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Comments: As my ranking demonstrates, I still have a long way to go as far as improving my swim. I did feel much more comfortable on this swim than I did at the sprint I did last month. The wetsuit makes a huge difference. This time instead of being lost way behind my wave and pretty much getting overtaken by the next two waves, I seemed to be battling it out with the BOP of my wave the entire time. I got punched in the left side of my face at one point on the cheekbone just below my left eye. My goggles stayed on which was great and I was pretty impressed that the dude that hit me was able to apologize ("sorry!") and get a good breath which coordinated with my turn for a breath as well. No harm done. since I was in the pack the whole time, naivgation wasn't much of an issue. I just stayed with everybody else and that worked out well. What would you do differently?: I think I could probably push it a little harder. I was being overly conservative after my breathing difficulties at Wildbear last month.  Transition 1
Comments: Transition time definately needs to be fine tuned. I got changed and took 3 endurolytes and one Hammer Gel. What would you do differently?: Practice more  Bike
Comments: The bike was my strong leg for this race. There was on guy that I traded a lead with for pretty much the entire race, but I didn't feel as though it was pushing me too hard. Having the gatorade instead of my lame attempts at homemade sport drink definately improved my consumption and actually got almost all of the 48 oz I took with me down during the ride without any difficulty. Although I took the endurolyte caps at T1, I still suffered with a couple of leg cramps about 15 miles out, but I think that pushing the fluids helped with that some. What would you do differently?: Not much. I will make a priority to get some aerobar clip-ons before next season and am considering a power tap as well as a heart rate monitor to gauge my exertion better. Transition 2
Comments: My T2 wasn't much better. I spent alot of time getting my running shoe laces tight and laced. I took a couple more endurolytes caps. What would you do differently?: I need to get some speed laces for my running shoes to cut down on this transiton time.  Run
Comments: I started out with an 8 minute/mile pace which seemed to keep my legs happy. My breathing was ok, so although I hadn't done any running in over 2 weeks I didn't feel too fatigued. Around the 4th mile, the left leg started to spasm a little and I feared it was about to pull and I would have to walk the rest of the way, so I slowed the pace a little, pleaded with the leg, and focused on keeping more on my toes and less on my heels. That worked well and I was able pick it up a little at the end. What would you do differently?: Try not to injure myself by over training two weeks prior to a race! Post race
Warm down: After massage walked around with Rhonda. Drank some water and then went to the Lobsterbake and feasted.!! What limited your ability to perform faster: Concern about my left leg. Event comments: Overall pretty happy with my first Oly. The swim was a big improvement for me and happy that my leg held out on the run although I wish I was able to have run it about 1min/mile faster. Profile Album Last updated: 2006-07-06 12:00 AM
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Tri-Maine
75F / 24C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 74/320
Age Group = M3539
Age Group Rank = 13/43
Up shortly after 5am. Had a bowl of cereal and a cup of coffee. Out the door by 5:40 and at the park shortly after 6. Got my transition area set up. After using the rest room , I went back to get my shoes to start my warm-up and an official told me I was in the wrong space. The area was set up so that there were about 6 or 7 bikes between each vertical bar and my number was the cut off for the section I was in except I misunderstood where the section started and placed it on the wrong side of the bar which meant I was only about 8inches from where I was supposed to be and the section I was asked to move into was already pretty crowded and one I was in, although technically the wrong section, was rather sparcely used. I took a deep breath and agreed to move my bike and the rest of my stuff into a very narrow space that a couple of other guys made for me.
Slow run for about 7 minutes. The leg didn't give any hint that the running was aggrivating it, so I slowly increased my pace to about an 8minute and held that for about 3 minutes. Then walked about another minute. Changed into bike shoes and rode the bike out of the park approx 3miles, with a couple of hills. Rechecked the bike and back into transiton and got my wetsuit on. Since I was recovering from a major case of suit rash on the back of my neck from an OWS last week, I was rather liberal with the bodyglide, especially around my neck. I had then put my goggles on and let then hang around my neck. When I went into the water for a warm up and put my goggles on, I realized I couldn't see sh** through the thick film of body glide on my lenses and the grease wouldn't wipe off in the water!! I had to wade back to shore and find Rhonda and borrow her shirt to wipe as much of that stuff off as possible. It wasn't clear, but at least I could see somewhat!