more racing

I looked at the cycle pei website this week and was surprised to see that there is another duathlon on sunday in Ft. Augustus. I am going to try to do it. Mt time trial bike is in the shop getting a spoke fixed and a new tire so I will use my roadbike. I will be interested to see if it feels any slower. How i do in these races depends on which of the other triathletes show up (ie Jamie, Billy, Darcy etc...) The roadbikers (no offence to them) are generally not much of a threat as they are not used to running at all. the exception to that would be Cory Jay because of how good he is at cycling. I am also going to do a ten k on saturday and i am looking forward to that. If I could improve my 10 k times in the Olympic distance triathlons by a couple of minutes, i would do a lot better in terms of placement.

Mooseman Triathlon weekend

I got back from mooseman triathlon last night. it was a fun weekend with Billy MacDonald, Jamie Nickerson and Greg Smith. We had a lot of laughs and it was fun seeing Billy experience his first triathlon. I got a bit of a surprise to find that they had changed the bike course and made it EXTREMELY difficult. It was more difficult than the bike course at Lake Placid. There were very steep pitches on narrow winding roads. It was so dangerous that they had people physically standing to mark the corners of downhills and to tell you when to slow down. They had speed limits on the downhills and if you went over the speedlimit you were DQed. so, the only thing that could make it worse would be pouring rain, so it rained hard for 5 hours. I took it very easy the first time round the course and a got a bit more confidence the second loop. I decided it was more important to me to finish safely than to have a really fast time. I felt good throughout and had a good swim and run. I felt better than last year although my time was 20 minutes slower. The concensus was that everyone's time was about 20 minutes slower. Last year I 202 out of 660 people; this year, I was 305 out of about 1000 people so its pretty much the same placement. I am looking forward to doing the local roadrunner races and local PEI and New Brunswick races for the remainder of the summer.