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Comments: My first traithlon and I said I would start slow in the swim portion. Well that was a lie instead of waiting 20-30 seconds to let the wave get away I waited maybe 5 seconds. Just too much excitement. This caused my breathing to go through the roof and to be in the middle of the pack getting hit or running into someone every 5 strokes. I ended up swimming with my head out of the water a lot and almost threw the towel in. Finally after 150 meters it cleared out and I got into a good TI rythym. I hard a horrible time spotting and would almost stop my stroke for spotting. In the end I zig zagged the course figure I added on at least another 150 meters. What would you do differently?: * Wait 20-30's for wave to start and purposelly start slow * Practice deep water starts and starting faster than I expect then forcing myself to slow down. * Train more on spotting every 6 strokes at least * More open water swimming during the summer * Get in the water for a practice swim prior to wave  Transition 1
Comments: Not bad for the first time, but can certainly get the time down. I was out of breath from the swim which never happened in practice so a little slow jogging through transition area. Wetsuit came off pretty easily but had trouble getting gel packs and cliff bar into tri top. Also I put on my bike shoes in transition which are unfortunately tie instead of velcro. Overall though pretty happy as we had a long uphill run with the bike before mounting. What would you do differently?: * Practice transitions more * Practice running bike mount * Upgrade shoes to velcro  Bike
Comments: I underestimated what "rolling hills" meant. They were tough and the area I train is pretty flat so the first loop was a bit painful especially the big hills. Which also means I need to work on smooth gear shifts and cadence on hills. I also was using a basic road bike with flat handle bars and had my bike for only a month before the race due to cash flow. Before that I relied on stationary bike and that just doesn't cut it. The race course was really well marked and the volunteers awesome. One other challenge was I only ate one goo for the bike race not enough for someone my size. Finally my computer didn't work for the bike portion, no idea why because it worked when I took it too the car after the race. What would you do differently?: * Train on bike earlier and not stationary bike * Practice on real hills * Practice turns to keep speed up * Work on gear shifting * Eat more goo to keep energy for run * Check bike computer before race Transition 2
Comments: This was a mess, I guess I was a bit tired. I put my bike on the rack and knocked off my computer. Then started to run with my helmet on, but a volunteer yelled at me thank goodness. Got that fixed and started to run halfway through tranistion area without a race bib. Luckily I remembered it as someone was DQ'd for that in the race. So slow and long time. By the time I finished the transition I was down to a slow jog. What would you do differently?: * Train on transitions more  Run
Comments: I hate running, okay hate is a strong word, but wow I dislike it. In practice coming off the bike it took me a mile to get my legs back this time it took almost 3 miles. The first 3 miles I ended up walking most of the time and it's sad to watch everyone pass you by and it got crowded. Part of the problem is that I didn't eat enough goo, if you can call it eating. So in first mile started on a cliff bar ate half of it. I think that kicked in and my legs came alive the second loop (3.2 miles) as I was able to jog a lot of that, at least the downhills and flats. I will say knowing you have 1 more loop to go was depressing especially after the turn around at 1.5 miles. I just kept thinking if I can finish a marathon I can certainly do this. Ohh, I fell down at the turn around which I seem to do at least once in each race. What would you do differently?: * Train more, train more, train more * Lose weight * Eat more goo\cliff bar prior to run to have energy * Train on "rolling hills" Post race
Warm down: Does collapsing count? I didn't much of a warm down. I had enough energy crossing the finish line to attempt a cartwheel not sure how it came out. After that I just needed to breath a bit. Walked around for awhile, loaded my car and took advantage of the free food for some pasta and bread. What limited your ability to perform faster: * Train more and harder * Nervous and new experience * Spotting well on swim * Hills training bike * Practice transitions more * Eat more during race * Hills training run Event comments: It was my first race and everyone was very helpful. Setup Events staff was friendly and put up with my questions. Hate the run loops but otherwise course was laid out well except for the trail section just had too many roots. Last updated: 2010-10-07 12:00 AM
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Sunny
Overall Rank = 401/412
Age Group = Clydesdales
Age Group Rank = 19/20
This was my first triathlon and I can truly say I was a bit nervous. the night before I drove the bike and run course which gave me a little bit of confidence at least on getting lost. I got there Saturday morning about 8:30 the race started at 10:00 with my wave leaving at 10:18. Setup my stuff and talked to a few people, amazing how nice everyone is at triathlons. 9:45 everyone was kicked out of the transition area so I spent some time with family and friends. About 10:00 started getting my wet suite on, took a lot longer than it had previously. I still got it on in time, but left some skin from my fingertips on it, I have no idea how. Of course this is a 270+ trying to get in an XL suite, XXL was too big I need a half size, argh. Lined up with my wave and started getting nervous, but everyone around me was pretty friendly.
I had wanted to get in the water before the swim, but waited too long a little distracted with my "fan" base. Stretched a little bit and walked the transition area a couple times to get the route down. That's it.