Sep 6: Portland City Triathlon

It has been a crazy few weeks since my last post about winning at the USA ParaTriathlon National Championship. The last hard push for training for World Championship and work has been eating all my blogging time up. Today though I have some time to write Two weeks ago I raced one of my favorit races of the season, the Portland Triathlon. I love this race. It's my hometown race and plays to my strengths with a challenging bike course (climbing and technical descents) then a flat fast run course. Because of the location a lot of my friends are able to come. Check out these shirts they made for me.

The race started with a fast swim in the river. I felt good and was able to find a strong rythem. Coming out of the water in T1 I slipped on some wet grass. I didn't notice it at the time but I banged ny elbow pretty good. By the run it was swollen up and hurting.  I biked very well. I wouldn't say I crushed it mostly because I didn't take risks on the descents. With Worlds so close I didn't want to go down. The run was hard for me. I tried to build it but just couldn't get my legs under me till the last kilometer.  Even with a slower run I still was fast enough for my first age group podium!