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Comments: After the 24 elites went off with a 2 minute gap, I was the 14th age grouper (you're seeded by projected time) to go off, at 15 second intervals.. By the chip mat out of the pool, I had passed 11 of those 14 people. In a 7 minute swim. People need to learn how to accrately predict their times. Does anyone else do time trials? Sheesh. It's really hard to get into a groove when you're passing people constantly. But what can you do? Next time, I'll seed myself much faster (even though this year's seed was on the money). But...all that being said, I felt decent and was actually a few seconds faster than last year, despite literally swimming 5 times since IMFL. Also, it's hard swimming in 88 degree water. It's like running when it's 100 degrees out. What would you do differently?: Seed myself faster.Train.  Transition 1
Comments: Since it was so cold and windy, I thourh a jacket on out of the water. Otherwise I would have been a bit faster. What would you do differently?: Placed the sun closer to the earth.  Bike
Comments: It was probably a factor of working hard in a very warm, very humid environment and then suddenly working hard in a very cold, very dry environment, but right out of transition I was coughing and coughing and coughing for nearly the entire bike. Also, calf cramp issues right out of the gate, probably related to the tension from the coughing. I'll just say it's really hard riding hard when continuously coughing. That really sucked. What would you do differently?: Traded for some good, phlegm-free lungs. Transition 2
Comments: Simple transition. Took off the helmet, jacket and bike shoes, through on the running shoes, grabbed my race number and I was off. What would you do differently?: Not much.  Run
Comments: Started off horribly. The coughing had stopped by now, but both of my calves were cramping right out of T2. I stopped to stretch and really thought about just bagging it since I was 1. sick, 2. In pain and 3. 3 minutes behind schedule. I actually turned around and took a few steps back towards transition but then quickly squelched that idea. The first half was pretty miserable, but then I started feelingbetter and in the second half I was actually running sub-7 minute pace pretty easily. What would you do differently?: Not have sucked so much. Post race
Warm down: Jogged back into the pool area to watch Amy start. And coughed for about 30 minutes, just for good measure. What limited your ability to perform faster: Sick. Event comments: Again, in retrospect I shouldn't have raced. I'm dissappointed because if I had a good day ( a couple minutes faster than last year) I would have been on the podium. I ended up having good legs, but just couldn't use them because of all of the damn coughing. Oh well. Time to train. Epilogue: this was Amy's first triathlon, and she was awesome. ^th of 16 in Novice female, and ran her fastest-ever 5K. I'm really proud of her. Last updated: 2007-03-23 12:00 AM
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45F / 7C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 101/365
Age Group = M40-44
Age Group Rank = 13/26
Let me start off by saying I've been dreading writing this race report. I was sick with bronchitis and probably shouldn't have raced. I generally felt fine, but was prone to coughing fits that could hit at any time. For about the previous week, I'd gotten very little sleep, since I'd invariably wake up at 1am coughing like crazy, and then not be able to get back to sleep. The net result was my first truly bad race in a dog's age. BUt I'm getting ahead of myself.
Woke up about 6am, loaded the bikes on the car, ate some oatmeal, showered, hopped in the car and drove the 10 minutes to the island. Got there plenty early and set up transition, getting a good spot on my rack.
Went for about a 15 minute run and my legs really, really felt good. It was cold and windy, but it seems like every race I've done the last two years has been cold and windy. So, whatever. After running, took the bike out for 20 minutes, just working through the gears. Came back to transition to find someone had horked my spot (http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=69483&posts=33&start=1).
Swam a couple of hundred meters. It doesn't take long to get your arms warm in 88 degree water.