This was the last Cactus Man in Tempe, and it was a hard race for me. I was traveling the week before, probably went out too hard on a taper ride the day before, and we had stiff winds (10+ mph) that made the bike ride tough and made the first half of the run a real slog (I did better on the second half, especially once I had the wind at my back). I'm in a very robust age cohort, 10 people had signed up to race in 70-74, and 8 did show and finished.
I thought I'd be right in the middle of the group, but officially came in 6 out of 8. Two weird things about the results. First, the finisher right ahead of me reportedly did a sub-50-minute 10K, at age 70. I think that has to be wrong, he only did one lap or something. If so, I did get 5/7 again this year.
But even if someone who was 11 minutes slower in the swim, 7 minutes slower on the bike, and 2 minutes slower in transitions somehow did a 49:41 10K, I have to be pleased with my result because I finished 0.8 seconds faster than the guy in 7th place. He's got to be really pissed.
T1 5:45.2
Bike 1:10:25.3
T2 3:25.6
Run 1:21:10.5
Overall 3:16:38.6
Division 6/8, gender 178/188, overall 232/250
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