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Comments: What can I say? This was my 1st tri and I survived the swim! I told myself that If/when I do this again I WILL get a wet suit! What would you do differently?: I really felt good about the swim. No major failures. (But I wish I was faster!) :-p  Transition 1
Comments: The run out of the water to the transition area was probably 250 to 300 yards. I could not wait to get my googles off and my regular glasses on but I was fortunate that the goggles stayed fog-free throughout the swim and the run up to the bike. I ate one shot block and chugged a little water while doing this. I was way more tired than I expected to be while getting on my bike stuff. Not having a wetsuit make this pretty easy. Getting out and up to the road was also pretty quick 'n easy. I crossed the line and clipped in as well as I could have hoped for... What would you do differently?: I probably could have pushed it a little harder running up to the transition area, but like I said I was more tired than I had expected to be...  Bike
Comments: I think lowering my seat a little bit helped me prevent calf cramps. I am also glad I ate one shot block in transition before the bike and then one more just before the 1/2 way point. I also heeded the advice of our coach to NOT drink or eat anything in the last 10 minutes of the ride. I really wanted to drink here but knew that it would just be sloshing around in my belly during the run! What would you do differently?: Again, no major failures. While I had biked this course twice before, I had never done it AFTER a swim. This really made it much harder. I had to push and ride smart to avoid calf issues. Transition 2
Comments: No issues. Just more tired than I was expecting!  Run
Comments: It sucked. I really had hoped to be around 26 minutes but it simply was not in the cards for me. I was really, really tired. There's a hill just over 1/2 mile into the run. The elevation gain is about 100 feet in about 3/10 of mile. I had to downshift my run quite a bit but did not walk it at all. It was flat on top of this hill and since it was an out and back so I did get to go down the hill again. It was a "please get me through this Lord" type of run. By this time the temperature was somewhere in the low 80s. I did get something at each waterstation but I mostly dumped the water over my head. I only took a few sips. As run came back to park where it started we had a steep downhill going toward the lake with a 90-degree turn down the finishing lane. It was at this point I saw the time 2 hours 6 minutes... I was crushed... and stupid. I had forgotten my wave stared 30 minutes AFTER the clock started! DUHHH! What would you do differently?: Maybe I should have taken one more shot block somewhere during the event. Post race
Warm down: Water and walk around. They had some great food there for the competitors but I really could not eat. Stomach said NO! What limited your ability to perform faster: The typical run was 5 miles. I never did any longer runs. This was a mistake. I should have included runs in 8-10 mile range. Event comments: It was fantastic to have my wife, daughter #2 and the Fleet Feet Syracuse Coaches there to cheer me on! Overall this was harder than I expected it to be. But I finished AND I got a 3rd place in my age group and 37th out of 130 overall in this sprint distance. I really don't think I could have asked for more for my 1st triathlon! As I spoke with other people it really did seem like this is a well-respected race and draws a fairly competitive field. To place in this was a really, really good feeling! Last updated: 2014-06-26 12:00 AM
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60F / 16C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 37/130
Age Group = M 40-44
Age Group Rank = 3/7
Woke up at 5:30 to get ready. Had a normal breakfast of coffee, banana and combination of grapenuts cereal and homemade granola. Decided to take a little more time at home because this race is pretty close ~20 miles away. I had my bike and the rest of things packed the night before.
When we (my wife, daughter #2 and me) arrived the close parking was taken so we had to park at a near-by highschool and walk in. There we're lots of volunteers so getting marked-up and my chip was quick. The transition area was getting full and i found most of the open rack spots were too low to get my bike into. They had pushed the rack lets too far into the ground. Good thing I'm short and have a small bike!
I realized during set up that I had left my garmin watch at home. (Looking back on this I'm glad I did not have it during the run!)
Transition closed around 7:45 and I realized I did not know what to do with my glasses! I *should* have brought my prescription sunglasses but they were in the car. So I decided to leave my regular glasses in transition and walk around blind for the next 45 minutes or so. Fortunately I DO have prescription swim goggles so I periodically put them on to look around! (Yeah, I felt like a dork but oh well!)
My warm up was pretty minimal. I have always had calf-cramp "issues" so I spent most of my time needing my calfs and massaging my thighs.
It really was a spectacular morning in central New York! The wind was perfectly calm, temperatures were worming up and the humidity was low. Absolutely ideal!