Chris Tremonte

Here is a rather detailed report on Saturday's race.  I had plenty of time at the airport and on the airplane so you, the reader, get a nice verbose write-up.  I hope to right up a second post tonight that talks about the rest of the trip. This past weekend I raced in the San Francisco Triathlon at Treasure Island, which is the final ...

Raced today in beautiful San Luis Obispo, CA.  It rained, but a fun time was had by all.  I took tenth overall with a good swim, good bike and a rather flat run.  I should clarify that the course was quite hilly but my run performance was flat. I finished a few spots ahead of Jeff Piland and moved into third in the Tri-California ...

Last weekend I raced in the Triathlon at Pacific Grove.  I was feeling really good about my swim & run fitness coming in and I expected/hoped to make the main swim group, then break out a new run PR.  As it played out, I didn't swim quite as well as I hoped but my run was pretty solid. I settled in to fifth place in the swim pack ...

Leading up to this Saturday's Avia Wildflower Long Course race I had a bit of bravado about how far my run has come.  I told anyone who would listen that I was hoping to get out there and log a sub-1:20 run split.  I didn't show enough respect for the brutality of that bike and run course, and I felt plenty of remorse for this oversight ...

Yesterday's race was a painful battle of attrition.  More than a quarter of the field dropped out due to crashes or flat tires and a quarter of those who finished ran their second 10k slower than 40 minutes. The first run was rather brisk, as expected, but I managed to start picking guys off on the second lap and entered T1 with a ...