Pumpkinman Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

By far (1000+) yards my longest open water swim in a race to date

Since I broke the 2:00 per 100 barrier, not a damn thing.

Transition was on a rough asphalt road and was uphill at least 100 yards to my bike.

Put my chip under my wetsuit so I could get the suit off a little faster.

Ok, I now know the reason the tri is called Pumpkinman, It's because (apparently) The Climb from Hell, Hells Hills, and This Ride Sucks was already taken
This is just a brutal bike course, a 6 mile sustained climb is NOT what the doctor ordered.

The Sprint distance next time

Ok, here is where a decent race fell apart. I went to tug my Yanks! tight and pulled the lace right off. Both sides snapped in half. As the laces are elastic they proceeded to unlace themselves and I was finally able to stop this process about halfway down my shoe. So I had 6.2 miles to run on a half laced right shoe

Not break my laces?

The race sucked, I started out with fairly solid legs and was looking forward to a decent run, but the broken lace quickly caused hot spots that were more or less unbearable, I'd have to stop and walk until the foot cooled off and then would run again. I finished, but not the way I wanted to.

BIG HILLS on the bike, broken lace on the run


If anyone tells you to do the Olympic at Pumpkinman, walk away slowly because they really aren't right mentally. The cool was actually seeing Chris "Macca" McCormick in my race. Yeah he was probably showered and on a plane home by the time I finished, but cool none the less.