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Comments: Now, it's not just because I got lost on the swim course and wasted at least two minutes, but this course is set up terribly. There are two sets of out and back bouys that run parallel to each other. Girls on the right, boys on the left. I set up on the line, one foot in the water, one on land. A kid with baggy shorts and a big fat FT on his calf (first timer) comes next to me. I offer some advice that if he perfers to to be alive after 1 minute he should go in the back. He tells me he can punch with the best of them. Good mentality. The gun goes off and I dive. My first two hundred yards are perfect. I look up, sighting good. Quick look back, this highschool kid and I have 5 yards on the field. No contact. I round the bouy in very good shape navigating around the first wave white capppers like mines. This is where it goes bad. I lost the high-school kid and there was no one in front of me. I look up to sight, with the girls buoys and the boys buoys there are buoys everywhere. My goggles are foggy, the sun to my right is in my eyes, this is going to be trouble. I run into a kayak. I had crossed the women's field and was swimming off course. I yell to the kayaker that I am just trying to keep him on his toes. I feel like my race is pretty much over but I reconfigure my course and swim in the rest of the way with the ladies. What would you do differently?: Sight better. I felt good too. Oh well.  Transition 1
Comments: Not a bad transition considering I haven't done one in a really long time.  Bike
Comments: I come out of transition, hop on my bike, and commence getting this thing over with. I start off strong and start passing people like crazy. I had two waves in front of me so I had lots to pass. I tell all the FTers nice job and try and push harder. I pass people the most on the climbs and then I hammer on the downhills. I get passed by 3 people total during the race. This was a very technical course with a lot of sharp turns at some high speeds. I was actually happy I had my road bike and not a tri-bike. This one fine gentleman found it his duty to get up my butt on the climbs and the flats, then when we were decending to a sharp turn, he would over take me and then hit the brakes right before the turn. I was displeased to say the least. Finally we climb our last hill and I can see the lake about a hundred feet below us. I scream back down around to the lake and into the transition area. What would you do differently?: nothing really. I haven't rode that much this year so I could have cared less about the bike. Transition 2
Comments: I am absolutely drenched in sweat coming into t2. The heat is still high eighties and there is no wind. I am out of cytomax but I don't feel like drinking anyway. I put my stuff on and run out of T2. What would you do differently?: nothing  Run
Comments: I begin the run, my favorite part. Right away I know that the heat combined with hammering on the bike causes my legs to feel like lead. Of course, maybe if I had done a couple bricks lately I would have seen this coming. I start reeling in runners like fishies. I lose count after 20 in the first quarter mile. My favorite people to pass were the people with R on their calves. Out of my way RELAY suckers! I am running around a 6 minute per mile pace. I had hoped to be faster but my legs combined with the heat was just not going to make that possible. I ran pretty hard. I passed a lot. The first mile is downhill. I felt ok. My sides were sore which is unusual and my tummy burned like I just ate that new taco bell crunchy wrap gimmick with hot sauce all over it. We come to the turn around and start back. The way back is all uphill. It is painful. I pant. I pass. Uphills are my strength, however painful they may be. We come to the finishing chute and I hear panting behind me and someone yelll "You got him!". Hell no you don't! I push it in a new gear and spring across the line. 24th Overall out 484 and 2nd out of 22 in my AG. I am listed as 1st in my AG in the official AG categories because the guy who beat me took 2nd overall. What would you do differently?: What else... run faster. Post race
Warm down: I stood around and drank some gimmick energy drink and some watermelon. I collected my free stuff from the vendors and asked the timing people if they ha the preliminary results. They told me I had to wait 45 minutes until they sorted it out. I decided dinner with my parents was more important than if I won some ribbon and took off. What limited your ability to perform faster: Lack of triathlon motivation. Event comments: It was a good race with exception to the swim course set up. Profile Album Last updated: 2008-06-30 12:00 AM
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Pat Griskus Triathlon Series
87F / 31C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 24/484
Age Group = 25-29
Age Group Rank = 2/22
Parked my car at pretty much the last spot in the lot. I Had arrived at 5 for a 6 o'clock race and the transition area and parking lot were completely full. I managed to squeak out a small spot in the middle of one of the back racks. I walked down and picked up my packet. Next I walk over to get marked. This woman has a permanent marker that looks like she is ready to mark an elephant with. She draws what appears to be a treasure map all over my body. Letters here, numbers there, was that an X?... I walk up to the little boys room to drop a couple pounds, still slightly lightheaded from the elephant body marking permanent marker smell that permeated from my entire body. In the process of dropping a couple pounds, as I am sitting there, the guy in the stall next to me drops a packet of body butter on the ground. I start to laugh and think to myself... there are so few sports where someone can drop body butter on the ground in the shitter and the guy next to you doesn't become frightened, in more ways than one. I mosey on over back to transition, spray myself with PAM, slide on my wet suit and make my way down to the lake.
I decide to go for a little swim and pee in my wet suit in the brackish entry way for the swim. I put my feet down and cringe as I sink into 6 inches of gooshy slime and decaying leaves. It didn't cross my mind that maybe the water is so brackish is because everyone had the same pee-pee idea as me.