Damnit. another lost post. Sometimes I hate Blogger.

Here is how I did at my worst triathlon ever.

Class Rank

Overall Rank

Sex

Name

Final

Swim Time

Swim Trans

Bike Time

Bike Trans

Run Time

Swim Rank

Swim Min/Km

Bike Rank

Bike MPH

Run Rank

Run Min/Mile

38

295

240

James Kojo

02:45:32

00:27:48

00:02:33

01:21:42

00:01:53

00:51:36

559

00:18:32

270

18.2

385

00:08:19

262

1706

1064

Alex Tang

03:39:58

00:31:52

00:05:03

01:38:55

00:03:15

01:20:53

1213

00:21:14

1311

15

2073

00:13:02

266

1726

1072

Hubert Chen

03:40:48

00:29:01

00:02:30

02:03:17

00:02:28

01:03:32

749

00:19:20

2163

12

1183

00:10:14

This is the worst I've ever done. The swim felt great, really easy and reasonably fast. The bike is where I had trouble. I was doing ok, until the turnaround. The turnaround came up on me really fast and I was going way too fast because I didn't realize it was coming. The guy in front of me hit the brakes hard and I tried, but I ran right into him. I knocked him over, blew out my tire, and fell. I got a minor scrape and jammed my finger, but I was ok. Thankfully I had bought a new CO2 cartridge, and spare tube in preparation for the race. I got a new tube on and used the cartridge and that went pretty well considering that I had never successfully used CO2 before(I had tried and failed on a prior ride). So I got the new tube on but it only lasted a couple hundred yards before I had another blowout. This is typical when the tire around the tube is damaged or something gets caught in the tire. In this case, there was a puncture in the sidewall from the accident, so that tire was gone. I waited a couple minutes figuring out what to do because I had no tire, no tube(or patch kit), no CO2. Thankfully, Tango arrived shortly and gave me tire, tube and pump. So after losing about 30 minutes I was back on the road, but I had also lost all my adrenaline. I totally failed the 2nd half of the bike and the run which was a brutal run adrenaline or no.