Great Lake Tri in Michigan - Triathlon Week

jwier92 · 07-27-2006, 06:35 PM

Okay I got to do the Great Lakes Triathlon in Middleville Michigan last Saturday (July 22, 2006).

It was a long sprint at 800m swim, 18 miles bike, 4.5 miles in the run.

I was happy with my time, but I was over my pie in the sky goal of 1 hour 50 minutes with a time of 1:50:44

My splits were as follows

Swim 16:08 (2:01/100m)
T1 2 minutes
Bike 54:48 (19.7mph)
T2 47 seconds
Run 37:07 (8:14 minute/miles)

My swim was off to start with, but then I calmed down and did much better. The bike was good and fast with lots of hills, never a dull moment. The run was good, but at 2 miles I was under 16 minutes, so I decided I could slow down a little and I did too much. I could have made my time with an 8 minute/mile. Over all very happy with the results. Great weather. One dude did the swim in just under 10 minutes.

I will do this race again as the setting was very nice and the race directors were very good.

Now I want to do an Oly! I feel I am ready. There is one close on Aug 19th and I hear the hills are huge!

Peace,
Jason

sfricks · 07-28-2006, 05:50 AM

You rock Jason! Way to hammer. Very impressive bike in the hills and great run time. Your swim was certainly not bad. Great job!

hmullett · 07-28-2006, 06:56 AM

Jason,
Way to go! Great times! Which Olympic are you considering? You know that the MidEast championships are here in Indy on 8/27. If you're interested go to [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and look in the entry lists. Eagle Creek is a great race venue and the people are wonderful. Don Carr is a wonderful race director and the lead referee is great too. The distance is 1.5k/40k/10k. The bike course is hilly, but one you get out onto the country roads, its pretty flat and the roads are well maintained. Anyway, something to think about!

Heather

Spike10 · 07-28-2006, 10:04 AM

Jason, grab that Oly by the throat and don't let go, you can do it!
Spike.