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Comments: Swim went pretty well. It was very short and I had to pass a guy. That slowed me down a bit. My breathing was sub-par and I couldn't get into a rythem. What would you do differently?: Relax and maintain a rythem, although this was basically a sprint so there wasn't much time to find my rythem.  Transition 1
Comments: I need to toughen up my feet so that I can run with the bike in bare feet. That was my limiter in T1. I also had trouble getting my feet into my shoes. It was still better than any other T1 that I've done. What would you do differently?: Practice more.  Bike
Comments: Right out of T1 there were four of us that were leading our heat and we get to the first intersection and the traffic cop points to the left. Given the unorganized nature of the race I'm sure we all thought they had changed the coarse..... They didn't! I lost about 30-40 seconds on that little fiasco. I managed to catch everyone in my heat and quite a few of the first two heats. I really felt fast on the coarse except for the numerous turns. On the last loop I finally got comfortable enough to stay off the brakes in the corners, except for one. There was one blind intersection that had nobody stopping traffic. It's amazing that someone didn't get hit. What would you do differently?: Do my own thing and not follow some other dumb @$$! I knew the coarse, I was just an idiot and followed someone else. That won't happen in Boulder! Transition 2
Comments: I miss judged the distance it would take to get my feet out of my shoes and had to unclip and run in my shoes. I was probably just as fast doing it this way due to the rough asphalt and my soft feet. I'm still fairly happy with it. What would you do differently?: Practice more!  Run
Comments: This was a very fast pace for me and I'm sure it will get better, but I still feel pretty inadiquate when I got dropped by a women. It's an ego thing. I was able to catch a couple of guys in front of me and keep the other close so I can't complain too much. I just need to run faster! What would you do differently?: My calves tried to cramp up a bit and I had to run through it. I need to do more hard bricks. Post race
Warm down: BEER! What limited your ability to perform faster: Time. It's early and I will get faster, but I'm frequently reminded that this was only my third race.....ever! I need to get faster on the run! Event comments: I'm glad it was a C race considering the timing issues were dissappointing. I was still a great time and I finally felt like a triathlete. My other races left me with a feeling of just finishing, this one made me feel fast. I guess it's all in those you're racing against. Last updated: 2006-04-26 12:00 AM
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Commerce City Recreation Center
70F / 21C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 37/235
Age Group = 30-34
Age Group Rank = 3/19
I didn't sleep very well the night before but I woke up feeling pretty fresh. I was a lot more nervous than I thought I would be. Jen and I got up at 4:00am and arrived right after Mark. I really thought we would beat him there. It was kinda nice, I was able to get a transition spot right on the end.
I didn't get much of a warm up. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out where we were supposed to be. The whole pre-race wasn't very organized and I had forgotten to put a marker in my bag so we had to search for someone to body mark us.
While standing there waiting for my swim heat, I had a guy named John standing next to me who was apperantly a nervous talker cause he wouldn't shut the hell up. I was trying to do the whole 'visualization thing' and it's hard to do when someone is talking to you.