06 August 2012

Lake Placid Mini Tri

Well I was back in Lake Placid this week for vacation and High Peaks Cyclery is still running their mini-tri series.  So naturally I wanted to give it a go to see if things have improved since I last did it.  The short answer is yes but by exactly how much I don't know.  For the first time I DNF which I will go into below.

Swim 8:06 / Bike ~36:30 / Run didn't start

Swim was good, I went at about 90% and still 2:30 faster than when I did this before.  For me this was a good test of doing an open water swim without a wet suit.  Given my result I will be skipping the wet suit for the Marshman.

Bike was good and bad.  Bad because I had a flat - my first on the road, ever.  It took me 15 min to change 5 of which was due to figuring out the CO2 cartridge. My actual bike time was the ~36:30 which was good because I was averaging well over 20mph.

Run by the time I got back to transition I was mentally out of it and decided to call it a day and get back to dinner with my family.

I was pleased with how I did, when looking at the final results I was disappointed the race didn't go better because I think I would have won the 30-39 age group.

Link to when I did this 4 years ago.

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