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Comments: No panic attack! No backstroke! Success! Swim was nice and smooth- until the men caught up to me and I got run into a few times. But even that wasn't too bad. Swam pretty much in a straight line, sighting was more decent than I thought it'd be. To compare to my last race: Ironclad (5/30/10) swim time: 27:14  Transition 1
Comments: Good- Ironclad (5/30/10) T1 time: 4:13  Bike
Comments: A little hilly and many turns. I'm glad I didn't bother going up there to try out the course because they had to change it two days before the race due to unexpected road work. Ironclad (5/30/10) bike time: 46:42 What would you do differently?: Hills could've been better. I'm surprised this was only a tiny bit faster than Ironclad. Also, bike computer didn't work. That would've been nice. I changed the batter in the computer, but I guess the sensor's battery needed to be changed too. One more thing: nutrition/hydration could've been better. I had one Gu chomp and a few sips of water, but that was it. Transition 2
Comments: Timing got messed up and most people's T2s didn't get recorded. I'd guess it was about 2 minutes, but I have no idea. Ironclad (5/30/10) T2 time: 2:04  Run
Comments: The sun was super hot at this point. Lower legs started seizing up- nooooo! I had to stop and walk three times. That was disappointing. Especially now that I look at my times- I definitely could have moved up a couple of places in my AG if I hadn't walked. But I was hurting- after we passed the boats in the marina and I ran out of things to look at, I started reciting the alphabet forwards and backwards over and over again to distract myself! Oh well. Good sprint to the finish. And compared to my last run time (at least four minutes slower), this was great! Those runs off the bike must have really helped. Ironclad (5/30/10) run time: 32:34 What would you do differently?: Not walk! Try to stretch out calves on the bike? Post race
Warm down: Walked around for 5-10 minutes, chugged a bottle of water. Got a massage. Ate a LOT (bread, pasta salad, peach, cashews). Had another bottle of water. What limited your ability to perform faster: Hot sun. Crampy lower legs. Event comments: This was a really great race- tons of volunteers, cold water, amazing food (the warm bread and pasta salad blew away the usual bagels and orange slices- although they had those too). Volunteers were super friendly- including the massage therapists and the bike shop that was there to help. Not too many spectators, but I may have been more sensitive to that since nobody came to the race with me. Beautiful setting. Overall, totally worth the hour and ten minute drive. Last updated: 2010-04-23 12:00 AM
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Team Mossman
90F / 32C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 451/566
Age Group = F 25-29
Age Group Rank = 23/34
Got there at 4:45 (6:30 AM race start), after an hour-plus drive, to pick up my packet, which they warned would take an hour. It took about two minutes. So I had plenty of time to set up transition, go to the bathroom five times, and get in the water for a nice long warm-up. The 3 AM wake-up call was painful but I'm glad I was so early.
Also inflated my tires, which had not been inflated since I brought my bike into the shop for a repair in April. Oops! Guess I need to invest in a pump.
Swam in the water with wetsuit on.