I’m excited to report I placed second in yesterday’s Austin Pan American Cup! Despite a poor swim, I was able to stay in contention on the bike and battled it out for the win with New Zealand’s Callum Millward on the run. It came down to a drag race style sprint in the last 100 meters and he got me. Here are a few pics from the race (courtesy of Ashish Patel):
I got beat up quite a bit at the start of the swim and found myself pretty far back in this long, strung out men’s field.
Cameron Dye and Mark Van Akkeren set a blistering pace in the swim.
Onto the bike I found myself in the fourth pack on the road. We had a lot of good cyclists and we caught the two packs in front of us. A group of three stayed away (Brian Fleischmann, Cameron Dye, and Mark Van Akkeren) and had a gap of a little over one minute heading out onto the run.
The men’s podium: Me (second), Callum Millward of New Zealand (first), and Martin Van Barneveld also of New Zealand (third)
The women’s podium: Hayley Peirsol (USA – second), Kate McIlroy (NZL – first), Jenna Shoemaker (USA – third).
Champagne!
The water was 1000 times cleaner than last weekend in Oklahoma City. This was a turtle swimming around in the swim venue.