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Comments: Legs were a bit heavy to start after a week of training so I just settled in with the people around me. Turns out it was a fast pace (for me) but I felt good, especially since my HR was only low 170's. Around mile 2 my AT started with a dull pain so I eased off the pace, especially on the hills. What would you do differently?: Not run on a hurt ankle.  Transition 1
Comments: Stopped to use the toilet which added on about 1:30 probably. What would you do differently?: Hold it in.  Bike
Comments: MAybe a little too hard right out of transition. Otherwise just pushed hard and felt pretty good. Didn't feel the AT at all for the whole ride. What would you do differently?: Took in some accelerade almost right away - maybe a little too soon because it upset my stomach for a few minutes. Transition 2
Comments: Went fine, no issues. What would you do differently?: Nothing. Run
Comments: Got about 20ft out of transition and my AT was painful. Stopped & stood around trying to decide whether to quit or not. I wanted to practice runing off the bike though so I decided just to go for 5 minutes. Did a few run-20ft-then-walk before deciding on a plan to walk up the hills (AT felt worse on them) and run on the flats if it didn't hurt. Did this alternating jogging/walking for the 1st mile. 2nd mile the AT started feeling better so I ran at a slow pace. Gradually it started feeling better so I pushed the pace a little more. What would you do differently?: Same as 1st run. Post race
Warm down: Grabbed a water & banana & iced down my ankle. Chatted with Suan a bit - she took 2nd in her AG. What limited your ability to perform faster: One guess. Event comments: Except for starting 20 minutes late it was a good race. I'm really hoping I didn't make a stupid decision by doing this. Overall happy with my 1st run & bike though. New 5k PR without even trying (and I was 8-10 beats below LT) so I'm making progress. Last updated: 2007-04-27 12:00 AM
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80F / 27C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 199/479
Age Group = m30-34
Age Group Rank = 24/39
Woke up and it ws dark out. Had some oatmeal & OJ (no yoghurt before races anymore) & drove down to Cherry Creek.
OK, so the last few days I've been having some achilles tendon problems so whether I did this or not was going to be a game time decision. My ankle felt ok this morning but when I started some light jogging to warm up I felt it right away. I would jog for 50ft then stop, hoping that when I started up again it would be ok but it wasn't. After stretching and jog/walking on it for a while it started to loosen up some but I still was leaning towards not even starting. Finally I decided just to start the race and at the first sign of problems I would shut it down.