Challenge Quassy - Half Course - Triathlon

Made the first turn and BAM I was blinded by the sun. URGH that was an awful feeling to just kinda swim blind. I picked some people to pace off of and hoped they could see. I swam a little crooked.

Guess I better work on my OWS.

Not my best transition. I knew I blew the swim so I wasn't really hurrying in transition. I just kinda took my time making sure I had all my stuff.

So the course was hilly - I had ridden it once before and felt like I didn't ride it all that bad but I was ready for it to be over. I dunno I feel like my cycling legs haven't come around yet this year. It's certainly been the most intense training I've done in prep for IMMT - eye on the prize, though, right?

I lost 10 minutes between the 2 pee stops - good, bad or other it is what it is. I have a bunch of people telling me to just pee on the bike. No thanks. LOL




I need to do more training where I watch my heart rate and get a feel for what effort I can really sustain over the longer races. In sprints and olys I just go all out but I know I can't do that here so I probably don't hit it hard enough.

Pretty good transition for me :)

Did I mention this course was hilly? Right out of the gate, mile 1 was STRAIGHT UP. Oh well....just keep running...just keep running......followed by some rollers and then right into the sun! I will say Challenge had great aid stations - fully stocked and the volunteers were awesome.

Starting out on course 2 (the Oly course from the day before) was a downhill that you would eventually have to run back up. I figured that was the bad hill at mile 10 everyone warned me about. Well it was NOT. I came around the corner at mile 9 and looked up and thought it was a joke. Really? OK here we go!! Just keep moving forward!!

I really try NOT to look at my Garmin during the run unless I'm curious about something specific at a given time like "what's my speed right now?" So I really didn't know how I was doing on the run. I just wanted to finish! When I finished I was pleasantly surprised given the hills - I'll take the 2:35!

Very pleased that I finished the race feeling pretty good. Definitely not dehydrated LOL and my stomach felt fine.


First (and probably last) time at Quassy but Challenge put on a great event. The staff and volunteers were awesome!