt and cross country season already underway nationals kind of got put on a back burner. The week preceding the race I had cross country camp in northern WI, so I Friday I just had to drive down to Milw...

My training on the bike and in the water for age group nationals was quite minimal. However compared to Hy-Vee 5150 National Championships it was pretty large, with cross country in full swing I had to focus on running and hadn't swam or bike for 3 weeks. So it came as sort of a relief when they announced it was being cut down to a sprint Triathlon even though I love the added distance usually. So the day before the race was getting back on the horse right before the derby with anytime to really seeing what my fitness levels were in each discipline. I did this with Connor Dilger at the race venue, Beautiful downtown Des Moines at Grey's Lake/Waterworks which I train at all the time. So you could say I had a home field advantage. The ride goes pretty good, my legs move smoothly through the pedal strokes. We get a solid ride in and take our bikes to the bike check in, something I have become familiar this year since moving out of the Junior Ranks. After the ride we aim to go swim...