ericmulk wrote:
milesthedog wrote:
wore the shirt under the wetsuit and while it was wet on the bike, it was fine. won the small sprint tri and enjoyed the day. Thanks!
as to the person asking how you forget something for a race.... it must be nice to be so perfect!
You won the race overall??? How many people total and what were your splits???
Small, very low key race with amazing scenery - had really been wanting to check out that area north of Covington and the mountains were pretty amazing. results:
https://static1.squarespace.com/...4422/prelim_bath.pdf swim, bike and run posted on strava. didn't get to warm up on the bike so legs were a bit tight providing a clear ceiling, and if I wanted to bang out more power, I would have needed that warm up. hit the swim pretty hard and enjoyed the head-current and chop on the way back. Good small destination race with the Homestead resort, small cabins and b&b's, and the GW national forest all around with loads of waterfalls.
nit pick: the swim and bike distance appear to change some from year to year, so it's hard to compare times. this year, the swim was 80m extra and in addition to having some people biking on the wrong side of the road (their far left; out and back bike) and one guy with his bike upside down to change a flat in the middle of my right/his left side of the road as I was headed downhill; the bike was .3-.7 mile more than in previous years looking back at rides from the race on strava. Looking at the fastest time ever biked on the course, I found the person's strava activity and selecting the uphill section on the way out from both of our strava activitites to where he turned around (but where I kept going due to the longer course), we both held 20.7mph, so assuming we would have ridden the same speed on the way back downhill with nobody riding towards us on the wrong side of the road, my time could have been two and half minutes faster on the shorter course used in previous iterations of the race, which would have set the course record by more than 90 seconds. The course appears to have been the same as in 2013, when one of my swim partners won it in 1:09:43. A lot of folks don't care about that kind of thing, but if a race has been around for more than a decade, it's nice to compare times and aim to set a course record when previous years' competition isn't there to race head to head.
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