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Wednesday evening, it was the third and last installment of the T-REX triathlon serie in Brighton Michigan. I have done all races in 2009 and 2010 so far, and manage to improve my time at each iteration.

This was the second triathlon for baby Cadence Turner.

I won’t go too much in the details. It went very good, starting with a nice swim in the speedsuit. I was only slower than my last swim there by a few seconds.

On the bike, I still have a hard time believing it, but I battled the whole time against a 55 yrs old woman. The little thing was passing on every hill climb of the course, and I would passer her on the downhill and the flats. We kept doing that till the end of the course. I was so intrigued, I looked her up online when I returned home. It turns out she’s an ageless legend, Laura Sophiea,  multiple ironman age group world champion in KONA (World Championships) where she competed like a dozen times. No wonder I had a hard time! Here she is in the picture below, right in front of me.

I still posted the fastest bike split of the race, and also tied the bike course record for 2010 with a 29:32 time for the 19.2 km course with rolling hills.

I came out 3rd out of T2, and ran my fastest triathlon run split to life with a 4:06/km pace, but that was not enough to keep my position. Several fast runners wednesday evening and I ended up finishing 7th with a time of 1:05:08, a new PB on this course by about ~45 seconds. I did 3rd in my age group, getting some more goodies.

Craig also raced. He went back to his signature move, as shown below. After the finish line, we were posing with our “T-REX serie’s finisher beer mug”.

A funny thing: the event photographers had banners around the race site, including this one on the stage where Canadian Ted Lamont was playing. I was on the picture from a previous race this year.

I am very happy wit my progression. I raced 6 times on this course in 2009 and 2010 and managed to improve my time at each opportunity. Here are the time comparisons:

* Wetsuit Swim
** Speed Suit Swim

As usual, more pictures in the album below!

T-REX TRI 2010

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