{"id":934,"date":"2023-06-26T23:47:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racereportblog.com\/2023\/06\/26\/sleepy-hollow-sprint-triathlon-june-18-2023\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:46:11","slug":"sleepy-hollow-sprint-triathlon-june-18-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racereportblog.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy Hollow Sprint Triathlon – June 18, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Drove up with racing buddy Alan Golds, walked down from street parking to the Hudson River transition area, lovely community event complete with many first timers (like I was, 11 years ago!) and others chatting that this was their only race, every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Donny, a swim buddy from the JCC, was among the newbies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Waited to run into the water, two at a time \u2014 thought we\u2019d be self-seeding based on expected finish time or pace, but no such luck, and a lot of thrashing to get around big guys doing breast stroke. Tuned into a new way to improve my catch and got through the 1 km (0.6 mile) river swim feeling confident. A little choppy, maybe a slight headwind before being pushed to shore. Seven big orange buoys made sighting very easy. I expected to swim at 1:48 pace, but official results were better: 14:58 = 1:42 min\/100 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ran out, stripping off wetsuit near the shore – water lubricating the removal – puffing pretty hard for the run into transition. Looked like one bike in my rack\/Age Group was gone (probably the guy who had attached his shoes to his pedals!)\u2026 T1 in 3:38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zander Reyna runs into the water\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And Zander runs out. Finishes 2nd OA in the swim in 12:19, = 1:24 min\/100 yd. 1st in Age Group for 50-54; as I\u2019m approaching the finish line, he\u2019s leaving, and shouts \u201cPick up my medal!\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rode as hard as I could – no reason to pace and conserve, it\u2019s a sprint \u2014 and was virtually alone for the entire ride. \u201cEither I\u2019m ahead of everybody, or way behind the better swimmers\u2026\u201d. Going through the Regeneron corporate campus I didn\u2019t even see a volunteer and thought \u201conce again, I missed a turn on the bike course!\u201d Wasn\u2019t sure where that \u201cslow down! Slow down!\u201d sharp turn was so was cautious much earlier than necessary \u2014 and the turn turned out to be easier to handle than advertised. Bottom line: 35:26 for a 10-mile course = 18.6 mph. Would have liked to be faster on the downhills, but hadn\u2019t trusted the pavement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T2 in 1:34. In contrast with the first time I did this race, I did NOT run out of transition still wearing my bike helmet \ud83d\ude42 \u2026 but had to run back a few yards to take my watch off the bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The run was bright, virtually no shade along the riverbank and next to construction and rows of new condos and I felt maxed out from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passed a few people, none in my age group, but gratifying. My Garmin said I averaged 7:30 min\/mile over the 3.1 miles but official results were even better: 22:01, or 7:20 per mile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bottom line: 1:17:38, 2\/9 AG (2nd to John Weber, who was the guy who calmly came in 1st to my 2nd place years ago at the local Toughman 70.3). 20\/188 OA, so\u2026 fast enough to be in 2nd place for 55-59, 50-54, and 45-49. Which was gratifying. AND\u2026. 6 minutes faster than the same race in 2012. Experience IS better than youth, in so many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With John Weber and\u2026 someone else<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With Alan Golds and Tom Andrews \u2014 each of us took 2nd in our respective Age Groups!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And then, with all the kids running to the finish line with their fathers, and the announcer wishing us all a happy Father\u2019s Day, I remembered that this was my first Father\u2019s Day without my Dad. It just sneaks up on you, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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