Toronto Triathlon Festival - Sprint Course
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Toronto Triathlon Festival - Sprint Course - Triathlon
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Comments: No warm up allowed so had about 2 minutes to get used to water. Rather than swimming spent the time dunking and keeping face in the water to numb it and get rid of the spike in HR from the cold water. Think it worked pretty well. What would you do differently?: Rated swim below average because of slower time than normal. Most people seemed to be 1-3min slower than their usual times - guessing it was because the muscles don't work as well when they are frozen. I do need to start pushing myself harder in the water. Think I have the technique and need to start pushing my cardio. Transition 1
Comments: I actually ran from swim to bike this time, and my T1 time is improving again, but still too slow. Struggled with my wetsuit on the heels. What would you do differently?: Run a bit faster and get wet suit off faster. Bike
Comments: PB for me!!!! FINALLY broke the 30km/hr barrier. And with 28km/hr NE winds with gusting especially over open bridge areas. Uphill all the way out to 10km turn around and then flying back to finish with exception of last 2km? where we had to turn back into the wind. Also included a long run up a steep hill to the mount line and then literally crawling back down it because it felt like the bike was going to run away from from or pull me flying down the hill. Transition 2
Comments: This was quite a shock starting down the steep hill with bike. Felt like the bike was going to pull me down it or I was going to lose the bike. so but the brakes on my feet and held on bike tightly and walked down the ramp to 2/3 down and then able to run bike back to rack. What would you do differently?: Practice running with bike down a steep hill. Run
Comments: This was a good run for me. Legs didn't feel heavy and felt like I had good cadence. Best run this year off the bike and a hard bike too. I was hoping to get a 6:15 pace and even though my legs didn't feel heavy just couldn't get them to move fast enough. The first km was toughest and the last 2km the strongest, especially the last km. Hooked up with another triathlete that had been running slightly faster than me and we ran together and she coached me on my breathing. She actually sent me on my way to the finish line with 1km to go. Even though my swim is not fast, it is the run that is putting me 5-6 positions lower in the overall age group ranking. Post race
Warm down: Usual walking around. What limited your ability to perform faster: Lack of training this year - low because of the hiking training. Last updated: 2013-05-02 12:00 AM
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Canada
Toronto Triathlon Festival
25C / 77F
Sunny
Overall Rank = 476/609
Age Group = 60-64
Age Group Rank = 9/12
Stayed in Mississauga. Normal routine, yoga, green juice, coffee, raw buckwheat oatmeal; beet juice on drive to site and hemp protein drink at site. Left at 6:45 and on site by 7:00.
DId a 25 minute bike ride at hotel on some quiet roads riding into the wind and also with the tail wind.