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Comments: Last year the swim was a nightmare this year the conditions were so much better. you start off swimming looking into the sun so its really tricky to see the first buoy to round. I just put my head down and started swimming from the start I found a few feet to sit on and thought yep I'll just follow them till the first buoy. Unfortunately I picked the wrong feet she headed off to the right so I had to swim over her to get back on track and found another set of feet to draft off. Once I turned that first buoy I settled into my normal pace and swam a pretty good swim I think. One chick scratched my arm to pieces and it hurt in the salt water but it was pretty uneventful apart from that. What would you do differently?: not let someone else lead me off course. its hard to sight directly into a rising sun but maybe I could practice that a bit  Transition 1
Comments: I got my wetsuit off pretty quickly, someone had racked their bike righto ver my gear so I had a bit of trouble getting my shoes out, was as quick as I could be. What would you do differently?: I'll learn one day to get on the bike and put my shoes on but apart from that everything was as fast I could have been.  Bike
Comments: Ok I've put smooth road surface for the most part it was but there were a few rough areas. I felt great on the bike unfortunately my bike computer wasn't working, I haven't quite got the new computer figured out its got a few features which I havne't worked out yet and i just couldn't get it to work. I didn't have any guidelines to how fast I was going. I could definitely have gone faster I should have pushed it faster. there was little undulating slopes. not really hills. I really didn't corner too well, there were only two tight corners but I slowed right down as I'm not overly confident cornering on the new bike, its just a whole different centre of gravity. One one corner I got yelled out by a guy behind me. and I was totally in the right, rude old guy. I did not drink the entire bike! ooops. What would you do differently?: cornering practice, ride faster, not listen to old grumpy men yelling behind me donn' t let it put me off cornering! Transition 2
Comments: I did a bit of dawdling in transition. I did it all and was going quickly but I was kinda day dreaming a little. What would you do differently?: concentrate  Run
Comments: I grabbed a drink before I headed out of transition. I remembered from last year I had to run to the end of transition before I could get out on the path. Headed out for the run. I don't know what it is about Mandurah but the run course just seems to come easier then most. its slightly sheltered and runs along the canals and lovely houses in Mandurah I think I must get distracted looking at the scenery. I'm never going to be a fast runner but I had a good run. managed to get a few sips of drinks in on the run What would you do differently?: learn how to run faster Post race
Warm down: milled around chatting forgot to do any stretching at all. waited for the presentations, no spot prizes today. What limited your ability to perform faster: lack of speed! Event comments: I really enjoyed this race its great racing for your club made it a really social event! would liek to go faster but I'm happy with this race as the first hit out for the Perth season. Bring on next weekend Last updated: 2006-11-26 12:00 AM
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Mandurah Tri Club
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The race was down in Mandurah so was up at 4.30am to have some breakfast, that is a ridiculous time of morning to be up. anything before 5 is just not human in my books.
Anyway packed the car up picked up my friend and onto the freeway down to Mandurah. Watching the sun come up. last year I remember driving down in a horrible storm wondering hwat I was doing. it felt alot better this year.
I did absolutely no warm up. milled around chatting to people whacked on the wetsuit. apparantly the water was 17C but I think someone made a mistake the water was alot warmer then that I thought.
None of the times are exact they are jsut when I glanced at my watch I'm still waiting for the actual finish time because I didn't stop my watch till a couple of mins ater Ifinished.