Sodus Point Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Whoa baby. There were 4 footer coming on shore. There was no rhythm and often the wave would merge and form a very hogh point. In close they would slap you around. Wanted to start up middle but ended up one back form front. The bonehead tried to walk out further through waves. I got fed up and drove into a big one and swam between two guys. It was close to a brawl for some reason. The waves pushed us allover the place. When you came up to sight sometimes you could see everything sometimes just water. 50 yards out you could get some stroke going. Spit out a lot of water. got someone on my side who felt it was necessary to stay there and get hit with a couple return stroke. I would move left and he followed. get off me Mack would you. Took one short break to get bearings. 150 yds out started to run into women whom left 5 minutes earlier. they were OK but it was going to be a long swim for them.
Navigation was poor. Had to break left hard to hit the first buoy. Basically swan under it. Did better on the second one. Kinda forgot which way to go. Followed the crowd. Hard to sight right into the sun. Made is OK. Skimmed the buoy again. Headed for shore. Better way to deal with the waves. Drafted a little off someone and had to go around some of the first wave swimmers. Thought Mike must be having fun. Got towards shore with better sighting. Did well coming through surf. Must of caught a break in the action. Could stand in low water before I knew it. Hit the beach and ran to the transition through the sand. They time that part I managed 38 seconds. Heard them announce Mike Moreland behind getting out after me. Sweet he always beat me. The swim went much better then I thought.

Not much. Maybe muscle myself up to the front. Maybe some OWS in Lake Ontario. Learn to run in sand.

My insole got caught on my toe so had to take shoe back off. My arms were like stuck in the suit. I could get them off my wrist. Stipped them off my ankle no sweat. Getting better at T1. If it wasn't for the waves I would have skipped the suit. I couldn't figure out number or no number. All we got was our hand marked, with a pair of tiny 77 for me. Skipped it.

Practice pulling my arms out.

I wanted to make this a good bike. We did a brick on Tuesday and I pushed hard on the hills and did some heavy pushing in the big ring. I ran well after that and figured OK let's try it again. My quads were on fire but kept going. Was passed on the uphill by the carbons. But well I guess by forty people or so. The curse of swimming well. Really need to bike better. The way out was headwinds. Felt I was pushing well. There were a few short steep hills that slowed me down some. Came into transition well. Great crowd cheering everyone. Volunteers did a great job out on the course. Spent a lot of time in aero position, trying to get under the wind.

Some day I will learn to just fill the bottle with water. Weight duh. felt good. Avg 18.5mph not much else,

I was 25 feet in from the bike return. Hit is well. Got shoes on standing up and tied. No socks! Got a drink of water and sip of coffee. Got hat on and thought that's it! What am I forgetting. Well my race belt but to far on course to return to get it.

Put my race belt on my neck when I take my helmet off.

I needed to feel like I did for Tuesday training. Little different. kept trying to stretch it out. I did run the whole way. Two briefs walks at the rest stop. It was pretty sweet to see the three and four year old picking up cups. They did a good job. I saw Mike coming in on the bike a 1/4 mile into the run. Knew you may soon catch me. had about 4 minutes on him. I'll take it he generally hooks the fish on the run. I hot the mile mark and felt good. Felt a little slower then I should. Kept waiting for the pidder pat of Mike. I know that sound well. Paced off a girl for a while. Came into the uphill again. There is something about doing the course once that makes the second time go better. Mile 2 no Mike. Hit the downhill before the turn to the finish. tried to let is go. Hit the flat and put everything I had left into increasing cadence. Still no Mike. Turned the shoot time 1:33:08, yes minus five minutes under 1:30. Got chip off and turned to see Mike right behind me. Sweet run for me probably the fastest 5K in a tri I've done.

It might of helped to stretch a little more before we started the whole thing. Mike got me a new BT jersey and it's a little small so I felt a little restricted.

Nothing. Water and talk. I felt good, a little calf cramps but nothing bad. Mike and I walked to the lake, picked a hot dog and stuff on the way. Stood in the water to cool sown a little. return to transition by way of the food tent. Checked our times and headed home.


Best tri so far. I beat my goal by close to 2 minutes. I failed to make Mike puke. Still a goal though, he does it so well. I need to lose the weight to help on those uphills.


I have never thought about doing Sodus due to the swim. I'm glad Mike brought it up. It was my third to get my USTA ranking. Waht made it fun was doing it with Mike in my AG. I guess there was a bike craxh on one of the leaders. He may have hit a pothole. I heard they airlifted him to Strong hospital.
Mike and I are one for one so we'll have to see how the Finger Lakes Tri works out. Maybe then we'll both puke.
Great little race limited to 200 participants. Plenty of volunteers. Lots of cheering crowds.
I felt bad for the newbies and poor swimmers in that rough water. I am glad they didn't cancel. Won't blame them if they did. I hope to be able to do it next year too. Mike you are on for Finger Lakes.