Lytle Park Triathlon - Triathlon

Pretty good swim for me. Passed 6 people in the pool. Breathing was good. Left lens of my goggle took on some water and that kinda slowed me down. I was out of the water in 5:15, long run to transition over asphalt and grass.

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Slow transition, running in through recently cut grass I had to spend some extra time removing grass clippings from my feet. Put my socks and shoes on grabbed my bike and exited transition. Again this week there were a lot of people riding through transition, unlike last week someone was telling them to get off.

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First bump that I hit leaving town my RH bar-end shifter popped free of the aero bar and was hanging. That was a nice way to start off. Passed a few people on the bike and never got passed so that is a good thing I guess. On the out portion we were into a decent headwind.

After the race I took the bike to the shop to have new aerobars installed and a full tune-up. 2 mechanical issues in the last 2 races. Don't want anything like that happening next weekend.

Pretty average T2.

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Good run for me. Reduced my mile pace by nearly 1:45 over last weekend. I obviously don't think I improved that drastically in a week, but I do think I figured out how to better pace myself over 3.1 miles.

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Stretched, packed up transition. Ate a few pieces of pizza.

Here's where it got interesting... the awards. My name gets called for 1st place in the Clydesdales division and I go up to get my medal and they give me the 2nd place medal. The guy that won the 40-44 AG gave the 2nd place in AG his 1st place medal and took the 1st place Clydesdales medal instead, even though he wasn't registered as a Clydesdale. The race director does nothing to fix the situation and tells me "tough luck" Am I wrong to be a little irritated by this? I did hear someone else tell him it was a dick move... he just laughed it off and said "oh well."


Other than the race director letting people change divisions at the awards it was a good race.