TriBriGuy wrote:
Nice work, Bakker. I'm guessing you'd have gotten your prediction if not for the initial weather.
Thanks!
There was no "inital weather", it was tough all day, rain or no. 2nd bike lap was very foggy - the Million Dollar View was worth about $.10 cents, a penny/ foot of visibility. Run course went from wet to slick to swampadelic.
Nailed 3 out of 5 lap split goals:
R1 - goal <35, actual <35
B1 - goal <1:30, actual <1:29
B2 - goal <1:35, actual <1:35
R2 - was slowed by having to stop 2x to tie my shoes, once each. Both on the long carriage road descent after the aid station.
Certainly wouldn't have hit my goal, but I'm sure that cost me a chunk o' time.
R3 - mailed it in. Walked both steep climbs, and wasn't running particularly fast anyplace else. Just wanted to be done at that point.
T-times - sucked. Wet stuff is hard to put on and take off. Blah.
One plus was hitting 51.6 on the descent - that might be a new land speed record for me.
Another one was successfully recoving my Joule after it ejected on the 2nd descent, Kyle and I went back later and managed to find it.
float ,
hammer , and
jog