Cambridge Practice Triathlon

Today was the practice sprint triathlon with the good folks from Cambridge, hosted at Horn Point Laboratories, same as we did last year.


It was a great day for it with flat water and perfect weather! Unfortunately I'm just getting over this nasty cold and about ten minutes into the swim (after stopping to cough about three times) I realized I was kind of dizzy too, so I decided to call it a day and just take some photos of the other triathletes.

So I took a whole album of photos and put them up here.

Notable among them was Jim C., WHOSE BOSS DOESN'T KNOW HE READS MY BLOG AT WORK. Hi, Jim!!! Love your wheels! HI JIM'S BOSS!!!


Also take a close look at the awesome paint job on this bike in honor of the Flying Tigers - very appropriate for this Memorial Day!


I wish I had been able to get in a better training day prior to Eagleman, but it was still fun to see everyone and get out for a brief swim!

One brick to the good

We had a strong Cambridge Multi-Sport contingent out for the 10K in Cambridge today for the H.O.P.E. 10K for Mental Health, and perfect weather for it, ~2 mph wind, 67*F. I kept thinking I'd love to see Eagleman weather like that, with the Choptank River like a mirror, but alas, it's still over a month away.

Great to see everyone and link up a few more names with faces! It was a nice friendly event and a FAST AND FLAT running course out on country backroads, all except for maybe that last ~0.3 miles looping around the building when I was dying for the finish line!

Thanks to Bill for his sponsorship of this event. Thanks to Chuck for leading 4 of us on a nice little 20-mile bike loop before the race, despite his P.I.T.A. (pulled muscle).

I'm hopeful that I can run as well off the bike at the Columbia Olympic-distance triathlon in 2 weeks! I ran 1:02:20 today, which I think is pretty good for me after a 20-mile bike. (OK, it's a darned good time for me - I was planning to run it easy and started out that way, and still came in within 2 minutes of my PR in my 2nd-fastest 10K to date.) I'm doing the math now, hoping I can do the brutal Columbia 10K run leg within 6-7 minutes of that, under 1:09. I did it in 1:14:11 last year (darned hills!). Then to take off 15 minutes total off my time from last year I need to find another couple minutes on the swim and somehow speed up about 8 minutes on the bike. Maybe find another minute in T1 if I'm super-lucky.

If all that falls into place perfectly I can (maybe) demolish that 3:30 barrier by a few seconds! We'll see. . . .