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Comments: I swam pretty hard and I thought I was going to finish with a good time, but when I saw that I completed my swim in 28:10 I was a bit disappointed. A couple of weeks back I did 1500m time trial in the pool without my wetsuit and I completed it in 25:16. Oh well... What would you do differently?: I don't know. I thought I did everything decently, but evidently I screwed up something. The problem is figuring out what :)  Transition 1
Comments: This was by far one of my fastest T1 ever. It took a minute or so to get from the beach landing to the transition area with a nice and steep climb on Beach st. Got my wetsuit off pretty quickly, I patted myself dry with a towel, put on my TT helmet and ran out with my bike. This was the first time I was racing with tri bike shoes so I tried the run and jump mounting technique. It went pretty much flawlessly, not like the first time I tried it out :) What would you do differently?: Nothing  Bike
Comments: I was racing for the first time with my new tri rig, a Fuji D-6 Pro, aka "Da Monsta", as my older daughter calls her. So far I only raced with my road rig, a Litespeed Vela and I had no idea how the Fuji would handle a race (I just went out for a couple of training rides with it). I must admit I was impressed by how fast, stiff, and precise Da Monsta was on the race course. I set my Olympic distance PR thanks to her (certainly not because of my swimming :) What would you do differently?: Nothing. I just got my new secret weapon :) Transition 2
Comments: Thanks to my new tri bike shoes I was lighting fast (compared to my standards) also in T2. I took my feet out of the shoes while still riding and jumped off the bike right in front of the timing mat. Ran barefooted towards my rack, dumped Da Monsta, slipped my running shoes on in a second (Yankz! are phenomenal) and I was out on the run leg in abundantly less than two minutes. What would you do differently?: Nothing.  Run
Comments: On the run I felt just great, probably because Da Monsta saved me a lot of energy. I started with a 6:40ish pace which I managed to keep all the way to the finish line thanks to the flatness of the course. I downed a Hammer Gel as soon as I got out of T2 and that provided enough fuel to "hammer" the course ;) I also had a quick stop at the aid station at mile 4 for a cup of Gatorade. Other than that, no further distractions. Well, that's not completely true: My wife and my two girls were waiting for me at mile 6, and as soon they spotted me there was an eruption of cheering! Then my younger daughter started running after me, making the other spectators to laugh like crazy :) What would you do differently?: Nothing Post race
Warm down: Walked to regroup with my family and had some food (banana, orange, bagel) at the finish line. What limited your ability to perform faster: Something was clearly wrong in the swim leg, but I have no idea what exactly the problem was. I need to investigate and improve in that department. Event comments: Overall it was a good race. Nice course, pretty well organized, lots of helpful and friendly volunteers. The only slightly negative spot was the post race festivities (practically absent), but that's OK considering that all the proceeds from the race go to local organizations supporting sports activities for young people. Last updated: 2009-07-23 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 131/1060
Age Group = M40-44
Age Group Rank = 24/96
Drove to SC on Saturday with the whole family. After picking up the race packet we spent the afternoon on the beach playing with the kids. At sunset we had a nice dinner at the Aquarius restaurant and then we went back to our hotel room. Woke up at 6:00 and went over my gear once more, and then headed to the transition area. Setup my stuff, had a funny/surreal chat with one of the friendly volunteers about shark attack avoidance techniques (she was suggesting to pull out an orange when a shark comes at you and start peeling it. That will scare the heck out of the shark, and he'll run away :) Then I put on my wetsuit (I packed an orange just in case :) and headed to the beach. Waited for the first wave to start and then downed a Hammer gel.
After the gel I jumped into the water and swam for 10 minutes. Then I headed towards the corral and waited for the horn.