Lake James Triathlon

Perfect day for a race! And a great place to have it! Many improvements from last years race, not the least of which was about 8 degrees cooler. I had a terrible swim, my sighting was quite bad. And on the last 300 meters I couldnt see a darn thing because of the sun. Should have worn my tinted glasses, but they tend to leak...

I came out of the water fourth in my wave and jumped on my bike. After a couple miles I felt great for some reason. This was a lot of the same roads as the May Day biathlon a few weeks ago, in which I felt awful on the bike. I averaged about 2 miles an hour faster today than I did in that race. This was a very challenging course, but man was it beautiful!

I came into t2 with what I thought was a pretty good lead, and stretched it out some more on the 3.2 mile trail run. It felt like a completely different race from last year. Shady and cool. I crossed the line first, and coming a few minutes behind me were Aaron Major and Kelly Droege who fought it out for second and third, with 21 seconds separating them! Karen Brazinski took the women's race, congrats to her. Thanks to all the sponsors and volunteers, it was a great day at the lake. Also, thank you cycle wright for the first place awards! This is a fantastic course, hopefully more people will join us next year!

Shout out to Pat Rimron. Sorry you were not able to race man! I have a feeling it would have been a close race between us, as it always is!