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I did the bike section of a local triathalon as a part of a team yesterday. It went okay. It was windy day, sustained 20mph plus gusts, but only about 2 mi of the course were straight into it, and since it's a down-and-back I got 2 miles of tailwind and the rest was just cross. My goal going in was to break 34 min, but my legs just didn't quite have it. I ended up with a recorded time of 38:00, but the exact seconds will remain a mystery, because I'm pretty confident the student volunteers just recorded a "close enough" time since I had a small crash directly in font of the finish. The route had to be changed from previous years due to construction, and now the finish was a left hand turn directly across the oncoming lane of the people starting the race. And the start was staggered in groups of 6 due to limited pool space. Because of this, there was a racer on a head-on collision course with me as I tried to turn into the finish and dismount. I squeezed on the front brake a little to hard and ate pavement at mercifully low speed and he avoided disaster. Got away with nothing but a little road rash on my hip and wounded pride. Still mad about the stupidity of the routes. The bike and run routes all criss-crossed in about the same place the middle of the street, and the roads weren't closed for the event leading to a lot of near misses with cars on the day.
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Aug 31, 2020 13:40
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