Naperville Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

4 swimmers went of every 5 seconds. You set yourself up in order of your expected finish time. (ie like a marathon). Set my self at the 9-10min. Guess the people ahead of me underestimated THEIR time. Spent the mojority of the time trying to nav. around slower swimmers. Seemed a bit long of a course.

set myself in an earlier finish time.

very odd set up. long run to T1 from swim. getting to bike out involved a very long run out of my area, trying to dart between racks in another area set perpendicular to our, and around to bike out. not much of a way around a long t1.

not mess with my race belt too much (my friend put my number on my belt while I was doing something else setting up), since my number was upside down on the belt! (she snapped it into the bottom holes in stead of the top!)

Clipped in easily, just getting up to speed when "damn" a guy with a reflective saftey vestin an XUV, pulls off the side of the closed (by continuos metal baricades) and directly across in front of my group of about 5 bikes. People yell, he backs up, 3 go through then he pulls BACK in front of me! (he's now facing the barricades!) I slam on the brakes, swerve around the back of him while (not my usual)Im yelling at him! Can't believe no one crashed. Rode hard, continuously passing a few hundred riders. 2 lap course.
nice flat course!

have someone take the guy in the SUVs keys...or keep him in a choke hold and away from the racers! Otherwise, bike strong, felt good. VERY windy!

still have an upside down race number! Gel as I ran out onto the bike course, put hat on while running. Was long run back to rack from bike in. Nice and close to run out!

not much!

actually took my race number off the belt, and reattached right side up while running! (no small feat, getting those little buttons to snap on in the right place through the little holes- success!) shins and feet felt really tight first mile, then ok. Really tried to push, ran well. Tripped on the brick path about half mile from finish, almost face planted! Walked through water stations.

have race number right side up before race! otherwise, happy with this run!

went back out on course to run last mile in with Deb (poor girl, she missed lap two on the bike...but she did the run anyway!! Nice choice) Had to wait about 1 1/2 hrs for awards ceremony. It was cloding up, getting even more windy!


race was as expected (run sl better than expected!)


LOTS and lots of volunteers! Lots of high school age kids yelling support all over the course! REAL Orea cookies at the finish! (no chocolate milk though) Really glad I decided to add this race on a week ago, raced with Deb. We did our first tri ever together here 14 years ago. (different race, same site!)

not sure of overall place yet, or how many were in my age group. (weird posting of results, based on the strange time trial start...listed by clock time...then your actual time was at the end of the row) Will wait for on line posting, then add info later! oh yeah, Naperville still has a boat load of rocking fast athletes!!