Boulder Sprint

Had a good effort this past weekend in Boulder, CO for the 5430 Boulder Sprint. 750m Swim, 26mile Bike and a 5k run. With only 6 days of rest and recovery from my previous race at Boise 70.3 I was surprised how well I recovered, this gave me a good indication that my race fitness is on par. I also came into this race very relaxed, my only expectations for this race were to improve on last years times and not worry about my placement or anybody else race. This kinda of attitude seemed to work out well for this race.

Swim: 11:50
An improvement from last year, not much but it was better. I opted to line up on the far inside of the buoy's and to my surprise I was all alone with only a few other athletes near my bubble. This made for a very clean and bump/bruise-free start to the race. I wrestled only a few athletes  but managed to find good open water, but this might have been the problem. At the time I thought I was spotting well, keeping all yellow buoy's on my right, I even spotted a pack of guys from my wave just a few meters ahead. But it wasn't until someone in a kayak was yelling and pointing at us to turn around....WTF!!!!! I popped my head up for a moment and quickly realized that about a dozen of us young and reckless swimmers were cutting the course..... and not on purpose I will say. I just might need to get my eyes checked next time!!! We back tracked about 25m or so and were back on course....kids!!!!!

Bike: 43:02
Into T1 and out I was, now onto the bike. Not too much to talk about here, it was a fast course with little rollers. I found a good rhythm from the start and kept a good pace throughout, a few guys in my age group passed me within a few miles onto the bike course. So I kept the pace with these guys and kept them in my site. So yeah, that's kind of it for the bike....nothing too special though I did improve again on last year.

Run: 19:09
My biggest goal for this race was to finally break the dreaded 20min 5k in a triathlon. Out of T2 I gave my legs a chance to find themselves and smooth into a nice cadence before I found my stride. I pushed hard checking my splits only a few times. With doing Boise 70.3 last week it made these 3miles seem like only a mile. They went fast. So I came down the shoot with a time of 19:09, I was pretty pumped about this. I know some of you might run this time in your sleep, but hey give me a break. This white boy is SLOW!!! So this was a big improvement and I'm happy with how things are slowly coming around for me.

Overall: 1:17:03  25th Overall, 3rd in age.

Up next for Mua is the Boulder Peak. An Olympic distance with a very talented field both Pro and Amateur. Should be a good one.