They advertise this as the fastest swim in triathlon! Maybe if you are in the beginning waves, but to me that was a long-assed tough swim. I don't think the current helped much, I was watching the boats that were moored and they had almost started to turn the other way, so I thnk we had almost slack tide. The good part was that all the other waves must have beat the jellyfish to death, because I never hit one. I thought I was having a pretty good swim, towards the end I had caught a lot of the swimmers from the earlier two waves, I got kicked a couple of times by swimmers breaststroking, but I manages to have a clean swim for the most part. I never saw the guy who had the heart attack, he was gone by the time I got there.

Get younger so that I could get an earlier swim wave:)

It was a long run back to the transition area, I started a slow jog and then started to feel my calf so I walked the rest of the way in. I'll bet it was 1/4 mile to T1

Run in

This was the hilliest bike course that I have ridden. I knew there were hills going into it, but by the time we turned around in the Bronx I was looking to see if my brake was rubbing, flat tire, etc. That being said, I loved the course, cool to ride on the highway and through a toll booth. The Hudson on one side, the city on the other.

Not much, my plan was to take it easy and not put too much strain on the calf, looking at my time and seeing how I missed about 5 weeks of riding I was very happy with the bike. Came of feeling good.

Walked the transition, again trying to save the calf.

I had prepared myself to walk the whole way, which I was not looking forward to. I walked all the hills, shuffled along the flats and just kept my pace to where it did not hurt too much. I could feel it when I tried to pick up the pace.

Run the whole way.

Got through the finish, they were handing out nice cold wet towels which felt great.


Not being able to run.


I would recommend this race to anyone. It was very well organized, great volunteers, cool course. We went up with 12 people from out tri club so it was a great weekend overall. I think part of it for me was that I did not think I could do it because of the calf injury, so just being out there for me was great.