Ironman Lake Placid

Great performances by Erin, Dan and Roger at Ironman Lake Placid!

I heard Roger took a nasty spill on the bike so a huge effort for sticking with it and finishing.

Also, congratulations to Erin on completing her first Ironman!

Ironman UK

Congratulations to Coach Pascale and Kim Hooker for completing a very tough ironman!!!!

A special congratulations to coach Pascale for winning her AG and getting a Kona slot!  Good news is that she is going to Hawaii, bad news is that she has to train for another ironman for the next two months.

Mossman Sprint Triathlon Results

Congratulations to all of those who participated in the annual Mossman Sprint.

Mighty North Fork Sprint

Congratulations to Suzanne Parker in completing her first sprint triathlon!

Suzanne wrote: . “I was really happy with my performance finishing in 1 hour 10 minutes. I think the BRICK workout I did with you really helped as well as the OWS practice!”

Pat Griskus Sprint Results

It was a great day in Middlebury for a very fun and challenging race!

There were a number of top AG finishers including Bryan French, Don Stuart, Sue Stuart, and Cara Bufkin!

July 8, 2012 - Maneesh's race report for the Orange county triathlon

After racing the American Zofingen in May, my original plan was to not do another race until Ironman Canada. While I love racing, when I do, I put my heart into it and it takes a lot out of me. Even racing an Olympic distance sets me back a week because that’s how long I need to properly recover. But my big lesson at Zofingen was that I needed a better nutrition strategy for long course racing and I needed to be able to test what I’ve been using in training, in a race setting to see if more changes were necessary. 

Separate from training through this race and trying out my nutrition strategy and new race wheels, I also wanted to dedicate this race to my cat Mooky.  I adopted Mooky in March but he suddenly passed away from liver failure only the day before. He was the cutest little fluff ball and was only 7. He passed away in my arms at the vet’s office so at least I got to say goodbye. But Mook’s short life reminded me to live in the moment … and in the case of triathlon to push through the pain because pain is temporary.

Ok, on to the race. I was pretty tired going in after riding 80mi on Wednesday and running 15mi on Thursday morning.  I wanted to get in a long warm-up to wake up my tired body but didn’t get a chance for anything because the swim was point-to-point and we had to walk a mile to get to the start. And second, while trying to get my old wetsuit on before the race, the zipper broke. After 4 seasons of heavy use, it shouldn’t have been a surprise. At the last minute, as the gun was going off, I got two guys waiting for their wave to help me rip it off and jumped in a few seconds late without it. Triathlon is all about dealing with obstacles, what’s a little wetsuit failure to start the day.

That aside, my swim felt ok. A warm up would’ve been nice but without it I knew I had to start very controlled to not blow myself up early. With a very strong current, I was out of the water in 17:16 after the 1500m swim and in 15^th overall. A poor swim place for me, but with a late start and no wetsuit, not terrible.

Without a wetsuit I was in and out of T1 faster than anyone else in the field and picked up a number of places. The bike course had a short quarter mile section to warm-up before turning out of the beach area and towards the hills. The first 6 miles of this course was uphill before settling into rollers and then coming back into town. A pretty challenging course overall, but beautiful. On the bike I prefer hilly courses anyways since I’m a weak but light rider and that helps me hang with the stronger, but often heavier riders.

Maybe because of the early hills it took a while for my legs to settle into the ride and my heart rate stayed elevated until passed the halfway mark. I tried racing a few guys who passed me early but knew it would be dumb to try and hold that faster pace throughout the ride knowing the run was hilly too.  My legs were also dead from the prior week’s training and I was feeling it on this ride. A 1:17 bike for 25 hilly miles.  Off the bike, in 17^th place and then pulled off another fast transition (overall fastest of the day out of the entire field) to put myself into 15^th at the start of the run.

  

Coming off the bike, my running legs immediately felt great. I wasn’t expecting that but was happy for that as the course turned straight uphill for almost the entire 3miles out before the turn around.  I was telling myself to cruise the first half and go for broke on the way home.  Even at cruise pace I passed 3 guys quickly and they didn’t even try to go with me. On the way back into town and now coming down the hills, I picked it up and my watch was saying 5:40-5:50/mi pace. I passed a couple others as I was redlining it home. Eminem’s “8 mile” playing in my head and Mooky reminding me to live in the moment. I crushed myself in the final stretch but ran out of ground closing in on 9^th place and an AG win.  Rounding out with a 40:59 run, the fourth fastest run in the field and 2:16 overall - I was happy with a top 10 placing.

Overall, I was very happy because the nutrition strategy (racing on Carbo Pro for the first time) worked very well and that too on a hot day. Considering I’d been having so many problems with my swim technique this year, it was also nice to jump in without a wetsuit and feel good in the water for a change. My quads were very fatigued on the bike but on the flats I felt strong and fast.  And the run, that what was the icing on the cake today.  A good test before one last big training block heading into IMC.

Orange Country Newburgh Olympic Triathlon

Congratulations to Maneesh on a 2nd place AG finish and 10th Overall!  

Syracuse 70.3

Tough day at Syracuse 70.3 for Carioto

one of the benefits of doing the results is that I can make comments on my poor performances :)

Stamford Kic It Olympic Tri Results

Congrats to Deborah on a strong race!

Might Moss Half Ironman Results

Great job to all of those finishing the first annual Mighty Moss....lots of penalties for the Trifit team, hmmm

Fairfield Half Marathon Results

Congrats to all of those finishers on this very hard course!  I added Kevin Lamoin to the previous results.