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Comments: I've got to thank Samuel Law of Playtri in Dallas for my swim performace. I was a slow plow in the water and decided to take a lesson with Playtri. In one lesson with just a few tweeks, Samuel helped to shave almost a minute off my 100 yard time. I was expecting to take about 12 minutes for the swim but came out of the water in just under 10 min. What would you do differently?: Get lessons sooner. LOL. Really nothing. Being my first tri I had a lot to work on and I was real happy with the performance on the swim.  Transition 1
Comments: The lake level is really low so we had a good hike across the beach. There were wetsuit strippers but since I was in a late wave I decided to skip it and not get sand all over myself. Just under a quarter mile jog into T1 and the heart rate was up a little. Took my time to clean the feet and went ahead and put socks on. Went smooth. What would you do differently?: Just more practice with more races to develope a solid routine.  Bike
Comments: Similar to my swim, I have to thank Marc and Shane for the BT Power Mentor Group. I ride a 2012 Scott CR1 Team that I added a Power2Max to about a month ago. All of the winter training paid off and I only got passed by the high end super bikes. LOL. I did a fair amount of passing myself and even passed a few of the tri bike. HA.My FTP is 223 and I was wanting to hold about 200 watts for the bike leg. I ended up with a normalized power of 208 and felt good coming off the bike. One scary moment ont he bike when a competitor was trying to remount the bike on the side of the road and pulled out crossways in the bike lane. Little pucker factor and brake check but managed to miss what could have beena bad day. What would you do differently?: Nothing, Marc and Shane got me right where I needed to be with the best time I could hope for. With my solid education from them, I will improve with every race. Transition 2
Comments: T2 went well and I had the 2nd fastest T2 time. I had to scoot a bike over to get my bike on the rack but other than that it was smooth. Even paused for a quick second so my wife could snap a thumbs up pic before heading out on the run. What would you do differently?: Just more practice to get a solid routine. Learn the shoes on the bike tricks.  Run
Comments: The run is my weakest area and the place where I can make up some time. I was never a runner for my first 41 years of life and only started running July 1, 2013. The gains are coming and I managed to set a PR for my 5K time. That PR was also after swimming and biking. HA. The course was awesome and went through mostly shaded paths in the park. Dumped water on the head to stay cool and finished the race strong like I had been there before. It wasn't an Ironman but they did call my name and home town as I came down the finishing chute. LOL What would you do differently?: This is easy, just run more and keep shaving time off my pace. First goal is to get to a 10 min per mile race pace. I will get there. Post race
Warm down: Grabbed a water and walked around. Photo's with the wife and talked to some family memebers. What limited your ability to perform faster: Experience. This one I had fun with and still raced it pretty good. I still had gas int he tank which is OK. I wanted to finish and learn how to pace these events. Event comments: First time tri and first time Texasman. They seem to put on a really good race. Last updated: 2014-01-02 12:00 AM
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Age Group = Clyde 40+
Age Group Rank = 5/8
This was my first tri ever and so my prerace routine was a lot of the stuff I learned from the BT group, free siminars, etc... We stayed close to the event to avoid the 2 hour drive. Up at 4am and got the car repacked and had a bagle with peanut butter and honey. Drank about 16 oz. of water with Nuun and headed to the event. I made sure I was there early and it paid off without having to wait in line. Just straight to an open body marker and into transition. i was on the rack closest to the bike in so we had no racks to our back. Made getting in and out real easy. Got the transition all set up, double checked it, grabbed the wetsuit and headed to the beach.
Did some light exercises like squats and arm strokes to get the blood flowing and then went for a short swim to get the cold water shock over with. Water was int he low 70's so it was not that bad.