IronGear Sports Rio Salado Triathlon - Olympic Course - TriathlonOlympic


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Tempe, Arizona
United States
Red Rock Company
Total Time = 2h 20m 2s
Overall Rank = 2/96
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 1/16
Pre-race routine:

Very relaxed race morning. Drove over to Tempe by myself, ate breakfast in the car. The family were going to a track meet, so I was solo.
Event warmup:

Found my friends and set up our tent, got my timing chip and watched the sprint start before getting in to my wetsuit.
Swim
  • 28m 45s
  • 1640 yards
  • 01m 45s / 100 yards
Comments:

Good swim for me. I was in wave 7, started up front and it didnt seem long before we caught the wave in front. Sighting was tricky going east into the sun, I was looking forward to the swim back west but my goggles fogged up as soon as I turned. Still, did OK, kept a comfortable pace. Was right at 28 mins when I exited the water.
Transition 1
  • 01m 16s
Comments:

Nice to have the wetsuit strippers, once I had my suit off, I jogged to transition.
Bike
  • 1h 05m 10s
  • 24.85 miles
  • 22.88 mile/hr
Comments:

2 loop course, not as congested as I thought it would be. Decent ride for me. I was hoping that if I held back a bit on the bike, I'd have fresher legs on the run. Maybe held back too much, I think I could have easily taken 1 minute per lap off. Had fun catching up to my friend who was in the previous wave, then he did a good job of keeping me in sight after that. It was also nice to hear my friends cheering us on the hot corner!
Transition 2
  • 01m 7s
Run
  • 43m 40s
  • 6.21 miles
  • 07m 02s  min/mile
Comments:

2 loops around Tempe lake. It was starting to get hot. I ran the first 2 miles very comfortably, then just tried to hold the sub-7 pace. I was hoping to negative split the run but I think I was a little bit slower the 2nd lap. There were a lot more people on the course on lap 2. Looked at my watch as I came over the bridge towards the finish and saw 2:19:xx so I tried to sprint it in and go under 2:20, just missed it.
Post race
Warm down:

Hung out with friends, got my bike etc and waited for results then awards. The girl that came in 1st is a pro, they took the pros out and gave them their own awards, so I got 1st place amateur. It was a nice comeback race in Tempe. My good friend was racing her first tri in 2 years and took 2nd in her AG, it was a fun day! I headed over to a track meet in Mesa to see my son race, not the bet way to recover post-race- 6 hours out in the heat but he got an 800m PR and his 4x400m relay team took 2nd. I was pretty tired and dehydrated by the end of the day!

What limited your ability to perform faster:

I'm still learnign how to race this distance. I think the bike is my strength just now and it's a fine line between pushing hard enough on the bike to take advantage of that strength, versus going too hard and having dead legs for the run. I don't think that the OLY distance is my best, due to the comparative length of the swim, but time wise, it's the easiset for me to tarin for just now.

Event comments:

Redrock are a great race company. Their volunteers are awesome and their T shirts and Visors rock! I got a really nice vase as an award! So glad they were able to put on a triathlon after all the bad luck they had with the lake.




Last updated: 2011-05-07 12:00 AM
Swimming
00:28:45 | 1640 yards | 01m 45s / 100yards
Age Group: 0/16
Overall: 0/96
Performance:
Suit:
Course:
Start type: Plus:
Water temp: 0F / 0C Current:
200M Perf. Remainder:
Breathing: Drafting:
Waves: Navigation:
Rounding:
T1
Time: 01:16
Performance:
Cap removal: Helmet on/
Suit off:
Wetsuit stuck? Run with bike:
Jump on bike:
Getting up to speed:
Biking
01:05:10 | 24.85 miles | 22.88 mile/hr
Age Group: 0/16
Overall: 0/96
Performance:
Wind:
Course:
Road:   Cadence:
Turns: Cornering:
Gear changes: Hills:
Race pace: Drinks:
T2
Time: 01:07
Overall:
Riding w/ feet on shoes
Jumping off bike
Running with bike
Racking bike
Shoe and helmet removal
Running
00:43:40 | 06.21 miles | 07m 02s  min/mile
Age Group: 0/16
Overall: 0/96
Performance:
Course:
Keeping cool Drinking
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall:
Mental exertion [1-5]
Physical exertion [1-5]
Good race?
Evaluation
Course challenge
Organized?
Events on-time?
Lots of volunteers?
Plenty of drinks?
Post race activities:
Race evaluation [1-5]