Tempe International Classic Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

I was able to draft for a long time off this guy that I saw swimming next to me. I kept trying to pull away from him but he would keep up...so I decided to slow down and get behind him since he seemed to be sighting good and have a nice easy swim. I think I drafted for about 400m or so and then we rounded a buoy and this guy pushed me out of my way so he could draft...I was on my own after that. It was a nice break.

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Transition was just as planned.

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I had two flats within 400y of each other on my last of 3 laps. The first flat was on the back tire and was a slow leak...I jumped off and hand pumped the tire to rideable conditions hoping that it would last for the next 8 miles. 400y later the front tire blew. I changed out the front tube and considered changing the back while I was at it but then just decided to top it off and take off again. With 4 miles left I had to stop and fill the back tire up again to rideable conditions and was able to make it the remaining 4 miles without having to change the tire (luckily/barely).

Get new rims since these rims seem to be causing so many flats.

A very nice transition but slower than expected...at this point I knew my race was over and I was just doing the steps to finish.

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Could have started out a lot faster but I was down in the dumps with the flat tire issues. By the time I was about 4 miles into the run the outside temp was around 95 to 100. I was dying of heat exhaust and wasn't able to perform.

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Flat tires.


I didn't stick around since I had to go to church right after the race so I don't really know what the post race activities were like...I never even got my race shirt.