Jackson County Triathlon - Short Course - TriathlonShort Course

Lots of shallow water but elected to swim instead of walk as much as possible. Very heavy traffic with large groups of long course coming around for 2nd lap just before we started. Hit rocks with hands a couple times near first bouy. Swam straight inside line right along bouys. Swam into and got kicked by many, many people doing variations of backstroke and breastroke but I was maybe near front of my heat and passed most obstacles with a couple strokes. I was not up for a brawl in the water due to quirky back, very crowded swim but generally relatively minor contact. A jetski did a tight turn near the first turn bouy but fortunately I saw the waves when sighting and timed strokes and breathing to not get dunked. Was very carefull to swim until pretty much everything was dragging bottom then slowly stand up and start running to avoid further tweaking back or hamstrings, success.

Not much, I haven't swam much for a couple weeks but was hitting the pool with good frequency (although short duration) for a month or two before that. Really pleased with how well it went, being wetsuit legal certainly helped though.

Again very carefull getting out of wetsuit due to back, had some minor sticking on ankles.

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Lack of consistent biking really showed here. I've been getting a 2+ hour weekend ride but no or very short midweek ride so didn't expect much. The first hill seemed to last forever, not too high of exertion level it just kept going. The new crank performed flawless, I was slightly worried haven not thoughoughly tested that I might be prone to drop a chain, may have raised seat too much, or shorter cranks might be too short. I'm not one to try something new in a race but with poor training and a tweaked back I figured there wasn't much to lose, but all went well. Jim caught me about 4 or 5 miles in, I heard the woosh, woosh of a disk coming up and new it was him, of course he put the hammer down for the pass and I tried to hang but it wasn't happening today.

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went for the wrong rack in transition (loop can be seen on bikes GPS trace) similar yellow towel in same spot 1 rack over caught me, spectaters laughed at my loop. THen took sweet time getting bike into rack and socks and shoes on.

hurry up more buit recurring theme here, carefull movements to keep back happy.

First mile split had some stationary transition time in it but generally a good negative split, started out a little creaky off the bike but loosened up well and felt great by the last mile. Just a little slow.

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mountain dew and BSing


lack of training in weeks leading up to race, tweaked back to a lesser extent


really well done race, excellent venue.