cannot comment on rank as they did not give swim splits; there were a number of people in transition, of course, and lots of people ahead of me; my goggles leaked constantly and I had to keep my R eye closed, stopped at least 6 or 7 times to quickly drain the water out

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/9425545962/1

bring goggles that work; I knew they were leaking in my warmup swim but only had tinted goggles with me and I thought that would be worse with the dark coming--bad decision; typical for me in the swim portion of any race

I was still breathing hard from the swim through this entire thing; ran hard up to the transition area through the rocks and stubbed my toe a few times; got to my spot and threw my swim stuff and sat-sock/bike shoe, sock/bike shoe/ wristband/helmet--go, go, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not much really

I looked up the strava bike times to compare-3rd OA and I'm happy with that! my bike was not shifting right and I'll have to look into that-annoying jumping around at the lower end

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/9425545962/3

nothing

I got out of my shoes and tried to ride on top of them during the last 1/4 mile so I could run in socks and quicken it up--it worked; I was still slow getting on the shoes, though

move faster putting on the run shoes; I did not re-lace my Nike Invincibles (yellow) with quick laces-mistake

I did negative split this marginally, but should have been able to push harder, honestly

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/9425545962/5

https://coachmarkwilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/HVTC-Race-3-R...



push harder earlier, this was such a short race and these hurt so you have to dig deep

As usual, I just sit around but since I didn't thrash myself, I felt pretty good and talked with some of the stud Hudson Valley Tri group. Super great to meet 'Murphy's Law' aka Mike B, who won the race (again) and their group had their unique kit on so I knew when I saw it on the course, it was like a target to try to take down since they set the bar very high.. I did try to do my part at volunteering and helped by bringing in the two swim buoys and the two start buoys. They were anchored with ~45 pound weights so I got some strength training in also.


Inability to bring the right equipment (goggles), not pushing hard enough on the run.


Superb race put on by the Wilsons! Mark and Tonya are just terrific at this and there is such support by all the racers. It seemed everyone knew everyone else. Post race included a very nice spread with pizza/bear/soda/water and terrific conversations with the participants. I sat with a guy who did his first tri-came in first in his AG and he is hooked. So was the 12 yo who also did his first and won his AG as well. A great night! https://coachmarkwilson.com/race-results/