Great Acorn International Triathlon

Today I did the Great Acorn international triathlon, which was a 1500m swim, 40K bike and 10K run. The weather was perfect, 72 degrees, clear sky's and light winds. The water temp was 74 degrees. I started in the forth wave with the old guys (40-49 age). The swim drills I've been doing are paying off because I felt very comfortable on the swim. I actually caught people that started in the second wave. I was the third person out of the water in my age group with a 26:26 swim time. My T1 transition could have been faster but I forgot my little bike bag and it took me a few seconds to get situated. Plus we had to run about 100m before we could mount our bike. My bike was the best bike I have had all year. I felt awesome on the bike and my time/average shows it. I'm very happy about my bike time. I had the seventh fastest bike time in age group at 1:05:04. That my friends is a 22.9 mph average. My T2 time wasn't much better than my T1 time, especially with that 100m run from the mount/dismount line. The run was pretty much like all my runs, smooth and easy. I ended up getting passed by two guys in my age group during the run and I just couldn't muster the speed to run with them. In the end I ran 42:45 which was the fourth fastest run. However, today was just not my day. I ended up getting fourth in age group missing the podium by one spot. The good news is that I had a great time and look forward to racing again next year.

Have a good weekend!