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Comments: "I'm Sweating While Swimming"...also "Push The Start Button, Dummy" After last year's smacking the bottom during the jump in I was a little paranoid so I kinda eased into the water as best I could, and in the process forgot to start my watch. A really solid swim, though I think I swam in some squiggly lines as my sighting was a bit off. Current was tough, kinda came across the course and the final 150 yards was against it so that sucked. Choppier than last year, but you could at least see your hands in the water and it didn't smell like last year. No green goo on the shore either, so that was a bonus. Course is definitely long or at least performs long...no way 19:30 should get me in the top 3rd on an accurate course. 8 seconds faster than last year, which could mean just about anything. 4/9 AG 45/101 Male 64/177 OA What would you do differently?: Swim straight...other than that a good overall swim. I probably should seed myself a little farther up so I get less traffic in front of me on the bike.  Transition 1
Comments: "Middling But At Least No Picnic" Took forever it seemed to drag myself up the swim ladder and flop onto the dock. Jogged up the stairs and ran at a pretty good clip into transition. Paced myself...actually got my shoes on properly. Remembered to drink some Gatorade. Ran to the bike mount. Not great time but fine for me: 6/9 AG 78/177 OA  Bike
Comments: "Let's See If We Can Blow Up on the Run Later" The Plan as mentioned above was to absolutely hammer this ride in zone 4 and use the last 1/2 mile to get my HR down and ready for the run. Starting off I couldn't get my Garmin Edge to work right...it was adding onto another ride from last week - ugh. Eventually I just hit the lap button to be able to segment it out later. I'm a technology mess today. I started pretty hard on the park drive, then pushed overall the railroad bridge (I've already passed like five people). Made the turn onto Philadelphia Road and OMG the road surface is a mess. I feel like I'm riding on cobbles. Not much else to say...I hammered the ride. Pushed the uphills and this year pedaled down as well. A bit terrifying on those bumpy roads at 32 mph. Got caught up in some traffic getting toward the bike finish line, but that allowed me to calm down a bit heading into T2. Sixteen seconds faster than last year, at a cost of a decent amount of extra effort. Average Power: 208 Nominal Power: 238 IF: 0.87 (though my FTP probably isn't really 275 at this point) VI: 1.14 (better than last year, probably because I didn't coast the downhills as much this year) What would you do differently?: Nothing much. My turnaround was a little slow but I don't think I'm leaving much out there. Normally you dry off on the bike, not so much today. I'm drenched at this point. Transition 2
Comments: "The Picnic Blanket is Back!!" Way better than last year...actually remembered my race belt. Drank a decent amount of Gatorade too...debated carrying it but decided to just do the water on the course. Still a really poor result. Last in my AG LOL. 9/9 AG 116/171 OA Blech What would you do differently?: Hurry the hell up.  Run
Comments: "The Redline Experiment is Over in a Blaze of Fire" Coming out of transition I see my daughter who says "You're basically winning!!" LOL At this point I'm in 4th in my AG, and that erodes a bit over the next thirty minutes. First half mile goes fine, holding sub-9 pace, then the wheels fly off. Run/walk the next 25 minutes or so. I've never seen so many people walking in a race. My HR is nuts and there's no breeze to dry off the sweat. I ran with some lady to pass the time, leap-frogging each other as we alternated our run/walking. Kicked a bit to the finish but I was totally checked out by then. Ghastly run result, but at least I broke 30 minutes LOL: 6/9 AG 90/177 OA What would you do differently?: I probably overcooked the bike a little too much, but I'm not sure I could have mustered anything much better in that heat. Not my worst performance but certainly not up to my capability. Post race
Warm down: "I'm Wetter Than The Swim" Did the usual double-over, scare the med people for a second. No volunteer help today on the timing chip so had to bend over and get thing off. Wet towel actually dried me off I think. I'm literally soaked like I ran in the rain. Meandered over to the pavilion where I fed my daughter with the post-race food. Some sherpa. Started to get cold so went back over to transition and grabbed my beach towel and wore that for a bit. Eventually got ourselves together, biked back to the car, and drove home. Really out of it the rest of the day, slept well and was just a little sore then next day. Well the experiment proved that you can race really hard for approximately an hour, then you're fried. What limited your ability to perform faster: I'm not cut out of hot weather racing anymore, and this course is brutal. Didn't help that I mentally checked out probably before the race even started. Good practice race, anyway. Event comments: Kinetic always runs a good race...only a 4 because the road conditions are horrible. Last updated: 2025-03-25 12:00 AM
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Kinetic Multisport
85F / 29C
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Overall Rank = 62/177
Age Group = M 55-59
Age Group Rank = 5/9
"How Long Can You Redline It In A Race?"
Second straight year participating in this race...good season so far with a ton of running (for me at this point, anyway). Bike build in Jan/Feb, run build Mar-May, a little downtime then the first four weeks of an Oly plan. This is a B race, but I did taper properly for it. Leading up to the race my back was giving me hell and I rolled my foot earlier in the week, but more or less fine toeing the line by Saturday morning.
Slept like crap the night before so not really snappy for the race. The Plan was to just hammer as long as I can and see if I can hang on during the run. The weather is disgusting again...85 and like drizzling humid. Water temp is also 85 degrees but at least it's not gross this year.
"It Is SO Gross Out"
Our weather this week has been stormy and hot, so it's ungodly humid out like drink the air humid. I wake up at 4:15 or so (well, really I woke up around 2:30 but whatever). Ate a couple of pieces of toast and an apple, slammed some coffee, got showered and out the door. Stomach isn't feeling great, I'm tired, this should be a spectacular race. :-/
Got to the race location and biked in again. I'd been having issues with my valve extender on my rear race wheel, like I can't get the pump nozzle to engage. Well, the bike peeps fixed me up so all good.
Fit check: :-)
Desoto sleeveless trisuit
Ridley Fenix roadie with clip-ons, Flo 64/90 wheels
Garmin Edge and Forerunner 265 (which wound up being fairly useless, see later)
Botrager el-cheapo bike shoes with velcro straps so this two year old can get his shoes on quickly); forgot my inserts so they were a little loose
Going with no nutrition on the bike, just gotta make sure to drink in both transitions.
Warmed up by jogging about a half mile and a ton of stretching. Dock swim so lined up pretty early and watched the Olympic swimmers finish...my daughter's friend John was like 7th OA on the swim. I'm already sopping wet and I haven't even started yet. This should be fun.