Well here goes for my first post...an example of what not to do! It's my 4th sprint triathlon ever so I think I am quite experienced. I'm wearing a tri suit for the first time (but that's another story) and feeling good even though I've just done my slowest swim ever! I'm on my bike...a fairly hilly course and just 2mi into it when I crest this tall, kick your butt hill. I begin my descent peddling hard I'm watching my odometer: 23, 26, whoo hoo!!!!! 31 mi per and hour. I hear honking and so look toward the sound at the crowds of people and cars to my right and smile. What great community support I think! I sure am going fast...more, even louder honking, so I wave and smile never dipping below 30! I push hard going down because I will have to go up again soon. About .3 miles down to the bottom of this STEEP hill when a guy, in a truck next to me rolls down his window and yells "YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!"
Yep...I should have turned right at the crest of the hill, not speed down the other side! So I have to turn around and get up out of the saddle to slowly make my way up a hill I should have never traversed in the first place. I set a PR on my bike as far as my mi/hr but you can't tell in my time because .6 miles were not even part of the course! Yep...stupid.
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