Yesterday, I completed the last of my summer fun–a sprint triathlon in Petoskey, MI. The results:
500m swim: 13:02, pace: 2:37/100m
T1: 4:44 (this included a 400-500m run from the water to transition area)
20k bike: 40:18, 18.5mph (this had some big hills)
T2: 0:53
5 mile run (~8k): 41:53, 8:23 min/mile
Overall: 1:40:48, 2d in my age group (9min behind leader); Overall: 18 out of 40, (20min behind leader)
The swim was nice and enclosed in a harbor. I had a decent pace considering I hadn’t swam since Colorado. The pace was actually near to the pace for my Oly in late June. The bike had some big hills that dropped me down into the single digits for speed. The run was longer than the usual sprints (and only about a mile less than an Oly length), so I started off pretty slow and picked it up once the path went into the trail with a heckuva kick on the last mile. I’m happy with the pace for the run as well. That’s it for this season for me. I’m going to winterize the bike and take it easy to settle in.