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Comments: Very windy and choppy water and swim course is a disaster to begin with. What would you do differently?: Who knows?  Transition 1
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What would you do differently?: not much Transition 2
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Comments: I felt mentally worse than my physical state. I probably could have pushed a little harder on the run. I wish I had since I was less than 90 seconds from third place in my AG. And this time is significantly slower than paces in earlier races. Post race
Warm down: grabbed a banana and water, walked around a bit, then packed up, got in line again for some breakfast. What limited your ability to perform faster: Overall I improved 3 minutes from last year's race and moved up 30 spots in the overall ranking. I don't feel like anything really limited my performance. It would have helped to have my food and drinks, but I made the mental adjustment. The race was not that long for it to have much of a difference. Event comments: Swim course is really a disaster and worse this year than last. More comments to come after I debrief. Last updated: 2009-06-15 12:00 AM
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United States
RAM Racing
71F / 22C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 37/335
Age Group = M40-44
Age Group Rank = 4/23
Got up at 4:45 to have a bite to eat and load up the car. Ate yogurt and flax mixture, banana and english muffin. Took stuff outside to load car. As it happens, when I arrived at the race venue I discovered that I had left my food, water and gatorade at the house. I had to do my best to forget about it and use up some of the miscellaneous sources of fuel I stored in my bag. Could have filled up my bottles at the water dispenser, but I did such a good job of putting this out of my conscious memory that I did not think to walk over to the water jugs available for public consumption.
Took the bike out for a brief ride, ran about 1/2 mile, took a brief swim to get acclimated to the waves (did not help), and mixed in various stretches. Had too much time I think, but I prefer more time to being rushed.