140 days
since I last raced. After Busso I took some time off. My body was done; 3 Half
Ironmans, Half Marathon’s, bunch of fun runs and all the training to complete
2017 Race Goals. I did some open water
swims and I left my wetsuit and home. I enjoyed riding my new Roadie, I slept
in, I smelt the roses as they say.
In February
Fat December and January was over time to get serious for Alcatraz. Brick Sessions
where back I started to run again. I always had in the back of my mind to do
another Tri before the Summer Race Session was over. Challenge Sprint was in my
thoughts but I wanted to wait to see what the weather would be like. 3 weeks
out was not looking good, 2 weeks better but still not great. 10 days out
perfect, 7 days out a cracker. So I registered, this was going to be
interesting. The day before the race I did little training session, road to
Mordy and quick run off the bike. I jumped into the Bay at Half Moon and swam
out to the yellow pole and back. I
charged the bike, and started finding all the Tri gear. It all got washed and
put away. Race Belts, caps, Trisuit, etc.
Race
morning I showed up and went to rack my bike and I had forgotten to put my
wrist ID on which I fixed quickly. Rookie mistake but I hadn’t raced in a
while. It was cool but no wind; those of us racing the sprint went down and
watched the Half guys come out of the swim before we headed back change and got
ourselves ready.
We went
down to the swim started did a warm up and lined up. The Horn went off and way
we went. I felt good and strong as I came out of the water I was right next to
Michelle my EX. I said hello and got where the F did you come from (apparently 2
mins behind according to the wave start)
I ran into
T1 got the wetsuit off, Helmet on grabbed the bike and run out of T1. After
mounting my bike it was time to ride. The bike course was crazy, lots of
drafting and very very fast. I came back to T2 felt good, now the run. The run
while ok was not great. Reviewing the data was very happy with the bike my
fastest average ever. For the record my next best was Busso.
Happy to do
a race, happy to complete it as a warm up.
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| Setup Ready Roll |
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| TA Crew ready to race |
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| Looking the goods |
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| Almost home |
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| Done, glad to race again |
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| Supporting with the crew |
Time 1:58:39
Swim 0:12:28
T1 0:02:40Bike 0:55:17
T2 0:03:08
Run 1:58:39
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