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Comments: My swim was took 3 minutes longer than the swim 2 weeks ago at Belews Lake. I paniced at the beginning and could not get my breathing right. It took me about 10 minutes to get into any kind of rhythm.I bumped into a few people and I think that messed me up. What would you do differently?: Practice swimming in the lake with people bumping into me.  Transition 1
Comments: My transitons are always slow. What would you do differently?: I need to practice running and biking without socks. that will probably save me about 30 seconds in transition.  Bike
Comments: I rode hard on the bike. I like a flat course! What would you do differently?: more bike time. Transition 2
Comments: About average for me. What would you do differently?: Practice my transitions.  Run
Comments: It was hot.I took a plastic water bottle with me and poured the water on my head during the first half of the run. That helped a lot. I will try to do this on future runs. I left it all out on the course. I tied to break 30 minutes and almost made it. What would you do differently?: I am slow. I will need to lose more weight if I want to get faster. I am not sure I want to do that. Post race
Warm down: hugged Sallie who was working the race. She was a real encouragement to me.Nobody else from our running group was at the race. What limited your ability to perform faster: get more comfortable with my swimming. Event comments: White Lake is a beautiful venue especially the lake itself.It is about 10 feet deep and has a sandy bottom. You can actually see the bottom for the whole swim. Last updated: 2010-03-07 12:00 AM
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80F / 27C
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Overall Rank = 253/294
Age Group = 60-64
Age Group Rank = 7/7
I arrived in White Lake the day before and got to meet some Beginner Triathlete folks who had just finished a half ironman. They finished the half when it was about 90 degrees.I stayed at Langstons motel. It was not great but the room was clean. I brought my own food because there are not many restaurants around.
Rode my bike from the motel to the race site-about 2 miles away. Parking is pretty limited at the race site. Ran a little to get my heart rate up and listened to music on my ipod.Ran into Tarina-one of my oldest daughter's classmates. That was fun. She has 2 kids! Boy, I am getting old.
Got in the water with my wetsuit about 15 minutes before my swim time. Water felt great.