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Comments: So much for my strategy of keeping my HR in the 150's... Instead of doing consistent 10-11 min miles, my first mile was 8:38. My HR went to ~170 quickly and pretty much stayed there. I intentionally tried to slow myself down. I felt great but knew that running with that high of a HR meant that I would have trouble keeping pace later on. Even with my HR mismanagement, I was able to do a 10:51 pace which was within my expectations for the day. But I did that at the expense of HR avg. I didn't carry any liquid on the runs. Took a small cup of water at mile 2. What would you do differently?: Train more for the run! I started training in the beginning of April and ran ~3 days per week. I should have started running back in Feb.  Transition 1
Comments: I put my shoes on before I mount the bike. I don't have tri bike shoes nor am I so competitive that I am concerned about saving seconds in transition by leaving shoes on the pedals and putting them on my while riding. My run has to get much better before I worry about this shoe stuff. :) What would you do differently?: Not much. It went pretty well. I took a couple of swings of Accelerade while changing shoes. I wiped my face and head before putting on my helmet and I took over my long sleeve T-shirt as I was walking in the transition area to my bike.  Bike
Comments: The bike segment was a blur and a total blast. I love my new tri bike! I drank a 16oz bottle of water during the ride and also had once Gu gel when I was in traffic and unable to pass. What would you do differently?: train more and get my average speed up over 20 from 17.9. Transition 2
Comments: I don't take my feet out and run in my socks. I stopped to get off the bike right at the double line entering transition. A T<2min is good enough for me. Run
Comments: Was able to maintain my HR better though it was still way to high. Took a small cup of water at mile 1 and 2. didn't carry waer otherwise. What would you do differently?: just need to train more. the course was fine. Post race
Warm down: Walked around. Got hugs and kisses my my wife and kids! Ate a slice of pizza, watermelon and half a banana. drank some gaterade and hung around for a good 30-40 minutes. stretch a bit, etc. What limited your ability to perform faster: run conditioning and general total newbie-ness of running. Last year I biked over 2,000 miles and ran less than 50... Event comments: Great weather. Really nice venue and course layout. Well organized. Nice group of people (athletes and volunteers)! Last updated: 2007-04-10 12:00 AM
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60F / 16C
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Overall Rank = 196/214
Age Group = 40-44
Age Group Rank = 21/22
Packed bike and transition bag the night before. Race started at 9am. Willow Metropark is about 50 min from home... Breakfast was one cup of Honey Cheerios at 6:45am while I mixed two bottles of Accelerade and filled a water bottle for the bike segment. Ate 1/2 of a Choc. Chip CliffBar in the car on the way to the race and drank about 6 ounces of Accelerade. Once there, I signed in for my number and pumped up my tires and then racked my bike, got body numbering, etc.
Stretched, walked around and light jogging (~5-8 min). Finished the second half of the 12oz Accelerade bottle (2nd bottle was for transition area - quick swigs during T1 & T2). Tried to stay warm as it was pretty cool in the morning (mid 50's). I did the first run with a long sleeve T-shirt on top of my cycling shirt. Looked around for other BT'ers... was found by Leah just before the start.