Broome County Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I don't know what really happened with this swim. I had some new goggles, AquaSphere, that partially came off while dolphining at the start. That was a bit annoying but didn't slow me down much. The course may have been a bit long but mainly I just need to get my a$$ in the water more. I was hitting some poor girl in the back of the head in the first 100m, it turned out to be my new OW swim buddy. There were a lot of swimmers in this race so it stayed crowded for the first few hundred meters before thinning out. I caught someones feet after a while and cruised. The leader (Kieth Murray) was 100m in front of me at the 1/2 way mark. That blew my mind. I was going to have some serious work on the bike to catch him. :)

Train more!

This was horrendous!! I have to find the time to practice transitions!! I didn't swim in my tri top because of the pockets and drag. I came out of the water, got to my transition area and could not get my darn shoes on! That threw my game plan off. I put my aero helmet on and realized that I didn't put my shirt on. I tried to put it on over the helmet, got it over the helmet but trying to pull the shirt down over a wet body wasn't happenin'. I threw the shirt down and started running to the exit when I realized I didn't have my race number on. I turned around, put it on and finally got out of T1!! It had to be close to 2 frickin minutes! My kids reminded me that I said a few things in T1 that I probably shouldn't have. Oops!!

PRACTICE TRANSITIONS!!!!!

My legs were definitely feeling the riding from the previous day. The hill exiting the park took a toll and the legs were screaming! I did manage to pass 2 people on this short but steep hill.I got into a pretty comfortable cadence going up the first big hill and cruised it. When I crested the top I pedaled down the backside and really gained some ground on the 2nd place guy. The next hill I pushed a little harder and I just flew by the 2nd place guy but still couldn't see Kieth. I wanted to be close to him at the turn around but my legs were tapped pretty good. At the turn around he had about 1/4 mile on me, I could see him about 1/2 way up the final climb when I was at the base but when he crested the top he was gone. I hit 44 mph on the way down the hill, slipped my feet out of the shoes and rode into the park with my feet on top of my shoes. There was some rough spots in the road coming into the park and I bunny hopped (No thumper comments please) the cuts in the road then I hopped off my bike and ran full speed into T2.

No much. I felt it was a good bike for how tired my legs were.

This was one of my better transitions. I love my Lock-Laces for quick changes. I went sock less figuring it was a 5k that was mostly on trails. I think I was top 10 on this T2. I'll take it!!

Nothing

The run was good. I felt pretty good coming out of transition. I came out of T2 in second and could just see Kieth cresting the small hill leaving the park. When we reached the turn near the dam I saw Kieth a couple hundred yards in front of me across the water. I yelled out to him "KIETH!!!! WAIT UP!!!!!" He looked at me but wouldn't stop. I told the volunteer that heard me that he's a friend and he'll wait for me at the top of the dam. ;) He didn't! Unfortunately when I got the the other side of the water I could see who was chasing me. One was Peter Ronco, I great triathlete that did IM Switzerland last year and missed Kona by 10 seconds!!! He's a runner! Uh oh! Another was Mike Grygus who swims the Monday OWS with the group I swim with. He's been training hard and rocked the bike and swim! I got to the turn around in 3rd place and slapped Kieth's hand as he went by. I don't catch people on the run, someday maybe, but not in a sprint. Peter passed by me and he was moving! He ended up 2nd. Mike pushed me to negative split the run and hold on to 4th place. Thanks Mike!!

Nothing. It was a fun race.

Rode 45 minutes home after chit chatting and eating at the race.


Bad T1 and poor swim performance.


It's a very good local race that gets bigger each year.