Buffalo Trails Race Report

5/24/08 Buffalo Trails Triathlon (AKA the Ann Arbor Triathlon Club's Great Kentucky Adventure). 1/2 mile swim, 22 mile bike, 3.05 mile run.

This was to be my first tri of the year and we had a good group of people from the Ann Arbor Tri Club make the long trek down to Maysville, KY. It was not a good race for me. The swim was canceled due the the bacteria levels in the Ohio River being 6x higher than is safe for swimming. The swim was replaced by a .5 mile run to spread people out going into T1. I actually enjoyed the little sprint to T1, coming in at 2:38, I made it out of T1 in :39 seconds and that was the high point of the race for me. 8 miles into the bike leg I was feeling great, biking strong and I had the race leaders in sight. Then I got the first of 3 flats that I would get during the course of the race. After the second flat I wasn't really 'racing' anymore and was just planning to finish the race to get a few MERCERS points for the club. The 22 mile bike leg took me 1:41:09 instead of the <1:05:00 time that I was planning on. So I eventually made it to T2 and set out on the run which went fine, I wasn't really mentally racing anymore so my time wasn't blazing but I put out a respectable (for me) 22:21 and managed to pass a few people along the way. My total time was 2:07:22 which I hope to never see again for a sprint of that distance!