The schuylkill river! That's right. Competitors had to watch for toxic levels in the water rather than temperature. About a month ago a dead body was pulled out and this is a pretty frequent occurrence. A friend of mine from college used to row on the schuylkill for his high school crew team. One time his boat ran into a log that after they pulled this "log" to shore they discovered that no it wasn't a log. They ended up pulling a dead body to shore!On Saturday, my competitive nature kicked in after finding out that I was 1 minute 14 seconds from landing on the podium for my age group in the sprint triathlon. If I knew he was that close, I would have been sprinting my ass off to get by him. I later figured out that I would have a rematch on Sunday in the Olympic triathlon and after obsessing all Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, and Sunday morning, in the words of Barney Stenson "it was oooon"!
Coming into the second transition, I saw his bike on the rack already and he must have still had atleast 6-8 minutes on me. I ended up beating him by 1 minute exactly on the Olympic triathlon. He ended up receiving a 2 minute penalty for an illegal pass which then jumped my lead to 3 minutes and putting me on the podium in second place overall for the combo event.
It's nice that I apparently only get penalties called against me in soccer which for anyone that has seen/played indoor with me realize that's a pretty frequent occurrence. This is probably because the only contact in this sport is in the water which no fear I made sure I was in the thick of things.
On Saturday I received a swift breast stroke karate kid style kick to the face square on my left goggle. On Sunday I think for the entire swim portion of the race, two other guys and me were on top of each other, stroke for stroke pretty much hitting each other the entire way. I just figured this is perfect training for ironman lake placid.
26 days, 23 hours, 14 minutes until lake placid
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