Devil's Challenge Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

"Swim" HA HA HA. I swam maybe 150 yds at most. Being 6'8, when I dove in on the way to the buoy, I hit the ground. Then I dove in and swam the last 10 yds? to the first buoy, stood up and jumped past it and swam maybe 50-75 yds. I felt and saw people around me and could not gain a groove, hard to do in the cold waves and tuff to stroke when my arm on occasion would hit lake bottom. So I stood up and walked and got ahead of everyone and dove in again. I felt them catching again, so I stood and lunged forward and walked and got ahead and dove in for about 15 strokes. Saw people catching me and then realized I was moving FASTER than eveyone just flat out walking! SAD and very ashamed to admit it but I WALKED half the swim and took 2nd in my wave, 10th overall, by only a mere second or two to another BT'r, XH2OSkier, who at 7 ft had the same great walking technique in the end.

Would like to swim more but taking 2nd by walking!?!?!?! Why change anything! The course was the same for everyone so it is not like I cheated, but I feel awful and am still laughing at this segment. How can one not laugh! 10th overall of 747!

Godd navigation and breathing and everything cause I was not winded and could see everything clearly. but as for swimming -

Slight issue with suit, not bad. Having the knee brace on under really helped. Wished I got going fatser out the transition. Came in 2nd from swim and left about 6th to 9th.

Not worn the wetsuit, I did not need it since I walked the swim! But still improving -unfortunately I fell behind

This bike segment was difficult. The first hill out the gate separated everyone, and it felt like 5 minutes to get up it. This was the only time I was in first gear. On other hills I did go into 2nd but tried to stay in third more. The first 5-6 miles were difficult to climb but Ifelt I did fairly well. On one hill near the turn around point, I actually passed a car, green pickup with an elderly man in it. He was going to slow so I called LEFT and scared him a little, then blew past him. After the major climb I was ready to roll. From there to thte end I knew there was only the last hill to really contend with. Actually on one hill on Neuman I hit it perfect and flew up as if everyone else was standing still. Great feeling. No one passed me on the bike today. I was in wave 10 and caught people in wave 4. * I passed alot of wave 2 and 3 but they were the novice waves.

Try to go faster in areas down hill, just could not keep up pdealing to the speed of my wheels. Wished I climbed the early hills harder.

As i was told SPIN!!! plan for the winter and get some bike shoes to clip in with. That is for the winter

Quick, rack strip gear and run.

Nothing really it was fine.

I think I did all I could. I knew this would be the last race of the season and wanted to put all things on the table. I did set PR for min / mile can't complain there.

Try to run a little harder and faster, just limited by the knees!

walk drink and check on little man. Waited for the wife.


Knees as always. but obviously improving on the run. A little unhappy about the bike, should have been better - work on hills!


I wish the swimm actually would have included more swimming!

Wish I could have hung around longer, but little man was not doing well (he ended up refunding his food from the day but he is still so cute!)