I raced my last tri of the season one week ago on Sunday at TBF Racing's Granite Bay Triathlon. I had a lot of fun and overall I am pleased with result. My time (1:53:40) was a little over 11 minutes faster than last year, which I attribute to my brother's coaching (Eric Palmer Endurance Coaching). I finished 10th of 26 in my age group, about 1.25 minutes behind 9th place; and 65th of 244 overall.
Overall results here.
Division results here.
I felt like I did a good job sighting during the swim, and really payed attention to the other people racing. I cruised and true to form my swim split was very good (0:21:23). I was 2nd in my age group after the swim, and had the 20th fastest swim time. My swim time was 1.25 minutes slower than last year. I attribute it to two things: Last year I went very hard on the swim, and the swim course was probably a bit short last year due to the low lake levels. This year the lake level was much higher.
Out of the water and charging the beach
Once we started the bike, we were mixed up with the duathletes and it was very difficult to determine who was in your age group. I don't feel like I worked very hard on the bike, but I still shaved almost 6 minutes off last year. I had the 49th fastest bike split (0:41:41), and came off the bike 7th in my age group.
On the bike just out of T1, and putting on my gloves
It felt very hot on the run and yet again I struggled. I was over 7 minutes faster than last year with a run split of 0:50:36, but I still did not run faster than 10 minutes per mile. I was close, but yet again I could not break the 10 minute per mile barrier. My average pace was10 minutes and 7 seconds per mile. Three more people from my age group passed me and I finished 10th in my age group. I finished hard and gave it all I had on the day.
Baking in the heat, and trying to hold it together
A fun time, and a good result. TBF never disappoints.
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