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Comments: I thought my swim was pretty good. Took a little longer to hit my stride, and by that time I was actually passing swimmers from the 2 waves in front of me. I never before recall passing many swimmers, let alone those that started 5-10 min before me, that was a great confidence boot that my swim was ok. Sighting and navigation were point on, hugged the bouys to my left. After the second turn, the last yellow bouy was very difficult to see with the glaring sun, but once it poped into sight I picked up the pace. Strong finish, however, either I failed to hit start on my Garmmin, or didn't hit it hard enough because it read 00:00:00 when I exited the water, now I was pissed again! What would you do differently?: Not much, outside of making sure my timer was running. Altough it was a bit slow, I thought I had a decent swim.  Transition 1
Comments: I had a decent run to my bike from the swin and my HR was racing, so I opted to slow jog, walk a bit to calm it down. Probably the best decision. No suit made T1 much easier. What would you do differently?: Grabbed a sip of gatorade from a standard screw top bottel in T1, next time wait till I get on the bike and use the bottle on the bike.  Bike
Comments: Ok, so the reality is I pushed the bike too hard! Avg HR of 156 over 40K is too high and I knew it. I kept trying to remind myself that I had a 10K to run in the heat afterwards, but I was blowing by people left and right. I think I only got passed twice, and took great thrill in passing people on tri bikes in aero helmets on my roadie! My bike training the past 2 months really showed up today. Took in 1 ful 1hr bottle of perpetum on the bike + about 5oz of garorade. What would you do differently?: I don't know, I'm torn here. I was pushing hard, maybe too hard? But I was having so much fun and having a great bike leg. Transition 2
Comments: Pretty standard T2. Had a flask of perpetum I chugged down in T2 and took 1 gel with me. What would you do differently?: Nothing  Run
Comments: All was good for the 1st 1/2, then the heat really got to me. Never before have I walked druing a race, it is never an option, today however it wasn't an option to keep running. Wound up walking 3 or 4 times. Never before did I see so many people walking on a course. I saw Elite athletes walking! It was brutal! People cramping everywhere, it was like a battlefield! I was also experiencing some abdominal cramping, not sure what that was about? Anyway... I took water at every aid station except the 1st, took ice rags whenever offered and took extra water to pour on my head. Took a gel at about the 1/2 way mark. Had enough to sprint the finish What would you do differently?: I don't know if it was me pushing to hard on the bike, or the heat probably both that contributed to my bonk. Not sure if it was avoidable. Post race
Warm down: MIST TENT! Massage! Streching! 1/2 pretzle from "buffet" bag and 1 slice of that thing they caled pizza. What limited your ability to perform faster: Heat Event comments: Overall great race, my 3rd CGI race this year and I tell you they do an amazing job! I will do all of their races if I can! Last updated: 2009-09-28 12:00 AM
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CGI Racing
HOTF / 0C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 151/919
Age Group = M30-34
Age Group Rank = 17/87
Alarm set for 4am, but either I didn't hear it or it didn't go off until 4:30. Woke up, packed the car, got the family up and out the door at 5:05am, only 5 min later than planned. Stopped to get breakfast at local 24hr bagel joint, TOOK 20 MIN! I don't know if they were in between shifts, or the new guy had a wicked hangover or something, but it took forever. NEVER AGAIN, make my breakfast at home! Got to the race site around 7AM, almost 1hr later than planned. Hopped out of the car at the sight of the 1st port-a-potty, got my stuff and ran to packet pick-up, they were announcing that transition was closing as I was getting my packet. Now I was stressed as hell! Rushed to get transition set up and ran the 1/4 mile to swim start only to realize I forgot my timing chip, ran back to Transition to get it and now I was stressed and pissed! Not a good way to start the race! Luckily between the pre-race meeting, national anthem and being in the 3rd wave I managed to get in a short warm-up swim and a few minutes to calm myself down before my wave start. Even saw Evan and Yvonne for a minute, thank god she had a bottle of water with her.
Very short swim, barefoot running from transition and backk to get timing chip.