Race Coverage

It Was Pretty Good...

Monday, 04 June 2012 02:30

Kansas City 5150

By Devon Palmer (http://palmertri.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/kansas-city-5150/)

Race Report - It was a fun road trip as I had Minnesotan / Wisconsinite / Canadian Claire Bootsma as my co-pilot. Pick good travel buddies if you want to have a good travel race weekend. Over the past few years I

My race was similar to Knoxville. A slow start put me just a bit behind the back of the front group in the swim and 1:15 down out of the water. The ride was strong and I moved up to 2nd on the second lap. Jordan Jones, who won, rode by shortly after so I just tried to keep him in sight the rest of the ride. I had a very unfortunate T2 due and due to swelling in my heels and loss of blood flow to my thumbs it took an extra minute to get my run shoes on. Note: I did not have any swelling or loss of blood flow, it was just a rough transition.

The run was alright. At Knoxville the field was deep so there was a big group together off the bike. I could relax and try to run my own best run as they all scampered off with 31-33s. Here the field was split up into little groups of 2 or 3 and it was more depressing to have guys catch me and go by sporadically. Once out of the money (only top 5 got paid) I decided I really did not want to get blasted out of the top ten. A big group of guys was just rolling up at the finish