Crescent Beach Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

Seeded myself in the slow group, as I didn't want a repeat performance of the human speed hump again. I think I went a little crazy at the start, and forgot about the current, so I was zooming along at the head of my heat, but ran out of gas too early before the buoy. Settled the HR and breathing down after the first 600m or so, and the remainder was pretty clear sailing.

More OWS practice. Navigation was a bit of a problem with the current doing funny things - or it just could have been me being cold and tired in the first 10mins...:P

There was a long beach/gravel run from the water to T1, so I brought down my thongs and cruised up in those. Wasn't one of those fancy races with mats and carpet so your footsies don't get prickles...Trying to get the suit off in T1 was a hassle, didn't realise how disoriented I was, or how much the swim had taken out of me, so I fell on my arse to the mirth of the spectators around. Got all my shizzle together after that, and ran in my shoes to the line.

Bodyglide. For suit extraction plus ended up with a bugger of an underarm rash that came back to haunt me in the run.

Challenging course, but not impossible. Definitely spaced out the field after the swim. Missed 2 turns due to confusing directions from the vollies, but nothing a quick U-turn didn't fix, and didn't let it get me down. Got some serious cruise on some of the descents, maxed out at 71kmh. Pretty much played catchup, only got passed by 2 ppl.

More hill work in offseason. Could have been stronger.

First time I have tried the shoes off before T2, and it was awesome. Practiced a few times after work commutes and it was a bit sketchy. So much easier to run thru T2, rack bike, put on shoes, rip off helmet and bang I was outta there...like a freakin pro. hehe

Probably do an extra clean of feet to remove debris etc before the run...got some nice blisters from the sand remaining from the swim.

First lap was a little shaky with the lack of prep I put towards this race, so calves were a little crampy, back was bitchin' and moaning, but I said, ENOUGH! So the second lap was a tad more pleasant, other than the blister that decided to show up and piss on my parade. Had a good long sprint to the finish to end it strong.

Clean feet = happy feet. More prep - speed work.

Got hosed down to remove the coliform and other raging bacteria that was crawling over me from the ocean water, walked, stretched, ate some pancakes and fruit and replenished fluids.


Lack of training time.


Not bad for a self-proclaimed podunk race. Small tri-club operation. Vollies were enjoying themselves and were real nice. Other athletes were very well behaved. Swag bag was pretty poor. The awards etc took forever at the end, so we bailed. Not that I was in the hunt, but sometimes you just like to see how far behind you were from the M70+ AG winner...;) I'd do it again, nice way to kick some mental demons in the crackers and end the season on a high. :)