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I’m Todd Michaud and Welcome to Jackass!

I’m hurtling through the air towards the pavement and I’ve just realized that my knees are going to be the ones to make a first impression, and it’s going to fucking hurt…

CRACK! It feels like Tony Soprano just took a baseball bat to the front of my knees. The pain shoots up my body.

SCRAPE! My left forearm tears across the asphalt which feels more like a molten cheese grater, scraping a beer bottle sized patch of my skin from my left forearm.

This ballet of destruction ends with some road-rash to the tops of my feet and left shoulder.

NOT MY BEST BIKE DISMOUNT EVER.

But let me back up…

This is my Savannah Sprint Triathlon race report.

I had a descent swim, covering 500 yards in 10:10. 2:02/100 yards. It was okay, but tougher than I expected.

My bike was awesome. It was a ridiculously flat course. With my new hydration strategy I felt great. Add a new super-fast bike and I was flying. I had a 19.7 mph average (my previous best was 16.6 mph) and that includes lying on the ground for a couple minutes after my Symphony Of Destruction.

How did it happen?

So I have been leaving my shoes attached to my pedals in transition 1. It has made my times really fast. But up until today I have dismounted the bike with the shoes on. Today I took my feet out of the shoes prior to transition, pedaling with my feet on top the shoes. As I came in to transition I swung my right leg around to the left side of the bike to coast before my jumping off to run.

The only problem was that my left foot slipped off the shoe before I stopped and it all went to hell in a hand basket.

A couple of Paramedics patched me up in the transition area. Gauze around my left knee and left arm. 5 minutes and change later I was out on the run course.

I drove 6 hours with the wife and 3 kids to come to this race, there was no way in hell I was taking a DNF.

A two loop run course around the same lake we swam in was next and surprisingly I ran a sub-30 minute 5K. This was my best ever 5K run in a triathlon, my 2nd fastest 5K (solo) ever.

I set personal records in two of the three legs and came close on the swim. You take out my Johnny Knoxville impersonation and it would have been a great day.

The rest of the day are in the hands of Aleve and Sweetwater 420.

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