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Comments: So the swim was long. I looked at people that I race against and compared their time and everyone is slower per 100 than previous races. I was off by almost 30seconds per hundred. No biggie everyone did the same course. A confused volunteer was yelling at me to alter my course in the wrong direction which added 50-75 yards to my race. I had to stop and tread water and help them with left vs right from the swimers perspective. It's okay glad they were there in case somehting bad happened. I was fine with the swim with no wetsuit, no panicking, got kicked, clawed and punched but I am comfortable witht he contact now. What would you do differently?: Start on the outside. Swim the little extra in clean water will probably make me faster than trying to sight/battle with everyone else.  Transition 1
Comments: That's a long climb to transition. Cool views on the way up! What would you do differently?: Glad I took the shoes. Nothing.  Bike
Comments: This was a riot. 2 manadtory dismounts, a log crossing, I almost got blindsided by a deer, everyone got lost at some point, there was blood, stitches, wrecks, steep climbs, technical decents etc. Everyone had something to say about the bike course. I loved it. This was my 1st XTERRA and I will be looking at more of these in the future. It was fun, almost like a kid again. What would you do differently?: More practice on the MTB Transition 2
Comments: normal T2  Run
Comments: Brutal, and fun. The course had everything you could ask for in a tough trail run. The PF stayed away and I think I am going to give up run training! :) What would you do differently?: trail runs Post race
Warm down: Walked around, water water and gatorade What limited your ability to perform faster: 1st xterra. I didn't know how I was gonna react off the bike. I hammered the bike (for me) and still managed to put up a decent run, I actually passed some people. Event comments: I rated this race high because for a 1st year race they did a good job and were truly appreciative of constructive critisim. The bike course needed better marking and I believe that will happen. The volunteers were plentiful but maybe didn't quite understand what was going on. This race is in the "wild west". It was part of a double tri weekend and put on by RD's who know what they are doing and will fix the small issues for next year. Bottom line is it was a blast, and I highly recomend it if you have a MTB and like tri's for a change from the same old thing. On a side note I noticed that 1.5 months of MTB training has really helped my confidence on the road too, in terms of handling and short bursts of hard effort to pound out those rollers! Last updated: 2012-07-15 12:00 AM
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United States
Heros Inc
80F / 27C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 44/67
Age Group = M35-39
Age Group Rank = 10/11
Got to the race site the night before for packet pickup and checked into the hotel. Everything was cool and we talked with some fellow tri-club memebers.
Got up race morning and had a sweet potato and some Aleve. I hadn't run in 3 weeks, nursing some PF and was a little worried. Also hadn't done any open water swims without a wetsuit and that realization was also sinking in.
Made it too transisiton and got set up, race director anounced 78.3F water temp. . . no wetsuits. Whatever I wasn't gonna sweat it since this was gonna be my 1st XTERRA and I was looking to have fun.
The lake swim was about 300 vertical feet below the transistion area. To get up/down required using flagstoine paths built back in the day that zigzagged the cliff. Notice the 5+ minute T1. So getting down was a good warmup. I am officially a mamby-bamby according to the RD since I took some old shoes down to the dock for the run back up to T1.