Rotary Pineapple Man Triathlon - Triathlon

Great swim for me, fastest to date at this race! Went out quick and caught a nice draft to the 1st buoy then I lost him in the cluster. On the long portion tried to find another set of legs but the two I did find would shift into breast stroke, wtf really. The 2nd guy I end up swimming over his right leg and arm. I was about half way done so I moved over to the small buoys and swam a nice straight line to the 2nd turn. Drafted where ever could pushing the last segment to the pier stairs. Started our with a slow jog on the pier but was running at a decent pace by the time I got to the T1 mat.

Not much other than fight to stay onto the legs I was drafting at the start to the 1st turn. I really should put a bit more effort into training and times will drop more.

T1 was ok, I was off to the right side so had a bit longer track than some others to the exit. Had some issue getting my right shoe clipped in and delayed getting up to speed for a bit.

Not much, wish I had a video of it to see what could be improved at the rack if anything. Over the time is only 3 sec slower than my fastest for this race.

Wind and some rain. The wind and rain on the bike didn't bother me a bit, it helped me stay nice and cool. The wind was just off-set enough to be an ever so slight tailwind down and opposite on the way back. I wore my HRM on the bike this year to keep myself away from redlining like I did last year that hurt my run, kept it at 160 +/- which is low Z4. I got caught in a heavy downpour about 1/2 mi or so before turning back onto Oak St but the nice thing was that the wind picked up and shifted a bit to ESE and had a nice tailwind before and back down Oak and in from there.

Nothing, stayed to the plan and didn't over cook the legs.

Took long enough to put on the running shoes and then grab all my wearable's and left putting my visor and belt as I was running out. Flying dismount was perfect, was catching two guys coming down the chute into T2 but they were didn't boggle the dismounts to cause a mess.

Nothing

I saw the clock leaving T2 and knew I had a chance at a sub 1:20 if the run held together. Legs felt good right off but my GPS watch wouldn't lock on at the start so I said screw it and ran my feel with no idea what I was doing. Caught and passed a neighbor before 1 mi and passed 3 guys in AG between 1 and <3.2 miles. After each one I was "running scared" so they wouldn't catch me! Some rain around 2 mile mark was real nice and was able to stay focused all the way in.

Nothing, pace goal was 7:45 and blew that away with 7:28.

Talked with some other athletes at the finish area then found my wife & friends.


What else, more SBR training! If I do Syr 70.3 next year I should be in great shape for this event.


Plenty of post race food and beer (all free). Much better crowd control and early body marking & chip pickup line was well organized.