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Comments: This was my first OWS of the year (no practices even), so I took some extra time and swam part of the course, then did some drills to help relax. It helped because during the race I felt no anxiety. Now, this was supossed to be 400yards, but with my fantastic navigational skills I'm sure it was more like 450, maybe even 500 . I was sighting, but every time I sighted, I overcorrected myself. It became a tale of - oh, I need to go to the left slightly - crap - need to go back right - and back and forth I zig-zagged. At the end, I almost got stepped on by another racer. I was swimming in as close to shore as I could get (ie, standing up when my hands touch the bottom). My swim coach from last year told me it was faster, and it seems to be for me. Well, the othe guy didn't seem to agree, and I almost got stepped on (felt his foot brushing against me as he was stepping down.)  Transition 1
Comments: T1 - there was quite a run from the beach to the bikes, and with my tender footsies and rocks, it took me a while. My time was 3:50. I was fairly efficient at the transition, but wore socks and used my camelbak for this race, which adds some time.  Bike
Comments: All I can say is that this course was HILLY!! No huge 3mile climbs, but alot in the 1/4 - 1/2 mile range, with less than 1mile of flat over the whole thing. You come out of transition and go down the first hill then have to make a 90 degree right hand turn onto the main road, or you end up in the golf course. Haven't heard if anyone did that this year, but usually a couple of people end up there every year . It took me a couple of rollers to find my climbing legs, but once I did, my climbing went great. Throughout most of the bike leg, it became a story of me passing a number of people going up hill, then most of those come flying by me on the down hill - repeat at next hill. I've gotten much better at descending, and on this course, you could fly down the hills without having to break because the road curves in such a nice manner. But even with me using my momentum over the top, pedaling until I max out my gears, and getting into the best tuck I can do, I still get passed. I know I'm relatively small, but I'm not exactly built like a climber. I mean, I'm only 5'2" and 123lbs, but I have the butt and thighs of a sprinter, not a climber - they just don't work the way they look. The only interesting thing on the bike was going up one of the hills - I needed to scoot over about a foot to pass two guys, and the people coming up behind didn't call out. Of course, as I was starting to move over, one of the guys I was going to pass decided he couldn't go up the hill straight and started weaving. As I started to make a more extreem move, I spotted the other guys out of the corner of my eye and had to almost stop on the hill to avoid them. Well, I was still in my middle ring at this point and had been planning on going into the granny to spin up it. But since I was in the middle and almost stopped, I just stood up and went to power it by those two. Well, this worked better than expected and I just kept climbing standing up and ended up passing those two, plus the other guys that had come up behind me. Of course, the best part was how fast I went by these macho guys on their fance tri bikes What would you do differently?: Push more on the flats, be more careful at the turn-arounds - had problems at each Transition 2
Comments: efficient - in and out quickly What would you do differently?: make sure running shoes are on the right side of the bike - had to duck under and grab them  Run
Comments: Once again, multiple hills on this one, just not as steep. It was getting hot by now but luckily most of the run was in the shade and plenty of water stations to douse myself with water at. The time wasn't great, but I did accomplish one thing that I was wanting too - I ran the entire 5k without walking. Now when I'm training, I can run 8miles at a faster pace without walking, but for some reason, I have a mental block at tris where I always end up walking part of the run, even if I didn't need too. Hopefully this will help me get through it What would you do differently?: not much - do a few more bricks before hand, work on pushing myself harder Post race
What limited your ability to perform faster: lack of training over the past month Event comments: always a great race, what you would expect from Team Magic Last updated: 2007-04-30 12:00 AM
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Getting ready, I must have looked comical/pitiful pumping up my tires (hate my pump - for my road bike I have to almost sit on the stupid thing and jump up and down on it to get it to work - no problem with the MTB, though), because some guy came over and did my back tire for me (sweet of him). At the transition area entrance, there are people there making sure only racers go in. To help with this, we are given arm bands to wear. Well, I was carrying all my crap up there, and for some reason the lady decided that the wrist band wasn't enough (it was on the other side of the transition area and at other races) - she had to see our actual race number. Well, of course that is buried inside my bag, and there was no place to prop up my bike so I was trying to coordinate myself (on a sloaped road), to dig it out. My bike started to fall, and I had no hands, so used my right foot to catch it out of instinct - mistake - I cought it on the big chain ring, and ended up with multiple curs on my foot and ankle with grease inside of it (I was in flip flops at the time). Tried to clean it out, but the chain grease seems to be embedded (sp?). Nice and sore, but still functional.
Swam - about 300yards, some drills to relax.