Queens Harbor First Sprint Tri

This one was a learning experience, One of my customers hooked me up with the entry to this after it was sold out because they were the the title sponsor. It was a bit weird doing a pool swim for the first time, they started with a time trial style start where you posted what you thought your ET would be for 300 yards. This is a problem, I would think if signed up for this thing in the first place you would have a roundabout on how fast you swim. I put in a pretty accurate swim based on my 300 sets from the pool. Long story short, the girl who put her time faster than mine and started in front of me was much slower than her estimated time. On the bike, things didn't get much better. I recently started training with power before this race so I had a game plan of staying around 220 watts and was almost perfect on that, finishing at a average of 218. The issue with this was, I purchased a new to me Bontrager disc and had gotten one 15 mile ride in on it the day before and everything seemed okay. During the race my power was in line but I just didn't have the speed I thought I would have with the low wind conditions but I just went on. After the race a buddy of mine said to check the wheel to make sure it wasn't rubbing anything, sure enough it was rubbing the entire race and rubbed off almost all the lettering on the sidewall of the tire. Even with this I had the second fastest bike split so I was excited and bummed at the same time. I neglected my run leading up to this race so I knew it was going to be rough, it was. I roughed through it and finished 4/120 overall and first in my age group. It was a different experience but it was well staffed and attended (sold out at 120 competitors) and Ultimate Racing did a nice job on setting everything up and moved the awards right along after the race.
300 yard Swim- 5:14
T1- 0:29
7.5 mile Bike- 19:13
T2- 0:55
5K Run- 25:43

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