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Comments: Kind of an odd swim, but fun anyway. My time was fine but the field seemed hyped-up, and there was more contact than average for the first half. Watching earlier waves, I planned to run right, dive in, and swim wide out of the narrow chute, but it was obvious a bunch of guys had the same idea. I did run far enough right to dive in without running into someone, but there was a pack, and people were on my outside most of the way. I had people swimming on my legs quite a bit. Because of the pack and frequent contact, I didn't have to sight every 10 or 20 stokes like normal, but stayed in the group. When I did sight, we were pointed well enough. When we hooked back at the third buoy, a lot of people cut to shore and were piled up getting out, so I veered left and swam toward the balloons. As I'd breathe, I could see that staying in the water was at least as fast as what the other people were doing. There was carpet on the path to transition this year. Nice! ![]() Transition 1
Comments: 9th in AG. The suit came off okay. I'd lubed up the ankles with Body Glide and Suit Juice. As usual, I ran through the people mounting their bikes and did a flying mount. The immediate climb up the hill was fine, and I was ready to hammer out of the park. ![]() Bike
Comments: I pushed hard on the first half, and made sure to keep the speed up out of and back into the park. I was a little slower than other years when I was cycling more than once a week, but felt like it was a good ride. I hammered to avoid the surges and packs of previous years, and only got passed by a couple of young guys. There was one crash just in front of me that people had just arrived at, so I passed the word to the next volunteers in case they could call or radio for help. The rider had probably tumbled over a cone, and had hit the pavement with his helmet. Since I have too much experience with this sort of thing, my fingers are crossed that he's okay. Not a bad ride, but it was a perfect measure of training vs. speed. What would you do differently?: I'd clearly be faster if I were riding two or thee times a week. ![]() Transition 2
Comments: 10th in AG. No prob. ![]() Run
Comments: I pushed hard, and am happy with my speed despite my minimal training. ![]() Post race
Warm down: Just a quick round of snacks, and bumped into my friend Gil, who took 2nd in the AG. Event comments: Always a fun race, and the weather was like from a travel ad. Here are the AG results: http://raceresults.eternaltiming.com/index.cfm/20130302_Desert_Tria... http://bit.ly/13whzeq Last updated: 2012-06-16 12:00 AM
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United States
Klein | Clark Sports
64F / 18C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 107/550
Age Group = M50-54
Age Group Rank = 7/34
Up at 4:30, cookies and mocha in the car, at transition when it opened at 5:30. My number was in the batch at the very first rack, so I had the very first spot in transition.
I suited up in time to swim some 50's before the first wave and to look down the buoys to see which hill to sight on - which turned out to be irrelevant with the pack I was in.