Make-A-Wish Sea Colony Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

The sand was packed so it made it easy to run on in running shoes. Took my time and stayed in the middle of the pack.

Had a hard time finding my bike. Once I did, the change was easy since I was only switching shoes, putting on a helmet and eating a gu. Mounting the bike was horrible. I ran ahead of some people who mounted right at the mount line. I tried to get going before clipping in but it took a few tries to do that. Not good.

Know where the bike is. Clip in per ususal.

Wind at the back going out but it was real tough coming back. I am not the fastest biker and while I don't get blown away anymore I still don't like where I place in this part of the tri. First year with this course set up and it was great. I wanted to be over 20 but the wind killed that idea.

Not much. Buy a tribike.

Found my rack with no problems. Removed helmet, switched shoes, grabbed a gu and I'm off.

Nothing.

Once I left the parking lot I took off. I had the wind at my back and alot of people in sight. I decided to really push the 1st 5K and hold on as best I could into the wind on the way back. I passed a bunch of people and hit the 5k at 20:30. I knew it would be a lot slower coming back and there were less people to go after. My avg. pace went down to 7:20. I was hoping to have an avg. below 7:00 for the 10k and did that. I was 170th after the bike so I gained 70 spots on the run.

Nothing.

Wind.


It seems like the organizers got it right after last year's train wreck. The ironic part is that for the last 2 years the race was held on a Sunday. If they did that this year, the ocean would have been flat and there was no wind. Oh well- it's always a gamble with ocean swims. This is the 4th year I've done this race and only had to swim twice.