Pitch Pine Challenge Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Good swim

So hopefully this is the first and the last time I miss a turn during a race. I was in first coming out of transition, but of course Nate the beast came up and caught me on the bike, as expected. I kept him in sight for a while, but he did get out of sight. I came to an intersection and I thought we were supposed to go straight. There were 2 volunteers out in the road and neither of them were pointing at all so straight made sense to me. As I rode by them, probably got about 3 feet from them, they didn't say ANYTHING! I assumed all was good until a couple minutes later when I woman rode up in her car next to me and said "You're going the wrong way!" My stomach kinda dropped, but I turned around and headed back to the course. At the point, I thought about just stopping, but knew I had to ride back to transition anyway. I thought about it the whole time and really wasn't sure what I was going to do.

Not ride about an extra 1.5 miles!

When I got to transition, I was pretty disappointed and still hadn't decided what to do. I took my time and actually thought I was going to just stop. However, my wife was there and she said, "what are you doing?" so I decided to get back to it.

Still was distraught on the run, but I pushed pretty hard. Ended up having the fastest run overall by over a minute.

Pretty disappointing day, but I'm glad I finished. I'm most disappointed because I didn't get to battle with Nate. I think he still would have won the race, but I could have at least made it interesting. Nonetheless, congrats to NEMS for getting 2nd in the team competition and Nate for taking the win!