Rhett

Bucket List Sprint Tri

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Location:

Lake Havasu City,AZ,

Member Since:

Sep 29, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

23 marathons

6 Bostons (2007-2011, 2017)

3 Half Ironmans

2 Ironmans

3 50 Milers

1 Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim

Marathon PR:

     2:59:00 St. George 2008

     2:58:03 Boston 2010

 1/2 Marathon PR:

     1:25:41  Havasu Half 2009

     1:24:09 Painter's St.George 2010

 Half Ironman PR:

      5:25:02  HITS Havasu 2014

5K PR:

       18:23  LHC Turkey Trot 2014

        18:22  LHC Turkey Trot 2017

50 mile PR:

        7:56:14 Avalon50 2016

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break 3 hours again

Doing it a Boston would be sweet!

It was sweet!

UPCOMING RACES

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have fun!

 

Personal:

Married

4 kids

Optometrist

 

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Race: Bucket List Sprint Tri (3 Miles) 00:20:30, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Cade and I did the Bucket List Triathlon this morning here in Havasu.  He did the super sprint (200 m swim, 4 mile bike, 1 mile run) and I did the sprint (800 m swim, 12 mile bike, 3 mile run). 

Cade (10 years old) improved a lot this year especially on his swim.  He is so cute out there trying his best, always with such a positive attitude.  As the only participant under 18, he won his division and finished in the middle of the pack overall.

I had a difficult swim this morning, not performing as well as usual, probably because I swam without my wetsuit that I have been wearing during most of my training.  It really does help to wear one.  Anyways, out of the water there were a good 25 people ahead of me.  I made up for my bad swim with a solid bike averaging 20.5 mph even though it was pretty windy.  Off the bike there were about 12 people ahead of me, but some of them were just barely out of the transition before for me.  I passed about 7 people in the first mile of the run and had my sights on the next guy who was well ahead of me at the beggining of the run.  I finally caugt him with about half mile to go on the run, but he was able to kick right as I got a few yards behind him.  I matched his kick and stayed a few yards behind him, but just couldn't dig deep enough to pass him, so he beat me by a few seconds.  I ended up finishing 5th overall and 2nd in my AG.  

It is always fun to do local races, especially with my family.

Sketchers Sonic Miles: 3.00
Comments
From Hillbilly Runner on Sun, May 10, 2015 at 05:26:55 from 208.87.234.180

Sounds like you had a lot of fun. Congratulation to you and your son on a fine race.

From Matt Schreiber on Sun, May 10, 2015 at 20:15:25 from 66.17.112.31

Nice job Rhett. Impressive race. I've always heard that wearing a wetsuit helps quite a bit. From what I understand it's mainly the buoyancy thing?? Awesome bike, too! That had to have been awesome watching Cade race, too. That kind of stuff makes all of this competing stuff worth it!

From Tom Slick on Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:10:10 from 168.179.158.193

Congrats to you and your son. Way to work your strengths....5th overall and 2nd in AD.

That boy of yours is getting pretty good, 1st in his AD.

From Rhett on Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:41:38 from 24.121.0.8

Thanks HBR, Matt, and Slick. The best part is seeing Cade race and doing it with him.

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