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Comments: OK swim I guess. The first loop was bad navigationally, but I corrected my mistakes on the 2nd loop and it went much better. I may have been a little too close to the start at the beginning as it was a complete mosh pit for the first 100-200 yards. Considering the conditions, I felt I handled it pretty well and was to the first buoy still in the mix with the "FOP". I wasn't in the lead by any means, but probably top 20 or so. It was on my way to the 2nd bouy when I went way off course and again to the 3rd and 4th bouy. It was tough heading to the 5th buoy as it was right into the sun, so it was hard to see. Like I mentioned, the 2nd loop was much better. Kept my effort in check and just cruised. Love swimming with the wetsuit. Overall, other than the poor navigation on th efirst loop, I was content with the swim. What would you do differently?: Realize that it doesn't matter how fast I'm swimming, if I'm not swimming directly to the buoys. Site more!  Transition 1
Comments: Nothing special. Stayed calm. Didn't rush so much as to fumble around or forget something. Shoes on bike. Got on bike and up to a decent speed and put feet in shoes. What would you do differently?: Nothing  Bike
Comments: A couple of sections where the road was a little rough. Had a crosswind for the majority of the first 20-25 miles. A bit of tailwind for roughly miles 30-45, give or take, and then a strong headwind for the majority of the last 8-10 miles. OK ride, I guess. i was right at 21 MPH average at the 2 hour mark, but the last 10 miles had me down to around 18-19 mph with the headwind and that dropped my average and took a little bit more out of me than what I wanted right before i was going into the run. What would you do differently?: Nothing Transition 2
Comments: No times for T2, but I had a good dismount. Got socks and shoes on fast, visor on, grabbed a couple of GU's and headed off. What would you do differently?: Nothing  Run
Comments: Well, I started off feeling pretty strong, however, there were no mile markers so I had no idea what kind of pace I was doing. At about the 25 minute mark, I started to feel that whatever pace I was pushing, was a bit too fast to sustain so I backed off a little. At about the 35 minute mark I realized that either that initial pace had done me in or I just was not drinking enough, because I started to feel a bit overheated and started to struggle to keep any kind of decent pace. At the turn around, I took a bottle of water from a volunteer and decided to walk for about 30 seconds or so to get rehydrated and poor some over my head to try and cool down. As I started to run again, BAM...and there's the knee pain. The next 6 miles or so were a combination of walk and my patented "limp run" which had to look pretty funny, but was the only way I could run without having excruciating knee pain. What would you do differently?: Maybe start out a bit slower as to not have to walk during that water break as that is what seemed to trigger the knee pain. Post race
Warm down: Because of the diminished effort in the last half of the run, I really wasn't that tired, but I tried to find a place to sit and watch my beautiful "PREGNANT" wife get 5th place overall in the Olympic...and she wasn't even trying!! as the doctor told her it was OK to train and race, but to keep the effort (HR) in check. So proud of her. I ate some cold chicken and rice as the pizza was all gone!! Not cool. What limited your ability to perform faster: Lack of run training in the last 4 weeks, but mainly my IT band issues. Event comments: OK race. No bells and whistles. Swim course was good. Bike course is pretty good other than a few rough spots in the road. Run course was not properly set up. There was the Olympic distance tri going on at the same time and the run was basically the same as the 70.3 race, except we did 2 loops. Well, a 10K is 6.2 miles so if you double that it's only 12.4 miles. Well, they had us do a U turn on one of the roads and had the Olympic tri'ers go down and do their Uturn about a 1/4 mile further down. I think they had it backwards as I am hearing the Olympic run was too long and our run was too short. Last updated: 2011-01-01 12:00 AM
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Got up around 5:00. Ate a Clif Bar, Honey waffle and drank a cup of coffee and a glass of water. Got to the race about 6:15 or so. Set up transition, got marked, went to the bathroom and waited around for the start.
Not much of a warmup. Jogged a bit, but not too much considering the knee issues I have been having. I didn't want to aggravate the knee before the race even started. Got in the water and swam about 100 yards or so. Treaded water for about 5 minutes or so waiting for the race to start.Started about 5-7 minutes late.
This was my 2nd 70.3 race. I had a lot more excitement for the first one as I was certain this was not going to be a record breaking day for me. My swim and bike fitness was OK, I felt, but I wasn;t sure what to expect of my run. About 4 weeks ago, I did something to what I believe is my IT band. Since then I have not ben able to run more than 5 miles without it starting to hurt. I took a week and half off from running all together and although I was only 7 weeks out from a marathon and the training that goes with it, I just wasn't confident that I could get through the run, mainly because of the inevitable knee pain, but also, I just really haven't run that much over the last 4 weeks.