NYC Triathlon

I can't swim worth a damn, so I did the NYC Triathlon as part of a relay team—Hannah Borgeson did the swim and Sam Grotewold did the run. It was a gorgeous, cool morning, and we did pretty well for ourselves, taking second in the co-ed team division by less than a minute. We're planning to work on our transitions for next year so we can properly win this thing!

The bike was 40K from West 76th Street, up to West Gun Hill Road on the West Side Highway, then heading south to West 59th and back to the boat basin and the handoff to Sam. I had a pretty good ride, despite losing my water bottle in the Bronx (yes, I should have had two!) and spending a lot of time yelling 'Left' at people. All the participants were traveling in one land of the road, so I was passing the waves of riders who'd left behind me and being passed by the fastest men of the waves behind me.

My ride took just over 1 hour and 11 minutes, which placed me third out of all the women age groupers, and fourth out of all the relay team cyclists. So I'm pretty pleased with how things turned out and looking forward to Friday's TT at Fitchburg.