The swim was a run start from the beach, three waves. 39 & - men, 40 & + men and then women and team. We had two minutes in between each start. When my wave started I was kinda in front, not too sure how that happened and why ... Anyway, since I was there I tried to give my best to make sure no one would pass over me.

At first when I looked at the course I was sure that it was shorter than 1000 meters, but I can assure you that after swimming it it was 1000 meters ;)

I swam a little bit over 1000 meters for sure because I had some problems sighting for the first 350 meters or so. After that it was a bit better, I drafted as much as I possibly could during the swim to help me. I succeeded for maybe 50% of the swim, which is not too bad.

The split includes the transition 1.

I did succeeded in my goal of not having anyone passing over me. But I had a lots of trouble to swim straight

Train more to get faster

I had problems getting out of my wetsuit, it got stuck on my heels and it took me some times. I decided to put my bike shoes and run with them because there was a road full of pebbles ( not sure of the translation here, but a bunch of small rock )

Practice more and more to get better at it.

The course is three lap around the lake, every time I go there I can not believe how riding around a lake can be so hilly.

Hills are not my strength, and today's race proved me right sadly. I had a hard time on the biggest hill, almost every time I got to that hill people would pass me and as soon as I would get up the hill I would pass most of them back.

The rain was more intense at that point of the race, go figure the only leg I was hoping that the rain would stop was the bike and it was the strongest. There is one really sharp turn on that course and today it was not that fun to turn it. Pavement was all wet so we had to brake and get the speed down a lot to turn it.

Hills, hills and more hills.

I decided to keep my shoes on again since the road was not feet friendly ;)

Racked my bike, removed the shoes and then put my running shoes on, I had a hard time since I was all wet from the rain.

Transition probably took me around 2 minutes.

I took my race belt and start running, after maybe 2 minutes I checked my 305 to see my running speed just to realize that I AM DUMB ... forgot my 305 on the bike ...

I had no idea of my speed so I just pushed as hard as I could but trying to keep enough energy to climb all those hills. The run went by pretty fast, at least in my mind.

At kilometer 6.5 or so Steve8 was standing on the side of the road, he told me "Go get them, there a bunch of peeps to pass in front of you". I really wish that I could have do what he told me, but I was just trying to keep running as hard as I could to get to the finish line as fast as possible. Sorry Steve ;)

My ITBand injury for the last 6 weeks did cut my training by a lot so I didn't have as much speed as usual today. I was still pretty happy with my time though, I was aiming a sub 40 run, and I did it :)

The good side is that the ITBand didn't hurt at all during the race. Now lets see how it will feel tomorrow morning.

Train more ... again

Not much, I walked around a little bit packed my stuff and left. I had to be at work for noon and it was 11am.


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It was my second time doing this event, last year the duathlon and this year the triathlon. I really love this event, we were around 450 racers today and it was really nice.