Traverse City Triathlon - Olympic Course - Triathlon

Probably my best swim ever. I swam at a very good effort, pushed the pace and felt like I was working as hard on the swim as I usually do on the bike or run. Very happy with this swim even though the auto calc says I took over two minutes per 100. Navigating was good. Drafting was good. Felt good.

need to stop putting on socks for these shorter races. Maybe for all races.....

This went well. My legs were not all the way recovered from last weekend but I was able to push a reasonable wattage and control the huge power spikes on the two monster climbs.

This is definitely not an Olympic PR course.

Second fastest T2 of the day. Fastest was from a guy who took over three hours to finish. But, man was he fast in T2 :)

Nothing. About as fast as I can do this without sprinting.

Went well. I wasn't sure at first how this was going to go but it went fine. I got to an uncomfortable comfortable pace and kept it there. I was able to count the number of people in front of me on the out and back and figured that I was in ninth. There was so much distance between me and number eight that I thought there was no way I could move up. However, on the "back" portion of the out and back I saw the first female (who started 5 minutes after me.... and I was pretty sure that I didn't have a 5 minute gap on her at that point). So, there was no rest for the wicked and I just kept chugging. To my surprise, I actually caught two of the folks in front of me, one of them (who was also in my AG) in the last half mile. I almost caught number 2 in my AG in the finisher's chute but ran out of real estate. Another quarter mile and I think I would have gotten him. Next time.

I wound up beating the first OA female by 15 seconds, running two minutes faster than her. I guess it is good that I kept the hammer down as much as I could.

Still tired from last week.


Love this grass roots race. They can accommodate up to 500 racers and I wish they would get a few more folks signing up to keep this one alive and well.