{"id":1171,"date":"2023-06-22T01:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T01:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2023-06-22T01:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T01:40:44","slug":"sylvan-beach-triathlon-5-21-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/22\/sylvan-beach-triathlon-5-21-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvan Beach Triathlon (5\/21\/23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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(Photo courtesy of Digital Knight)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing the challenges from 2021 at Sylvan Beach, I booked flights so I could get in as early as possible Friday. But airline inefficiencies and Mother Nature had other plans\u2026 I’ll leave it at being stuck on a plane for almost 4 hours in OKC was NOT fun\u2026 I think I made it to the hotel at 1:30 AM Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a really quick turnaround, I was at Sylvan Beach Saturday morning for the pre-race clinic. Before getting into the water, Erik found a great way to improve the tether and simplify the swim. We’ll see if I can make further improvements to it (mostly through new T1 belts) before Nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things went well during the clinic, including some very fast 100yd times. Erik also did an amazing job keeping us safe on the tandem in\/around the parking lot when drivers didn’t act as expected\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Race morning started by being absolutely, positively devoured by mosquitos. Before the race even started, I had small golf-sized bumps all over my body — even under the Tri kit. I have no idea how they managed to get to some of those places. This was an in-water start as a group, with all the others behind us in self-seeded starts. The updated tether worked really well, and we were out of the water quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bike has two sets of overpasses that you have to do. Going out, the second one seemed to be a pause (meaning a turn or something similar) into then trying to climb. So I was concerned about that coming back. Fortunately, there was a nice downhill climb for the climb. It doesn’t mean that it was easy, it just meant it was bearable\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the run, things were fairly strong up through the 2 – 2 1\/4 mile mark. After that point, I started getting the normal foot \/ flem issues and the last part was a struggle. Also, while I know it will be different for 2024, the last roughly 1\/2 mile on the shared bike\/run course was a challenge with a guide. But Erik helped to make it work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, a solid return to Sylvan Beach. Thanks to Erik for guiding me, Nelson for the use of his tandem, and to everyone who helped put on the clinic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo courtesy of Digital Knight) Knowing the challenges from 2021 at Sylvan Beach, I booked flights so I could get in as early as possible Friday. But airline inefficiencies and Mother Nature had other plans\u2026 I’ll leave it at being stuck on a plane for almost 4 hours in OKC was NOT fun\u2026 I think … Continue reading Sylvan Beach Triathlon (5\/21\/23)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}