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Comments: warned everyone to watch the rocks coming out of the water since I saw many cut feet from that yesterday-so what did I do? You guessed it, cut my foot on a rock. I had such a crummy swim at my last OW race that I was happy to swim this one without hugging the lines/kayaks. YEAH!!! I beat my time from Thursdays practice set! What would you do differently?: I need to get my brain past the need to backstroke in a race, I KNOW I can swim 500m nonstop. More OWS practice would be helpful  Transition 1
Comments: long run (1/4-1/2 mile) up from river to TA)Big hill with gravel didn't help. Tried to keep the dirt out of my foot so I could keep going without a trip to the med tent What would you do differently?: leave flip flops on the edge for the run up to TA?  Bike
Comments: Had a hard time clipping in at the mount line then the water bottle was sliding out since I used a different bottle and the cage is bigger. Started out feeling pretty good, got passed a few times by women from the swim wave behind me so I kicked it up and started passing ladies. Not sure how many in all, I think around 10 at most. I've done some speed work in the neighborhood in the past few weeks and it has helped a lot. Couldn't get the damn flip lid to stay open for me to drink enough, only got one good gulp of water the whole 10 miles! What would you do differently?: remember my usual water bottle and not use the flip lid bottles! Transition 2
Comments: my cut toe made it hard to change shoes-plus I was trying so hard to not lose time in T2 that my heel on the other foot didn't set right in the shoe (yeah, worked up a blister by the halfway point of the run-more on that later) Took part of a gel and water on the way through the run start What would you do differently?: make sure the feet set right in the shoes so I'm not hurting on the run  Run
Comments: Kids ran in with me the last 100 yards-one on each hand. John's picture cut Rachel out, hope the race pic looks better Their running in with me made the race a lot more fun What would you do differently?: need to pick up my pace, I'm sure, Shouldn't buy shoes and run only twice in them before a race-especially since I'd not done sockless in these to see how they'd feel. Post race
Warm down: walked around, checked in with my new BT buddies. Took care of the feet. Had some water and gatorade with a cup of chex mix and wedge of banana/orange What limited your ability to perform faster: the cut on my left foot and the blister I created on the right foot hampered me a bit on my run. not enough brick sessions Event comments: my best race this season-most relaxed about it and had the most fun at this one. I wish John could enjoy these events as a spectator and post race party-he always just wants to take off. It was a long ride home in my sweaty/wet bathing suit and bike shorts Profile Album Last updated: 2007-08-30 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 145/250
Age Group = 40-49
Age Group Rank = 15/25
I actually slept pre race last night! Got up around 0500 had a muffin with coffee while I let John and the girls sleep in. Hit McDonalds for breakfast (sausage-egg biscuit only I tossed the biscuit) Got to the site pretty early so I had plenty of time to set up my transition area, get marked up, pick up the timing chip. Said hi to the gang I worked with yesterday in the med tent
Didn't do much to warm up, some stretching, jogged down to the swim start area Met a bunch of fellow BT'ers pre swim (jusTry'n was hanging out as this was a ladies race, sk2a2005 raced with me and showed me the whole dolphin dive thing)