New Brighton Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 2)

Thanks for the tip about the hill Emily, I did just what you described, and it was nice to run into you this morning. 

Was this supposed to be a triangle shaped swim?  I remember it being one last year.  It seemed like the second buoy that we were supposed to turn at drifted and made it more of an out and back swim, possibly making it longer.  Anyone else think this?  Or maybe I cut the course

And again, my bike computer and Garmin have the bike short, and the run long.

I dont know how ok he was, but he did get hauled away in the ambulance.  Hope he turns out ok

The results are up at:

http://www.frontrunnerusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/newbritriresults2011txt.txt

I've got the bike going.  If the run and swim could match it I'd be doing even better.  Wish I would have had a chance to meet up with a few of you.  Nice job everyone.

Hated to hear about the bike accident.

It was a pretty good day overall to race! Fun to see some of you out there...

Jeremy straight up owned the bike course!!! Good job man:-)

Thanks for the kind words guys.  I think it is impressive that the top 8 Clydes came in 93rd or better out of 362 total (of which 252 were males) participants.  As Nate, my temate and clyde, says, it is great catching and passing all those skinny people.

A friend also told me last year that: as long as you qualify for the Clydes, you should race that division.  It refutes the myth that we are a bunch of out of shape, slow people who get a "special" division.  I've tried to diet out of the Clydes but can only get down to 220 and once to 210, but was so dehydrated that I cramped the rest of the day.

To be fair, I knew what Don Schmeichel did last year, and when I saw him show up, I knew I had to put down a good time to get a shot at that top spot.  I guess you can race a little scared.