It was a great morning in San Diego. The swim, bike, run conditions were perfect and I got to race with three wonderful ladies: Jody; Cathy & Elizabeth.
The Classic is an Olympic distance race: 1500 meter swim; 40K bike & 10K run.
I had forecast my goal for this event a few months ago at finishing in 02:45:00 hours (swim 0:30:00; T1 0:01:30; bike 1:20:00; T2 0:01:30; Run 0:52:00).
After five months of triathlon training I'm getting to know pretty well how I may perform in a particular race. My time was 02:43:16 although I was 8th in the Clydesdale division (yes I'm still in the 200-202 lbs range so I still qualify - hopefully for not much longer ;) My times were as follows: swim 0:28:01; T1 0:02:55 bike 01:19:10; T2 0:01:17; Run 0:51:53. I should be a meteorologist with predictions like these! I was very happy with my swim and enjoyed the wide and long rectangle course. The bike course was a workout with the steep hill up to the top of Point Loma which had to be ridden twice. The run was flat with a mix of gravel path and pavement.
Elizabeth did a great job beating my time by 1 min 36 seconds; next time I won't take a pit stop for a pee during my run!! Just kidding; great job; I'll put an extra effort in during the 70.3 CAF event in October ;)
I got to say hello and shake the hand of Chris McCormack as he was walking to the swim start. I told him that I will also be in Kona in three weeks time for the Ford World Ironman Championships; the only difference is that I will be a security volunteer and he will be competing against Craig Alexander, Luke Bell and others for first place!!
For those who missed this Olympic event; there is another local event on October 16th "Big Rock Triathlon at Lake Perris". It about 45-60 minute drive on I-15 north of San Diego; here's the website link: http://triathlon.competitor.com/event-detail?event_id=26086
See you at the Group training events and the Mission Bay Triathlon.
cheers! Spencer
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