Hulk Piss 2009

The Old Hickory Tri is nicknamed the Hulk Piss Tri (copyright James Banker 2007) because the water is a nasty murky green with visibility of about 11 inches. Plus, when you jump in, it’s even warm and doesn’t smell that pleasant! One can only assume that this best describes the Hulk’s urine.

This sprint tri consist of a 400 yard swim (or close to 600 when Team Magic’s buoys notoriously drift WAY off course), a 1.5 mile run, 12.5 mile bike, and another 1.5 mile run. Not a bad little practice workout with all the transitions. Three of Team Clementine’s members participated in this event: James Banker (3 yr Veteran), Jeff Rooks, and Jonathan Minton. Some of the greatest highlights of this event include James breaking a 1:40 with NO training in the past several months, Jeff Rooks averaging 18.7mph on an old bottom tube shifting bike without bike shoes to clip in, and Jonathan spending over 14 minutes frolicking around like a 7 yr old sissy in the water in what SHOULD have taken him 10 mins. Again, another pathetic swim by Jonathan (however, I did break well over 20mph on the bike – 20.9 to be exact).

Finish Times:
James Banker – 1:37:19
Jeff Rooks – 1:18:31
Jonathan Minton – 1:16:42

In the end, it wasn’t a bad race at all considering James tapers for 6 months, this was only Rooks’ third race, Rooks and Minton raced the previous weekend (Monster, see post below), and Minton hadn’t had a day off training since before the previous race.