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Comments: Sholders got surprisingly tight and tired. With new suit had a hard time getting a body good roll was surprised at how fast everyone was. I was desparately trying to find some feet didn't on the way out and on the back surged to jump on a train and swam maybe 300 meters with them and then got dropped because I could stay on the feet What would you do differently?: Find some feet and work at keeping on them!  Transition 1
Comments: Didn't want to jack up the new wetsuit so I was gentle on the removal process. I also elected for socks because I was cool. What would you do differently?: not much  Bike
Comments: Speedometer went out 2.1 miles into it as I hit a pothole getting my armwarmers on. Glad I put the socks on and had the arm warmers at the ready. Pace was good early on, didn't let myself get into racing until the end. Raced a bit toward the end because I was on track for such a good bike split for me. Concerns were that my rear derailler was acting up. I'm not sure if it is was because of the profile bottle or getting dinged up on travel up. Other thing was that my neck cramped up at about 50 miles need to stay on my neck stretching program Transition 2
Comments: No worries. My 9 year old was waiting for me on his bike right outside of T2 to cheer me on  Run
Comments: Felt good, my boy kept me pumped up. I did 15-30 seconds walk breaks at 2,4,6,8, and 10 aid stations. Mentally it is so much better to walk intentionally instead of being humbled into walking. What would you do differently?: Get a few more long runs in before. Post race
Warm down: Got really cold. Drank some carbs What limited your ability to perform faster: Volume of training Profile Album Last updated: 2009-03-09 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 14/455
Age Group = M35-39
Age Group Rank = 5/43
Camped the night before at Cherry Creek. Got a new air matress made a great improvement. More relaxed day prior. 35 week pregnant wife was a trooper and got us all moving on race day. We took a wrong turn getting to the race site so we were rushed but I choked down my bagels with PB. Got the kids some hot choclate and us a big coffee. Long story short a little chaotic before the race.
Got a little run in maybe 1/2 mile to the porta potty. prayed with the kids and put the new wet suit on (Xterra pro). Got about 200 meter warm up in the water. The water was way warmer than the outside air temp so it was nice to hang out and float. That's when I realize how cold it was....my finger constricted so much that my wedding ring that I never take off (worn thru 4 deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan) was loose so with less than 1 minute from the start I ran out of the water from the front of the pack and gave my ring to the wife and gave a kiss to my three year who screamed because I was getting her wet and ran back to my "spot"