Black Fly Short Course Tri - TriathlonSprint

I went into this race thinking I knew I could beat yesterday's swim time considerably if I push it. So I went out hard thinking...last year I did this in just over six minutes. What took me so long yesterday!?

The first 150 was very good. I was cruising right along. Made the first turn to the left all right, then the second turn is only 25 feet or so away. This is when the first person was in my way. Right next to the buoy doing the breast stroke. And this guy had to have been nine feet tall. I just had to wait it out until he was by because there were so many people. As soon as I made the turn I was by in in two strokes or so. For the next couple hundred I sighted every other stroke. This is where everyone bunched up yesterday, so I kept picking a different line to squeeze through. I was doing all right, only slowing a bit here and there to wait for an opening. Right before The next buoy a guy came out of the left right under the person next to me. He completely crossed our path and I was kicked in the face hard. I was momentarily stunned and had a dizzy/warm sensation on my face and hoped my nose wasn't gushing blood. I pushed on and had to wait again at the next buoy for people to move. I ended up going right under one side of the buoy and sprinted for the finish....and waited for people on the ramp up to the timing mat. I beat yesterday's time, but was not pleased over all.

Don't go by last year's time....obviously the course is different or the timing was incorrect by a minute.

I was glad to see I'm improving on my transition times...not much else here. If I could run fast through transition, I would be psyched!

This bike was tough. My legs were burning almost right away from the previous day's race. I was making good time on the downhill. I was trading places with a 65 year old guy. He was CRUISING! I kept having to hit the brakes when he passed and got in front of me to prevent myself from just getting sucked along in the draft. I literally didn't have to pedal because he was a bigger guy.

Didn't get passed at all on the downhill except by this one guy. At the tur-around to go back up the hill he dropped off the back and gradually a few of the smaller guys passed me. I held my watts as steady as I could. The race leaders with higher bib numbers passed me on the uphills like I was standing still.

This course is not 15 miles like the race website says. It's 16. Everyone in transition had within 0.1 of eachother and it was all right around 16 miles.

Not much. Getting this power thing down is helping.

I tried to push it a bit through this transition and ended up with a pretty good time.

Nothing.

There is something seriously wrong with the timing/distance/and pacing of this race. I'm sticking to the numbers that my watch gave me because there's NO WAY I ran sub 8 min. miles. Mapped it out on mapmyrun and got the same distance as my watch too...so let's go with that.

Either way, my legs were heavy and I couldn't push myself until the turn around. A friend of mine was up ahead and had a higher bib number so he was running towards me at about the 2 mile mark. He had taunted me yesterday as a good runner that he would catch me and I sprinted by at around 6:00 pace and said "your ass is mine!" Later he told me he that I Macca'd him and was in his head after that. Hilarious either way because I slowed back down right after I passed him.

Just stop being a pansy and push harder.

Jumped in the pond to cool off.


Just more experience running hard with tired legs.


Again...post race food was nasty. The clam chowder was good, but the burgers/veggie burgers were bad.