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Comments: I was actually pretty pleased with this swim. I started off a little quicker than normal to try and get some free space. There was a little banging but not too much. As I expected, I had to slow a little as I was tired from the start. For the most part I swam pretty straight the whole time. My biggest mistake was when I turned around the last buoy before heading in, I turned a little too much. With the sun in my eyes, I couldn't see any buoys but I was heading in thw right direction and there were a few other swimmers with me so I thought I was fine. However, cranberry has their buoys pretty close together so when I couldn't see one, I started getting concerned. I looked over to me right and there was the damn buoy. I was pretty much parallel to it so I had to make a 90 degree turn, get to the buoy and get back on track. After that, I actually felt pretty good. For one of the rare moments, I got into a good rythm and actually passed people coming in. What would you do differently?: Considering the course was longer than last year and I went off course, I still had pretty much the same time as previous year...which means I swam a lot faster ![]() Transition 1
Comments: Once I got out of the water, I immediately felt naseous. I could barely run so I just had to trot into T. After I grabbed my bike, I had to walk all the way to the mount line to keep from hurling. What would you do differently?: Enter a duathlon ![]() Bike
Comments: For the first several miles, I had to go slow to get my stomach settled down. At mile 5, I felt I could finally start picking up the pace and really started moving through the field. Though I wanted to go hard on the bike, I decided to back off a little because of the heat. In end, I had a really good ride. No one passed me the entire ride and was just able to stay smooth and keep the pressure on. I was really hoping to catch Baity but I figured that was not realistic as imagined he had a huge swim advantage and would also push it on the bike. My biggest problem was that I could not stomach my gatorade. I had three GU's and a decent amount of water but I was really banking on the gatorade and that would not go down at all. What would you do differently?: Nothing ![]() Transition 2
Comments: Good transition ![]() Run
Comments: When I left T2, I thought I was going to have a great run. I flew the first mile and it felt effortless. I thought I would have no problem keeping this up for 6 miles. The like a ton of bricks, my body just shut down and both legs cramped...okay , survival mode once again. I backed off the pace and started walking the aid stations. I saw Chris at either mile 2 or 3...he offfered me some endurlytes (Thanks Chris) but as I have never tried them, I thought it would be a bad idea. The rest of the run was just filled with ups and downs. I would feel good at some points and just miserable later on. By the last half mile, both quads completely locked up and it took everything just to keep running. ![]() Post race
Event comments: As always, this is a well done race and it is great that we get such a large BT gathering. Last updated: 2007-08-28 12:00 AM
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Sun Multisport Events
Overall Rank = 134/
Age Group = 30-34
Age Group Rank = 15/31
Drove up from CT in the morning
Stood with my wetsuit on sweating to death