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Another one in the books… With an overall time of 2:29:26, I secured the second position in my age group…Yay! If you don’t already know this about me, I am usually the person who takes 4th place in my age group, so it is a happy day when I place within the top 3.

The race itself was well run and more organized than I would have expected. The layout of the park was such that two transition areas were needed, so logistics become a bigger issue. We first setup T2 with our run gear and then rode our bikes (with wetsuits & swim gear in bags) up to T1. Honestly I half expected to get to one of the transitions and not have gear, so the fact that everything was there was wonderful.

A couple of notes about my efforts: I had a pretty good swim, and my bike ride turned out pretty good despite some wind gusts, but my run was decidedly awful. I’m not sure if I expended too much on the bike or I had my HammerGel at the wrong time, but I had no energy left during the run. I was simply in survival mode, which shouldn’t happen during an Olympic distance tri…In any event, I had a good finish time and am now looking forward to the Maumee Bay Tri this next weekend. The courses for these two are fairly similar, so I should be able to find out if I was just having a bad run day or what…Link to results here.

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