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Comments: The water was 84 Degrees!! Geeze, it was like taking a bath. I was walking into transition when they announced the water temp and that there would be no wetsuits aloud and this girl started cussing about it. Geeze, I didn't think wetsuits would make THAT big of a difference. It is 84 degrees!! Not like she was going to freeze to death. Anyway, this made me really happy seeing as the outside temp at this time was in the 60's. I liked the way that this ran. They had people line up by estimated swim time then sent 4 people at a time every 5-10 seconds. There were lots of people, but it was spread out enought that you weren't constantly running over people. Once in the water, I was immediately thrown off. You could not see ANYTHING in this water. I could barely see my hands in front of my face. As I said earlier, there wasn't a lot of congestion so it wasn't too bad but it was pretty weird. When I first started out, I kept running into the lane line, so I had to resort to sighting pretty much every other stroke. I had to resort to breast stroke a few times just to figure out where I was and get back on track. There was one area that I really didn't like at all. At the middle part of the M, there was a guard stand that you had to swim around, but the problem was that it was so shallow, that EVERYONE was walking around it. It was a nice rest, but geeze, talk about throwing you off. You just start getting into the flow, and you have to standup, walk around a stand, and then start swimming again. Totally weird. What would you do differently?: Over all I think I had an ok swim. This being my first, I really just wanted to come in under 2min/100, and I did that, just barely, but I did it!! I need more time in the water for sure. Going to use the off season to work on my stroke form. Need to be able to find my rhythm better. NOT GET FOOD POISONING THE DAY BEFORE!  Transition 1
Comments: Not the greatest of transitions. There was a bit of a hike between the water and the transition area. Had to walk a bit to get the water out of my ears. I really should use ear plugs. Jogged the rest of the way into transition. Someones bike had fallen on top of all my stuff, so it took a little extra to move that out of the way to get to my stuff, but over all this was about average for my age group. What would you do differently?: Jog all the way from the swim finish to the transition area.  Bike
Comments: This was NOT a 12 mile bike ride. It was more like 13.8. However, I am SO pleased with how I did on this bike portion. All I wanted was to come in under an hour and I did it by 13 minutes!! During the first loop, I started to lose it a littl bit and was thinking that it was going to be a VERY long second loop, but my legs kicked in and I was crusing during the second loop. Got up to 26.5 on a small downhill section, that was fun, and passed more people in the second loop than the first. What would you do differently?: Next year, I am going to ROCK the bike portion. I knew that I didn't have much time in the saddle as I had just gotten the new bike, but I beat my estimate by 13 minutes! Lots of time in the saddle this off season. NOT GET FOOD POISIONING THE DAY BEFORE! Transition 2
Comments: This went pretty quick. Got the bike on. Already had my shoes on. Got a quick drink, put on race belt, and headed out. What would you do differently?: Not much. Maybe move faster.  Run
Comments: This run was not the greatest, but it was all I had left in the tank. I was pretty much on E. So it shouldn't come as a big suprise that I wiped out. Yes, I fell on the run. I felt like such a dork! I was moving out of the way to grab some water and walk through the water station, triped over so raised tar and wiped out. Yes, I am that cool. You all wish that you could be as graceful. So walked for about a minute after that to compose myself and ran the rest of the way in. What would you do differently?: Not trip and fall down! In all honesty though, I hate running. It is my least favorite of all the areas. I did not train enough for it. If you look at my logs, you will see very little running time. I know I can do better than this and will use the off season to start getting a better base. NOT GET FOOD POISONING THE DAY BEFORE! Post race
Warm down: After I was done hyperventilating and could breath again, ate a banana. Met up with the Hubby and my Dad. Walked around, did some light stretching, got the heck out. What limited your ability to perform faster: Getting food poisoning the day before! Really just need more time in the saddle and I really need to work on my running. Event comments: This really is a great race. The swim starts are a really good. It was perfect for my first tri! I am really SO pleased with how I did, even considering the food poisoning the day before. The first place girl in my age group only beat me by 15 minutes! I can't wait to race this one next year to see how I improve. I am going to rock it! Last updated: 2006-06-19 12:00 AM
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80F / 27C
Sunny
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Age Group = 25-29 F
Age Group Rank = 28/67
Well, the whole story really start at the White Sox game the day before the race. We went with our bowling league where free food and drinks were being offered. Well, being the lucky person that I am, I of course am the only person in the group to contract food poisoning. Go figure it is the day before my very first triathlon, that I have been training months for. So needless to say, I was not happy when I thought I wasn't going to be able to make it. Well, it turns out that after sitting/hugging the toilet pretty much the whole night, I felt good enough to do the race and was ready to go. Woke up about 3:30am, after about 2 hours worth of sleep. Was in a panic to get all my stuff together as I didn't have a chance to do it the day before. Luckly I had most of it pretty well organized so it wasn't to bad of a job. Was planning on having a bagel with peanut butter, but decided it was too risky with my stomach and tried to eat toast instead. Well, less than half a piece later, decided that I wasn't going to be able to eat much of anything so I settled for about 5 bite-size cookies, gatorade, and a shot of peptobismol (nasty stuff, blah). Woke-up the hubby around 4:30 and was on the road to the race by 5:15. I like about 15 minutes away from the race site, so we had no problems finding parking and got there right as the transition was opening.
Got myself numbered, picked up my time chip and went into the transition. This worked out really well because everyone was assigned a transition spot based on their number. I was pretty much right in the middle of the bike in/out and run in/out so it worked out pretty well. Didn't really do much warmup. Walked around with the hubby checking stuff out, met up with my Dad. Did some light stretching, checked out the swim course and made sure I knew where my rack was at. Luckly I was in the same row as a person that had a Nemo balloon, so it made it pretty easy to find!