Buffalo Triathlon - Olympic Course - Triathlon

Water was cold during warmups but once the race started I was comfortable, even got a little warm. I got some water in my left goggle early but it didn't bother me much. About a quarter into the race I stopped and fixed it. I felt I swam close to the buoy line. Very little contact and what little there was occurred very early. I felt strong on the swim especially after the last turn with over a third of the distance left. I did get a cramp in my left calf with 500 yards left. This has happened before but not at all last year. Overall I was a bit surprised my time wasn't a little better.

You never know about the accuracy of the distance and I was better in my AG than normal. It was my 3rd slowest swim in 6 years of racing Buffalo.

Swim faster.... :-) and lose the cramp

No real issues in T1, a some trouble with wetsuit on left heel but probably less than 10 seconds. I thought wearing compression socks last year at my last 2 tris fixed the heel problem. It's a long run and a big TA so it does take some time.

1st in AG, -18 secs. It was my 2nd fastest T1 in the 6 yrs I've done Buffalo.

Not much

I felt I had a good bike, I don't think I ever got passed on the Oly section maybe 1 or 2 x on the early sprint section

4th fastest Buffalo bike but only by 36 secs so pretty consistent

Cramp was not an issue on the bike

Not much, Some light winds with us early and against late. I passed a lot of people on the hills due to good gearing and staying aero while they were out of saddle working way too hard.

All of my Buffalo T2 are between 1:30 and 1:34 except the year it was really cold and I put on a fleece for the ride. Very consistent.

2nd in AG +10 secs

Not much

I wore arm warmers on the bike and took off the right one and held it in my hand. I rolled the left one down to my Garmin but did not try to mess with pulling it over the watch. I probably could have with no issues.

Very pleased with my run, this was my first ever sub 7:00 pace on a Oly 10k. I stayed with a 38 yr old the last 4+ plus miles of the race, pulling ahead of him at the end. It helped to have someone running my pace. We talked a bit on the course and I thanked him for the pace setting afterwards.

I noticed my left calf at the beginning of the run from the swim cramp so I ran a little gingerly for a bit then I kind of forgot about it. I felt it a little at the end of the race but nothing like it was going to seize up just some tightness/tenderness.

Fastest Oly 10K ever so nothing.

Drank some water, got my stuff and went to the car with Barb and changed. By the time we got back only food left was cookies. I think they had hot dogs this year. Brought back some Mt Dew so I was good. 1st place in AG got a Bontrager pump, 2nd got Tifosi sun glasses and 3rd got socks.

I would have been 4th in 50-54 and 5th in 45-49 AGs so my time was decent.

Award pic here. Scroll down to 55-59 http://www.tribuff.com/awards_13.htm#olympic


Good bike, great run but sub par time on the swim despite feeling I did well. Swim is my limiter. If I'm going to do well at Nationals, I need to improve my swim time. Time for a swim coaching?


Buffalo does a good job for the size of the race. Disappointed no food left for me but I could have grabbed some before going to car so my choice. Jerry got thru the awards in a good fashion. Got my pic taken with AG podium finishers and it should show up on race web site. Talked quite a bit afterwards with Lynn the 2nd place guy in my AG from Bismark.