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Comments: Given I've never done a beach run start before, and am always afraid of cold water (bad experience with hyperventilation not long ago), I ran fairly slowly to the beach and ran into the waves slowly before started swimming. I was probably #100 of some #150 by the time I started actually swimming! The swim itself was fine. I kept my stroke long and slow. I stayed on the far left of the group most of the time. I mainly breath on my left and thought it bizaare to see no swimmers and no land -- almost like swimming alone. I probably wandered a bit too far to the left and swam some extra yards. I stopped very briefly a couple of times to sight. My shoulders felt a bit tired toward the end, but not too bad. What would you do differently?: Work on sighting. Transition 2
Comments: No timing chips. Someone was manually checking times on the run from the beach to T1, so the swim time includes some T1 as does the run. I had some trouble getting my wetsuit off so I lost a few extra seconds. What would you do differently?: Practice wetsuit removal! Run
Comments: Not much to it. I got passed by plenty of faster runners (I'm slow!), and also passed a few. What would you do differently?: I should have tried to run faster, but hey, I was on vacation! Post race
Warm down: Walked around and ate and drank. We didn't stick around for the post-race festivities (had to get back to the hotel and get family to the airport), but I heard I missed some great giveaways. What limited your ability to perform faster: Not much recent swim yardage. I finished 4th in my AG, just 6 seconds from #3 and 36 seconds from #2. I could easily have made up those 36 seconds by being more aggressive at the swim start, by not messing up my transition, and by running a bit faster! (The #1 finisher in my AG was just plain faster, but only by about 90 seconds...) Event comments: Very informal, but I thought it was pretty cool. I had a great time! Timing chips would have been nice. Nice people, nice atmosphere! Last updated: 2007-06-11 12:00 AM
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Playa del Run
Overall Rank = 67/148
Age Group = M 45-49
Age Group Rank = 4/10
I did the race on a bit of a whim. I'd been traveling for work so much in May that I brought the family from Texas to LA for the weekend for work/vacation getaway. I saw this race and I didn't need a bike, so I signed up on race day morning!
I hadn't swum much all month due to travel, so this was a nice training session / race for me. Also, I'd never done a real ocean swim with cold water and waves and all, so I figured this would be a good experience.
I really wasn't planning on writing a race report (this was really more for the training and experience than to compete well in the race), but since a fellow BTer made the effort of entering the race info, why not?
Warmed up about 10 min in the water. Wanted to get used to cold water and waves. I don't think I've ever swum in water this fricking cold! I even thought about a DNS during the first minute of warmup (no need to freeze to death while on vacation!), but then it started feeling warmer further away from shore (is that normal)?