We had a great time at Yuba this year. I competed in the Olympic race and two of my brothers Jeff and Mike and my sister Jerri Ann competed in the Sprint race. The weather was great and the water was nice. We all had fun. Also, Jerri Ann and Mike took first place in their age divisions which was awesome. There were 44 men total that competed in the Olympic distance race with 9 in my age division. Milliseconds chip timing has me down as 16th place overall but one of the guys ahead of me only ran the 3.1 mile course and didn't do the additional 3.1 out and back for the Olympic racers so this bumped me up to 15th place. Swim: time of 28:43. I was 6th out of the water. I felt pretty good on the swim. I think the new De Soto wetsuit helped out a bunch. It's thinner up through the arms and doesn't seem to tire me out as much. The water was really calm and with only 62 racers in the Olympic there wasn't a lot of bumping and hitting into the other swimmers. T1: time of 1:29. 10 racers faster than me on this transition. I debated having my shoes left clipped on the bike but decided against it because I hadn't practiced. No major problems everything went smooth. Bike: time of 1:11:59. I also felt really good on the bike. (8 racers had a faster time.) It was a bit cold for the first 20 miles but then warmed up. I was a little nervous about the hilly course and took it a little easier than I could have. (I wanted to ride the bike course before race day but I couldn't make time to get down there.) When I got off the bike I was feeling good for the run. T2: time of 2:28. Painfully slow transition with 58 racers having faster transition times. This is mostly due to the lace-up brace I wear on my right ankle. I need to do some strength training with my right ankle and see if I can tighten it up. For some of the shorter distance races I my try and race without the brace. Also, because I had the brace on I didn't run without socks. This is something I also want to try. Run: time of 54:45. I felt good on the run. My min/mi average was 8:50 which was Ok but not the greatest. 20 racers had faster times. Running is the area where I have the most opportunity to get faster. I hope Hawk can teach me something. After the race and later that day I wasn't in too bad of shape and felt pretty good. It worked out, in that, I'm starting the Ironman training on Monday and I wont start out all sore and beat up. |