First Tri race report (PTC Sprint TRI)

I competed in my first tri today at the PTC Sprint TRI in Peachtree City, GA.  What can i say, it was a great experience, and i'm definitely hooked now.  I live an hour north of Atlanta and had to get up around 3:30 AM to make the drive down to Peachtree City to pick up my packet etc.  So with my nerves and the early morning wakeup, i only had around 3 hours sleep.  Luckily, I didn't really notice any fatigue until after the race.

The swim was my first OWS (I didn't even get the chance to practice one prior to today).  The organizers did a good thing, in my opinion, and seeded each athlete by their reported average 100 time and only allowed 2 in the water at a time separated by 5 seconds.  This spread the field out well and i didn't have a nightmare wrestling match in the water.  The swim was about a third of a mile and i completed it in a little over 10 minutes, my swim rank was 24th out of 84 in the clydes division.  I didn't practice transitions and my T1 was pretty slow @ 3 minutes.

On the bike i felt great, i had to have passed about 100 or more riders on the 14 mile course and was only passed by maybe 3 or 4 people.  The course was slightly hilly, but no major climbs.  It was much flatter than the hills that i train on and it showed in my effort.  I finished the bike segment with an average of 21.3 MPH and a div rank of 22 out of 84.  T2 was better at a little under a minute and a half.

The run was ok but not great and i definitely was feeling the effort of the day on mile 3.  I gutted it out and finished the 5K w/ an average pace of 9:16 for a div rank of 34 out of 84.

Final place was 30th out of 84 in the clydesdale division and 357 out of something like 955 overall.

What a day, I was overcome with a wave of emotion about 10 minutes after i finished and had to find a quiet place to reflect on what a ride the past 10 months since my surgery have been.

Official results are found here:  http://results.active.com/pages/displayNonGru.jsp?orgID=216352&rsID=82799

Awesome, awesome job. Great times all the way around.

Nice race bro! Congrats on joining the ranks of Triathletes, it's so awesome... I am sure this is the first of many tremendous races you will conquer, and great splits on all disciplines! I have never heard of THAT many Clydes in a race! Even Ironman Buffalo Springs 70.3 had like 30.. THat's crazy! Anyways, congrats again and you are doing awesome!

BTW I am doing the Augusta ,GA Ironman 70.3 Next month... You should come out and volunteer and hang out, that would be awesome...

i'm going to look into this, sounds like it might be fun to volunteer... i'll let you know

Congrats on completing the first triathlon.

Awesome job.

Have you already picked out your next race?

Scott

Sounds like you had an awesome race!  Great job!

I'm sure there will be many more in your future.

Linn 

Great job!

Time to sign up for a few more...

 Great Race!!!!  There are addicting aren't they?

thanks all...

i am signed up for two more this season, one on 9/19, and one on 10/4, they are definitely addicting!