Here’s Cathy, my tri buddy from Bay Area Multisport, demonstrating our job for 2.5 hours this morning.
“Speedbump!”
“Speedbump!”
“Speedbump!”
“Speedbump!”
We were positioned about a half mile into the bike course (and thus a half mile away from the end of the bike course as well) where there were two speedbumps that the cyclists needed to watch out for. After about 10 minutes, the word “speedbump” started to sound very, very strange.
Nonetheless, it was a lot of fun and we got to see everyone on the race course not once, but twice! Cassie looked great both times as she undertook her first triathlon, so congratulations to her. BAM had a few racers today, but the bulk of us will be racing tomorrow in either the quarter or half ironman event.
My swim wave starts at 8:55 but transition closes at 7:15 (since the first wave of the half iron starts at 7:30), so I’ll have a bit of time to kill tomorrow morning. The other downside of starting so late is that if it clears up and is sunny like it was today, the run is going to be pretty warm. But I’ll manage.
I’m shooting for anything under 3:30 for the 0.6 mile swim, 28 mile bike, and 6.5 mile run. I think 3:20-3:30 is a very realistic goal, but anything can happen.
