Greenville Triathlon - Triathlon

Despite trying to make my goggles tight, I still managed to completely flood my left goggle when I dove in. I finished the 1st 50m then paused at the wall to correct my goggle situation. I passed 5 swimmers during the 400m and got passed by none. I swam 9 seconds faster than last year and that was mostly due to practicing lane transitions.

keep goggle on my face better

pretty solid t1, made the run from the aquatic center, got the speedsuit off and got helmet on. i had prepared for the flying mount but decided to abandon it when I looked at the long run from transition to the mount line and it had a good amount of debris on it from the downpour the night before. so I put shoes in in transition. made a great running mount onto the bike but almost crashed because the guy in front of me almost wiped me out (he was struggling mightily with his bike mounting process). t1 was 41st overall and 4th in age

evade other triathletes

the bike course was damp and had a few spots of dirt washing out onto the road but given the sharknado that occurred the night before the course was in very good shape. I took the corners slower than I normally would because I didn't want to go down, but it was probably over conservative. I also trailed the brake hard on the downhill at mile 7 on the hard corner because I was having flashbacks from 2008 when I saw a guy endo into the tress on the other side of the corner. I had one small issue shifting chain rings for about 20 seconds around mile 10 but was able to work it out. the back half of the course which has most of the slow steady climbing was a nice surprise because this section had tail wind the whole way back. I took gu's at mile 1 and 14.5. I rode bont aeolus wheel which I had bought earlier this year specifically for this course and the climbed like champs. I also shaved the arms and legs for a free 10 watts and a was wearing the specialized tt2 helmet instead of the lazer tardiz; it felt much faster. Also, practicing hills in Laurens SC helped out a lot.

pretty much perfect bike and my fastest ever on non-flat terrain.

very smooth transition. the newly acquired inov-8 tri-x-treme 275 shoes were tremendous to get into. I had an extra anti-fatigue set next to my shoes but it decided to not hang out (probably kicked it during t1) 14th overall and 2nd in age.

not lose my anti-fatgue

tried to keep the pace as hard as possible for a long as possible, wnr through 3 running mantras. prefonatine's this is a good day to die, IZZY's dumb song, before finally settling on it's just a hill get over it. the 1 mile section of xterra (4 .25 mile trips) was muddier than most years due to sharknado but they luckily had filled in most of the washouts from previous year earlier in the week so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. hill repeats the week before proved to be a great help. the new inov-8 tri-x-treme 275 were amazing to run in despite having bought them thursday night. i got 1 mile of running in the prior to the tri; despite this my feet had 0 hot spots on them, the drained water and mud as good as advertised, and accelerated fast, but felt like slippers (I would recommend any triathlete buy these shoes at greenville running company). I finished the race with a head first slide into the finish line, the grass was very damp so I figured might as well do something awesome.

nothing

did an interview with a reporter from the greenville news about why triathlon is great! got some coke, water, and pretzels. bought some merchandise from the season ending close blowout (this happens every year), then went over and talked to Jason from ORR wheels while my friend bought a set of carbon wheels from them.


pretty much nothing, my best race in greenville 3 attempts and this one was a little better than 4 minutes faster than 2008 and 2013 attempts.


Great race once again this year. There were two water stations you passed through twice on the run, which is unreal for a sprint course. The pool swim was very smooth and non chaotic due to the large lanes and one way traffic. The bike course was nice and rolling on mainly smooth roads with tons of volunteers at every turn. The run course is a bit sketchy with the service road. Overall a great race and i won't hesitate to do it again. This race brings out the elites big time, so you absolutely need to be ready to race your best race of the season here.