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Oro Valley Sprint Triathlon Race Report by Paul Allingham

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Last Saturday March 25 I did my first race for the 2017 season with my daughter Tara here in Arizona.  It was a great weather day just a bit cool at 7 am at 50F with the sun rising over the Catalina Mountains for the 800m serpentine swim up and back each of 8 lanes in the Olympic 50m pool at the outdoor Oro Valley Aquatic Center.  Then 2 loops on the bike course with a couple of decent hills and 2 loops on the flat run course on the road and park around the pool in quite warm weather by then 70F going towards 80F in the afternoon.
Tara and I started about 7 min apart in the wave time trial like start, but finished with exactly the same time.  Actually we were 0.7 seconds apart similar to the Toronto race last year.  Guess that’s what happens when you train together.
I did win 2cd in my age group and Tara was 7th in hers.
All in all a great day followed the next day with 2 of my grandkids Natalie and Adam doing the half mile kids race and my son – in – law Jason doing the hilly half marathon in the Arizona Distance Classic. Tara and Joanne and I were cheerleaders for that.
Sadly we head home this week after 2 months in the sun in Arizona just before Greg Pace’s training camp here. We’ll spend a few days in Utah on the way seeing where John Wayne and others shot movies in Monument Valley and the to Moab and Canyonlands.
But looking forward to training outdoors at home and racing with my other daughter Kerri who is getting more serious about triathlon and doing a Sprint in Mont Tremblant with my son Mark in his first ever triathlon.

Paul