Maple Grove Triathlon: Dare to TRI - Olympic Course - TriathlonOlympic

Pretty good swim overall. My goofy ass tried to use all the racing techniques I could from the swim clinic they had 2 weeks ago. I did a good job dolphin diving in (though I don't know that it really helped). My sighting was much better for this than Lifetime. I did the windmill at the first turn (!), and had the chance to draft on the swim back in, leading to one glancing kick to the face. Finished with dolphin dive out of the water

Not much. Only do more swim training

only part I had trouble with was getting my left arm (with watch) out of the suit. I did get passed by one of the guys I was drafting with on the swim in before we got to the timing mat. My timing chip was under the suit and not a problem.

Maybe get the watch under the sleeve as well, but I would run the risk of inadvertently stopping it and not being able to see it during the swim (which really wouldn't be a loss). Maybe learn to get into the shoes on the bike. Everything else was good

I Had hard time getting my HR down after the swim. Was as high as 181 coming up the hill out of the park, and stayed above 170 until the turn at 116. Generally was doing well. Boosted CVC flew by after I crossed 10. Occasionally passed others, but I didn't really expect to pass a lot of people, given that I was in the first wave after the Elites, and the Tristar111 folks got a 15 minute head start to go 500 yards shorter on the swim. After the turn onto Cty 19, I looked at my rear gear set, as it wasn't consistently downshifting. When I picked my head up, I was just about to drop off the shoulder. I tried to quickly turn it back, which was probably my next mistake. Front wheel went off the pavement with about a 3 inch edge. I then fell back to the left onto the pavement and over the handlebars. To add insult to injury, both of my calves cramped up tight! It took about a minute to work the cramp out, another minute to figure out I wasn't seriously injured (aside from the road rash) nor missing any teeth, and another minute to look over the bike. I bent in the hood on my left handle bar pretty badly, but conveniently I don't brake the front wheel very much, and I never shift off the big cog on the crank. Everything else was fine, and I rode angry the rest of the way back in. I went off the shoulder again on 101, but was able to get it back on the road without trouble this time.

I wasn't concentrating on the road out there. I'm very lucky that I wasn't seriously injured (I did have a nice scrape on my helmet), but I definitely need to stay focused. The fall cost me the three minutes I needed to reach my goal time of 1:15.

forgot to grab my number belt. Again, head was not in the game.

Nothing

Great run! My goal was to break 50 minutes, given the hills on the course. I did that with no trouble. Pace was almost perfect for me. Saw very few people at my same pace, and the two guys I spent anytime talking to were both BT'ers (grbac6800 and Me_Xman). grbac, i greatly appreciated your comments on the offical thread. Got smoked by Claire Bootsma finishing her second lap when I was coming around for my first. Basically just had to run my own race, but did well despite the distraction of the bleeding.

Nothing!! Overall a great run and a personal best!

water water water, and a little stretching. Made a spectacle of myself in the post-race zone. I didn't notice as much, but my friend John told me there were A LOT of people staring at me after the race. The first-aid crew found me and said "we heard reports of someone bleeding over here." I said, "yep, you found me!"


Obviously, the fall. I would have finished my bike right at my goal time, and my overall time would have been 2 minutes faster than my "high bar" goal. Otherwise, it was a great race for me!


After going to Lifetime, where I ran into a lifeguard every 50 yards, here they were very sparse out on the course. I wasn't likely to be a person who was going to need one, but that could have been bad. Also, the water stations on the run seemed somewhat sparsely populated. Aside from the waves starting 5-6 minutes late (which really there is no excuse for), I thought it was pretty well organized. We'll definitely be back next year, hopefully with my wife tri'ing too!