So I had signed up for this race a couple weeks ago, just a short sprint the Sunday following my last A race of the season. I mostly signed up to donate money to the tri club, and was thinking it was about 50/50 odds that I’d actually be up for racing. I have taken this entire week off of workouts, but still decided it might be fun, and I wanted to get back up to UD to see what’s new on campus. Anyways, the race had two separate races, the MCWTC (or something similar) which is basically the college tri teams division, and the open division. This being the inaugural year, there were only about 40-50 participants per race.
The swim was a 500yd pool swim done on rolling starts. This means I got to do the whole swim in one lane shared with only one other swimmer. It was nice to be able to just swim freely. After the HIM’s 500yd came quickly, and transition was just out the door so I was off on the bike before too long.
The bike was a 12.4 mile route, mostly along the Great Miami river. I thought my legs just weren’t going to show up to play at first, but once I turned realized it was just a headwind. I didn’t feel great on the bike, probably the lack of workouts this week and no real warmup pre-race. Either way, I got back into T2 in about 33.5 minutes (haven’t seen official) and was quickly out on the run.
The run was a winding 5k all through campus including climbing the one substantial hill to the freshman Stuart dorm in the first half-mile and again in the last half mile. I was hurting at the tops of the hill climbs, but was able to recover on the downhills. I felt like I was moving pretty quick, but have no idea of the time.
Overall, my finish was 1:03 and some change, which was good enough for 1st place in the open division, 5th fastest OA time of the day if you include the college race. So, technically I got my first OA race win, which is pretty cool even if it' wasn’t loaded with competition…either way, a fun bonus race.
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