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Comments: Swim was fairly uneventful except that I was terribly slow. This is a new low point for me as far as 1/2 IM swims go. A personal worst by 2 minutes. What would you do differently?: Get to the pool more, a LOT more.  Transition 1
Comments: Smooth T1.  Bike
Comments: The first 25 miles of the bike felt great. My legs felt as though I hadn't done a thing the day before. I was averaging about 21 mph and was holding back. At about 30 miles was where we started to encounter hills. I simply had nothing in the tank to handle uphills. All I could do was spin and try to not lose too much time. The ride back to Chisago City from the valley was into a slight headwind and I was able to pick my average back up some on the way back. This course had the worst quality in roads of any race I have ever done. They were horrible and made the ride unfomfortable for a good share of the time. What would you do differently?: Nothing. Tactically I probably rode the 56 as smart as possible. Transition 2
Comments: I have refined my T2 to pull a few more seconds off and now I think I've gotten to the point where the only way to improve here is to simply run faster through transition. What would you do differently?: Nothing.  Run
Comments: Here was the nicest surprise of the day, my legs felt great off the bike. I was very worried that by the time I started running that the previous day's activities would catch up to me....not the case! I started by trying to run 8:30-9:00 miles and was somewhere in the low end of that range for the first two. After that I was able to stay at or slightly below 8:30s until mile 8 where I decided to simply pick it up because I was feeling great still. I'm not sure exactly how fast I was running from mile 8 on, but most of teh miles had to be sub 8s because I ended up averaging 8:14. This was a huge boost to my confidence moving forward to IMWI. I have gotten much better at staying fresh off the bike and having good runs at this distance and I hope I can keep it up. It was great to see my wife and 3 of my kids (baby stayed with Grandma) at the finish. I love the fact that they enjoy watching me race, even though they don't get to see me race often. What would you do differently?: Not a thing. Post race
Warm down: After the race I grabbed some meatballs and pancakes (strange combo, I know) and then we headed out rather quickly because it was past lunch time and everyone was hungry. What limited your ability to perform faster: Lack of swim training & lack of a taper. Event comments: The organization was ok, could be better. Last updated: 2007-05-30 12:00 AM
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79F / 26C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 71/223
Age Group = M35-39
Age Group Rank = 15/35
Several weeks ago I realized that a solid training weekend was going to be far more important than a decent 1/2 IM so I decided to make it an ironman weekend. I swam 1.2 on Friday, then on Saturday morning ran a local race (11 miler with a 2.1 mile warmup) then jumped on the bike and rode 56. I knew I wouldn't be fresh for this race, but it would make for a great weekend of training.
Surprisingly when I woke up on Sunday I felt great. Got to the race site at 5:30 and set things up.
No warmup for me, that's what the swim is for in a 1/2.