Buffalo Creek Xterra and Fort Collins Fathers Day 5K

Buffalo Creek & Fathers Day 5k
A couple weekends ago I raced my first official Xterra event, and for tough man points followed it up the next day with the Fort Collins Fathers Day 5K.
The Xterra was fun- super tough bike course. Was feeling really flat from Boise still, and suffered on the bike and run accordingly. Finished up 4th Place, not bad for my first dirty triathlon! Was just out of the $$, ohh well. It was a nice turbulent night of camping- with Chip barking and stepping on me all night in the tent before getting up to race. Swim actually went ok... the higher the altitude the better I seem to swim relative to other athletes. The race site was out in the boonies, Wellington lake out of Bailey Colorado. 10 miles out on a washboard dirt road. singletrack on the bike was SICK! the course was awesome except for having to get around a bunch of the "short course" athletes that shared a section of the trail. Yelling at people to move out of the way on a narrow dirt trail was pretty tiresome.
All in all a nice little weekend camp-out with Erin and the dog. We got back Saturday night, and got up Sunday to race the Fathers day 5k...
There was a $150 prim for the first person to the mile mark. A 14:30 5K guy tried to kick me down the last 40 yards.... pulled out the college 1500M speed and buried it to take the mile victory....that hurt. I continued to SUFFER another 2 miles to finish up in 2nd overall @ 16:11, and pick up a couple more bucks. Awesome, Awesome 5k. root beer floats for all finishers, well organized, flat and fast. FYI, i don't recommend running your first mile in 4:37 if your going to average 5:13 pace :)
Took some down time following the 5K- 9 days off the legs, I start building back up this week for all the biggie races this fall- Duathlon short course Worlds in September, Xterra Worlds in October, and 70.3 Worlds in November.