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Comments: This was my known weakness going in to the tri. I just planned on "surviving" this, because I felt my swim performance had not come as far as I would have liked before doing an OWS. This was my first OWS, and first tri, and it really didn't bother me too badly. I got kicked and did some kicking myself, and it really wasn't bad at all. I am not scared of water, and have swam in lakes on and off my whole life. I never took a break (yay me!) and I side stroked almost the whole thing. I just couldn't get into any sort of crawl, so I figured to just keep moving and not get too far off of course. The first 100m I thought I was going to die, but pressed on and just grinded through the swim. Pretty proud of that, despite being slow. I have a lot to improve upon, but it is exciting to be a place where you can make huge strides quickly. My goggles fogged up badly for some reason, so I just took them off. Didn't seem to bother me since I was doing the side stroke. If I continue on with tris, I'll be getting some new goggles. I had Speedo Speed Sockets for this race. What would you do differently?: Train? Learn how to swim? Learning how to swim has been a difficult process for me, and I think that I really needed more than 3 months of TI to be more proficient.  Transition 1
Comments: Forgot to move the timing chip so it got stuck when I was trying to extricate my wetsuit. Otherwise, the transition went fairly smoothly. I was right around the middle of my age group as far as T1 time goes. What would you do differently?: remove timing chip before ditching wetsuit.  Bike
Comments: I hammered the bike, and felt good. I'm a big rider, so climbing suffered, but it has suffered a long time. ;-) Passed a LOT of people, and I really enjoyed the bike ride. There was some tech corners, and I loved it. Lots of places I could really make some time up by railing corners and passing people on their swanky tri bikes. I borrowed a Pinarello Dogma for the race and it performed awesome. Probably should have drank more on the bike but my water was warm and I was having fun. What would you do differently?: Get a tri bike and inflict more pain upon my competitors. :-0 Transition 2
Comments: I'm wasn't exactly by the book when it came to T2, but I didn't really care that much. My lost time didn't really happen during the transition areas. What would you do differently?: nothing I guess. 12/34  Run
Comments: Couldn't find my legs, and had to walk a good bit. Maybe I went too hard on the bike, but I think I should have been able to run more than I did. What would you do differently?: Train more! I didn't run nearly enough, but plan on implementing more run in my training. Post race
Warm down: I hugged my kids and ate a free cheeseburger. NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM What limited your ability to perform faster: lack of training. Event comments: I enjoyed the race and would consider doing it again. Profile Album Last updated: 2010-05-03 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 227/303
Age Group = M3034
Age Group Rank = 28/34
I got there early 5:30 and walked around after setting up transition and soaked in the atmosphere. Couldn't believe I was doing a tri, this was way out of my element. Not a swimmer nor a runner, so this would be expanding my horizons a good bit. I scouted out the transition entries/exits just to make sure there was no mid-race confusion, although there were plenty of volunteers.
Stretched, didn't really warm up too much. If I could actually swim, I probably would have done a bit. My body was warm from standing on the beach for 45 mins in a full wetsuit though.