Rumpus in Bumpass International - TriathlonOlympic

Had a good swim. There were some fast guys in the wave so the start was at a good clip and with a good sized group. Sat on some feet for a long part of the swim and was with the same group most of the way around. The guys up front did a really good job navigating through the previous wave.

Not much on this swim. PR for this distance.

Ugh. Well, everything was smooth til I started running with my bike, then I realized that the chain had somehow bounced off to the inside. Got up to the road and stopped to fix it (outside of T1 mat). And as I stopped my right shoe fell off. Not sure how that happened, either. Wrestled with the chain, gathered up my shoe and put it on and then got moving. Comedy of errors - not sure how the hell that happened.

See above.

5th AG, 31OA

I rode pretty well. I went through a swarm up bees about a quarter mile into the ride. 6 or 8 of them bounced off of me, only one actually hung out and I was able to brush it off my arm before getting stung. That freaked me out! Got up to speed after the time spent on fumbling around on the side of the road and went to work. Both laps were right at 31:30. Second lap had to keep my head up and work my way through riders on their first lap.

Not much. Time is a tad deceiving cause I was on the side of the road for a minute or so at the start.

This was pretty clean. First shoe took a second longer than normal just cause there was grass stuck on my feet that I didn't want on there.

6th AG. 47th OA.

Nada.

Struggled a bit for the first mile or so. Then I got going a bit better. The first out and back was tough on loose gravel - handled it way better the second time through.

Hung around the race site. Chatted with some friends.


Not bounce my chain when running through transition! Otherwise, I'm happy with a couple minute PR and had a lot of fun kicking off the season with this race!


New venue was nice. Run kept things interesting!