Cherry Streak Tri Write Up

4th out of the water, 3rd out of transition so in 3rd place before the turn around incident.


Neg:
Started 40 mins late (shuttle)
TA stones
TA water buckets

Swim long?
Transition straight up a hill
Timing mat not right out of water (and some people cut the course)

Turn around not well marked
Cracks everywhere in pavement
Not closed course so a boat cut in front of me

Run not well marked
Paths were horrible
People allowed to cut the course and no DQ
Finish was on an uphill

Food wasnt ready for an hour after finishing
Awards were 3 hours after finishing

Timing was all messed up
Bike was more like 10.5 rather than 11 miles anyway

In short, everyone has a bad race but this was me having a good race and the organization of the race director had a huge effect on my outcome.  You see pros swim off course due to a floating marker bouy, you see leaders in a race take wrong turns (they should have known the course) but when a turn around isnt marked how am I to know the scale of a hand drawn map they had posted online??  What did you do when you took a wrong turn during a race?


9 2/11 7/77 15:35 2:05 0:58 34:56 18.9 0:47 22:06 7:22 1:14:19
overall div swim pace T1 Bike pace T2 Run Pace Time