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Comments: Craig (cpjohnson) was our swimmer. He put 5min all other male teams and was 2nd of any relay teams. He smoked it!  Transition 1
Comments: Craig through the chip to me and I strapped it on, grabbed my bike (thanks to Laura (gymnutt03) for holding it for me) and sprinted out of T1.  Bike
Comments: I didn't really have a specific target for speed..but I planned out my effort as follows. Target HR of 145 for first 30min and increase target by 5 beats each half hour. This had me in mid z3 to start and finishing the last hour in z4. It took me a solid 10min to get my HR down due to the adrenaline and sprint out of T1 raising my HR. I played leap frog with some gal for the first 10+ miles befor dropping her. She either was a very good cyclist or crazy for trying to keep up with a relay cyclist...not sure which, but it was nice to have a pacer. Somewhere around mile 12 I get passed easily by the one relay cyclist who I thought would be good....he had aero covers over his shoes and a Soloist hooked up with an SRM. I react and follow for about 30-60s but my HR quickly jumped to 160+ and I knew it would be very dangerous to try this so early. I let him go and just hoped he was going out too strong. (He didn't and I later find out he had the 2nd fasest bike split of the day...and that he is the national mtn bike champion of Bermuda.) I stuck to my plan. The second 30min was very fast as we had a slight tailwind. Most of the second hour was a slight headwind. Outside of a couple turns, I only saw my speed drop below 20 once. The last 45min - 1hr really required me to focus to keep the effort up, but it was a lot of fun. The longest sustained tempo intervals I have done were 30min...to do 2:30 was a fun challenge. I think efforts like this will pay dividends in the long run. Kept cadence high throughout...avg'd 100, max 119 and only mashed the last 30min where the cadence was around 88-94. Max speed 27.1mph. Amazing that the winner avg'd 27+. What would you do differently?: Use more bodyglide as my shorts caused a nice chaffing mark. Transition 2
Comments: Sprinted down to Brad. Stuck out my leg so he could take the chip. I was spent.  Run
Comments: Brad (weds19) was our runner. He's a stud and set a PR at this distance and beat the run time of the relay team that won. Their runner was the Oly triathlon champion of Bermuda. Post race
Warm down: Pounded some gatorade and water. Waited for Laura to finish her ride and then went on a short run with her. What limited your ability to perform faster: A tough hilly 1/2IM the wknd before. Event comments: One of my favorite races. It attracts both top pros and top amateurs and the community and volunteers are great. I just wish Vigo would figure out how to run an award ceremony! GOOD: - great venue - plenty of volunteers - great field of competitors.. a true measuring stick - free post-race massage - plenty of port-o-potties at venue and on course OK: - Food BAD: - Vigo's ability to run an award ceremony..took 90min+...WTF?!?!? - Traffic leaving...2000+ athletes plus shore traffic..ugh! Last updated: 2007-01-30 12:00 AM
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Columbia Triathlon Association
Overall Rank = 105/
Age Group = Relay-Male
Age Group Rank = 2/5
Since we all are doing IM CDA in two weeks, we thought we'd do the EM relay so we could still participate in a fun/big race....and of course hopefully bring home some wonderful eagle hardware.
Woke up really early so we could beat the traffic and park close to TA. Up at 4 and at venue by 5. Ate breakfast as the sun came up. Set up TA and watched/cheered the pros and AGers as we were in the last wave (8:13am), a full 90min after the first wave.
They wouldn't let us take trainers into TA nor could we pull out our bikes so I WU'd using Brad's bike. I'm sure if I had warmed up on my bike I would have gone 4mph faster...haha.