My wife Michelle and I just got back from Montauk. What a beautiful place. For those of you who are not from around here, Montauk is not the Hamptons. It's about another thirty miles out at the end of Long Island. No Gucci, no Tiffany, no Glitz. It's just a beautiful place surrounded by the Atlantic, the Block Island Sound and the Long Island Sound. You could live in Montauk and with the races in the Hamptons, you could do your whole triathlon season without leaving home. There are two sprints, two olympics and a half IM. Drive another hour west for the two early and late season duathlons and you've got a great season right at home. Throw in the great surfing, incredible surf fishing for striped bass and you've got one hell of a town. Throw in also the fact that over 60% of the town in state parks and around every corner is another perfect view and man, I need a place there!
We went out for the Montauk Lighthouse Sprint Tri. My first of the year and first since having two knee surgeries. I didn't expect much of a run, but I'm swimming better than ever and my bicycling is coming back fast. We started in the same wave and I drafted off of her for about half of the swim then I lost her. I got out of the water only about 50 feet behind, but had to stop on the beach to have someone get my wetsuit zipper unstuck from my shirt. She was leaving T1 just as I got there. I caught her about half way through the bike but got lost in T2 (hey, it's my first race of the year). She caught me leaving and left me in the dust on the run. My right knee felt great all day but the left one, the more serious surgery performed jan3 was really starting to hurt on the run. Good thing it was a sprint, I've only been running for three weeks. I picked it up for the last half mile and tried to push hard up the hill to the finish line at the lighthouse. I'm not telling my run time, it was even slower that I expected.
The results: Michelle beat me by 3 minutes and got first in her age group. I somehow got third in mine behind two fast friends of mine.
It was a great weekend.
I'm back!
Always a great race with a great race director named Jose. Glad you had a good race today. I actually thought the swim might be canceled due to fog in the morning. I wasn’t there this year but this race in the top ten that I like to do. Last years race had fog in the morning but Jose waited it to lift and didn’t cancel the swim. Good luck with the Knees.
Smitty
Yea, it was so foggy saturday night you couldn’t see anything. Thank God that it lifted. If it had been changed to a duathlon I’d have been screwed. It was so bad saturday night that you couldn’t have even ridden a bicycle on open roads.