Caine Halter Family YMCA Triathlon - Triathlon

i was the only guy wearing a speed suit for the swim but it saves me 3-5 seconds per 100 meters so on this race easily saved me an extra 10 seconds and when we have to run a long distance to TA there is almost no penalty for wearing it. the swim was getting bunched up and i was 36 to go off so they really slowed down the entry times, this combined with the slow girl behind me left me with an empty lane for 3/6 of the laps.

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really smooth TA, no gu this time because the course was so short.

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i was not expecting hills like that, being a coastal triathlete I am used to flat sections but averaging 20.5 mph is fine. I used the aeolus wheels because I was anticipating some climbing. I pulled my feet out of shoes about .25 miles early when I confused the ymca and a church. Some of the slower bikers caused accidents on the laps as the race went later. i was lucky and avoided any problems. I used bontrager aeolus wheels for this race.

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My shoes had not dried completely when I last raced and had some mildew smell, so I tucked drier sheets into the shoes to help the funk, I only pulled 1/2 out of each so when I tried to put shoes on in transition it required me to pull them out and put them back on.

get drier sheets all the way out

I chose to run on the spongy path during the race because it felt good, after the race I learned it is slower to run on that than the hard path next to it. The run was pretty shaded and having 4 drink stations on the run was great, I pretty much only had water thrown on me to keep me cool. There were 2 steeps spots on the run that made it tough.

run on path not sponge.

ran 1.5 miles caught up with my wife and my friend jason


hill training, T2 shoe prep, spongy running surface


Good short course race that brings out a lot of fast upstate triathletes. Could use a few more portapoties. The body marking line was really long like most setup event races nowadays because they only had 2 people marking (bring your own sharpie if you know how to mark). Award ceremony seemed to be really late into the morning, kicking off around 10 with a race start time of 7 and the majority of people finishing around the 1 hour mark. The DJ for this event is the best in the world and should be used for all setup event races in the upstate! Bike leg only measure 8.4 miles by GPS not the advertised 9 miles.