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Comments: i knew from swimming the day before to site off a light house and a then a big brown house. what i was really interested in though was what the currents were doing. so after watching the first two waves go off i knew it was left to right. just to make sure i walked into the wheelhouse and asked the captain what he thought. yep, left to right. finally, our boat pulled to the start. we had 140 in our wave. andy and i were standing by the door so were were first off. i immediately headed for the left buoy. got there and after waiting for a few minutes was very surprised to see that not many people joined us over there. i started up front left side. great start. i got out fast so here was little contact. and apparently that was the last thing for this race that i did well. this swim seemed to go on FOREVER. seems this was general consensus afterwords. the little swell and the wide open course made it difficult to find someone to draft off. i looked and kept looking but we were just getting bounced around. don't think i ever really found a groove. sometime i was tired and others i was feeling good. one thing i'm really pumped about is i never gave sharks a thought. i'm getting more comfortable swimming a long ways in different waters. What would you do differently?: swim more.  Transition 1
Comments: i had the fastest T1 in my a/g. thats good. swim out to transition was a 2.5 block run. LOOOOOONG ways. What would you do differently?: kiss any hot chicks i see. if i'm first then i have a few seconds to spare.  Bike
Comments: i don't know. its easy to type things in the swim part of this report but i don't know what to type here. it took me ~6 miles before i was comfortable. i'm sure it had to do with the bridge. i did pass more people then i usually do. but still got passed a lot. i don't even know what i was thinking coming out of my shoes. i think i took my right shoe off 2 miles before transition. the breeze did feel nice through my toes though. What would you do differently?: bring my bike on the boat with me for the swim start. jump in with it. then get to transition and throw my hands in the air wondering why someone stole my bike. Transition 2
Comments: ha! this is the one part i feel good about for sucking. i never looked at my row from bike in while setting up transition. shame on me. so when i arrived in transition i went down three rows looking for my bike. people were cheering for me when i found it. awesome. i went down the first row i thought i was on. wrong. second row. wrong. third row. amen. What would you do differently?: seems i should should put up a half dozen balloons. and hire some and giraffe or something to stand their so i know where to go.  Run
Comments: i don't know. just horrible. i just don't know what happened here. really there is nothing to say. What would you do differently?: run. Post race
Warm down: i was really bummed about my performance. pretty much i sucked. What limited your ability to perform faster: you tell me. Event comments: awesome! OUL did a fantastic job, especially for a first year race. volunteers were great. course was well guarded. beer was iced down this time! ;-) Profile Album Last updated: 2010-03-30 12:00 AM
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drove down saturday afternoon to check my bike and pick up my packet. bike check was canceled due to the weather so i grabbed the packet and hung out for a few other BTer's to get there for a swim.
The peeps showed up and we went for a dip. the swim was in galveston bay which is shallow but windy. Bad combo if the wind is blowing right, which it was.
Water was 2-3 foot. not huge by any stretch but man was it fun! siting was a challenge and it was a little comforting to see erin's green cap or ritter's shaved head next to me when breathing. stephen you swim to fast man! this was my favorite part of the weekend next to finishing with the kiddos and jarrett.
sunday morning was the first sign things were not gonna go right. alarm was set for 3:15 to meet justin. one of my dogs was sleeping up by my head. he farted about 3:10. worst fart ever. not only did it wake me up but i had to get out of bed to escape it.
showered, ate a bowl of raisin bran and hit the road.
ran .5 mile with. first time wearing my new top. damn if my beer gut wasn't popping out of it. yeah yeah, nothing new raceday.
walked over to the boats with justin and andy. gave justin a high five told him he sucked and got on our boat.
boat ride out to the start was awesome. we were the third boat, ~140 people per boat to go. so we got to watch the first few waves go off.