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Comments: This swim was - by far - my fastest Oly swim, ever. According to my Garmin, including the run to T1, it was .96 miles, so I think it may have been a little short in the water, but it is what it is. The whole thing felt smooth and fast, and I just focused on sighting, a good catch, and good rotation (especially to my left, which is my weakness). Despite intentions to pay attention to my sighting, I still ended up all over the place and generally did a terrible job of sticking to the buoy line. The back side of the course was directly into the sun, and little surprise that is where I had the most trouble. I didn't think until just now to use the sun-in-the-water trick to help when my face was in the water. What would you do differently?: Better sighting. Could have maybe pushed a little harder, but honestly don't think I needed to.  Transition 1
Comments: Still getting used to getting the wetsuit off over the Garmin, but that's improving. Didn't rush, just moved methodically, and then I was off and going. I had picked a transition spot near Bike Out, so it was a short run and a hop and I was onto the bike course.... What would you do differently?: Nothing, though I could maybe move a little faster.  Bike
Comments: I think I may have ridden beyond my fitness levels on this. My fastest split ever for the distance by a couple of minutes.... but, I think I may have burned too many matches on some parts of it. We had a few long sections of tailwind and I tried to push the biggest gears that I could sustain during those stretches just to make up for how much time I was hemorrhaging on that one big ass hill. I suck at climbing. For as low as my average cadence is, I was actually trying to pay attention to cadence and was focusing on trying to maintain in the neighborhood of 90rpm, but I just didn't do a very good job of it. The utter lack of bike training since March is really starting to show in a big way. What would you do differently?: Train a boatload more on the bike beforehand. Transition 2
Comments: Solid T2 for me. Short run out of T1 means a longer run into T2 and I still haven't started leaving the shoes on the bike, so I'm running in my shoes back to the rack. Taking shoes off adds a little time. Forgot my small handheld water bottle... it would have been useful on the run. I did remember my EnduroCool towel, but I'm not sure if it helped at all. What would you do differently?: Take the water bottle.  Run
Comments: This was just horrendous. I couldn't stay cool, the hip flexors were crying, and I was just .... sloooow. I ended up walking fairly large chunks of this as I was just feeling kinda shot. I was dumping water over me and into me at every aid station, but it just didn't seem to help... I was just crazy hot. I was drinking water and Infinit at most aid stations, and it turned out to be too much.... I started having some seriously gassy belches that I had to slow down for lest I puke. All I could think about was jumping back into the lake right after I crossed the finish. What would you do differently?: I don't even know..... everything?? Post race
Warm down: They had a garden hose of super cold water at the finish line!!!!!!!! I got hosed down, then found a cold water outdoor shower and stood in it for a few minutes. What limited your ability to perform faster: Heat and fitness. Event comments: It would have been good with the heat to have had one more water station at the turn-around of the run, but overall it was good. Events weren't on time, but I can't bag on them for that because you can't control a truck overturning. Overall, it was just a really beautiful course. The water was surprisingly clear (at least in the deeper parts and in the shallows on the first lap before things got churned up a little), and the bike course had almost all newly paved roads with a ton of cool scenery. Even the run, for as brutal as it felt, was kinda beautiful.... in other conditions, it'd actually have been really nice and fun. Profile Album Last updated: 2013-03-26 12:00 AM
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HFP Racing
91F / 33C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 47/139
Age Group = M40-44
Age Group Rank = 10/15
Drove the three hours to the race the day before. Had a small dinner, then was in bed at 10:30pm after watching 'Ted'.... seeing a grown man get his ass beat by a teddy bear just never gets old. Thank God for hotels with HBO :-)
Woke up a little after 5am, made some coffee, packed my stuff and rolled out of the hotel. Showed up to the event around 6:30am, got transition set up, then went over to body marking and to pick up my timing chip.
After that, it was just a lot of standing around chatting with folks. Transition closed at 7:30am and the first Olympic wave wasn't until nearly 8:30am (late start due to a truck over-turned on the bike course).
Go in the water and did a quick 200m around 7:45am. Then with all of the extra standing about because of the truck, I was nearly overheating in the wetsuit... so, between the last Sprint wave and the first Oly, I unzipped the wetsuit and floated myself in the water a bit to cool off.