Swim
Comments: lots of kicking, pulling at legs, and people running into me, seemed like a bunch of newbees trying to win the gold in the first 200meters What would you do differently?: start in the front or the back, and not the middle, it was more of a fight for the first 250meters then actually swimming Transition 1
Comments: ate a gel in transition missed the clip on firs try, had to stop and regroup Bike
Comments: Hot+Hills ... defenitely more than other Iowa races I have done so far. I did not feel good on the bike at all. I also had to pee the whole ride, which made holding the aero position a bit difficult. Drank ~40oz of water with Nuun tabs What would you do differently?: wait to drink the second 20oz of water to just before the swim start, not an hour before. Transition 2
Comments: decided not to wear socks this race for the bike or run, when I put me running shoes on the inner lining kept on bunching up, had to take off shoes 2 times before I got it right What would you do differently?: wear socks for the run Run
Comments: did I mention it was hot? What would you do differently?: could not do much differently here, I think I was hydrated enought prior to the run, and expected water every 1 mile, there was only water at the start and at 1.5mile. Would bring somoething with me next time. Post race
Warm down: drank water and poured it a buch of it on myself to cool off. walked around What limited your ability to perform faster: heat, hills, the the fact that I did not taper at all this week (put in about 7hrs of training prior to this race) Event comments: the 9am start was way too late for this weather. I got to finally meet Noz (Adam)and his wife Rachel (also a triathlete) and watch him receive his first place hardware. Congratualtions! Last updated: 2007-06-05 12:00 AM
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United States
90F / 32C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 296/356
Age Group = 30-34
Age Group Rank = 42/42
woke up and ate Powerbar 1, and drank 20oz water
then drank another 20oz water about 1hr before swim start.
stretched out, swam ~200y, ate a gel just before swim start