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Comments: For those that remember this race from last year I joked about staring straight into the face of the girl I was sharing the lane with for 15 laps. Well it happened again only this time it was a guy in his 50's and he didn't swim as fast as she did. So it kind of threw me off a bit as I seemed to just fall into a rhythm. While it wasnt a great swim it wasn't bad either. It felt pretty relaxed and was only about 25 seconds slower than last year. Correction - I just looked at my race from last year and I was 1 second faster this year. What would you do differently?: Swim faster.  Transition 1
Comments: Transition wasn't too bad, other than the fact that getting clipped into the pedals took a few tries and most likely cost me a few seconds. What would you do differently?: Flying mount.  Bike
Comments: Pretty good bike. I went out pretty hard, caught a few people and kept up a good pace. I could feel a few times that my legs couldn't put out the power that I wanted. I guessing this is due to having put in about 8 hours of training in the 3 days before the race. Overall I'm pretty happy with the bike. What would you do differently?: Nothing Transition 2
Comments: Transition went pretty smooth. About as quick as I could have been. What would you do differently?: Nothing  Run
Comments: Not too bad of a run but I could feel my legs were pretty heavy. I had two guys pass me about 2k into the run, and they were moving pretty quick so I didn't even try to keep up with them. At the half way point I could see that I had a pretty good lead (1.5min or so) on the guy behind me so I didn't push the rest of the run crazy hard and settled into a strong pace that I could manage. What would you do differently?: Nothing Post race
Warm down: Walked around and had a water bottle. What limited your ability to perform faster: Legs were pretty tired from quite a bit of hard training lately. I could definitely feel it at different points Event comments: This is great race and I'm sure I will be back to do it again next year. Last updated: 2014-05-26 12:00 AM
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Canada
Navy Tridents Triathlon Club
16C / 61F
Sunny
Overall Rank = 10/180
Age Group = M30-39
Age Group Rank = 4/24
I drove 3 hours while drinking copious amounts of water and stopping every hour or so to relieve myself. I could have cut back on the water, lol. I had about an hour before my heat started so I set up transition, made sure everything was good to go and chatted with a few people.
I did a little light stretching and then we were told that we would have a quick swim warm up as the heat before us finished early. Out start time was 2:50pm and we were the last heat of the day, We got in the water at about 2:45 and I did one lap of the pool. No sooner than i touched the wall then I was hearing on you marks go. Either that was one slow lap, the shortest warmup time ever or we started early. I wasn;t the most mentally ready when the gun went off.