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Comments: Single start for 92 of us, out through this narrow inlet before making the break for the buoys. Good grief! (remind me not to start so FAR to the back; I'll have fewer people to try to swim over/around) Think I need a dose of antibiotics for all the lake water I swallowed; or maybe I'll just take the GI diet plan (a la "one stomach flu away from my goal weight"! Ha!) Finally got a little more spread coming around the last buoy and could find a rhythm. Learned how to draft, but needed them to go faster (last time in this report I'll say THAT!) What would you do differently?: Not start so far back. Remind myself to relax when I keep getting snootfuls of water trying to breathe.  Transition 1
Comments: I think T1 is included w/ swim time above; they weren't timed separately except exiting/returning w/ bike and at the very end of the race.  Bike
Comments: Course re-routed due to construction; the prior one would've been more challenging. My legs felt filled w/ sand; hamstrings cussing the first several miles (? still tired from ugly hills 2 wks ago, more horseback riding, ???) Water/gatorade bottles essentially still frozen; needed more than I could get. Passed some, passed by a few. This little whippet on a mountain bike (!) passed me. Oh no, no, no, NOOOOO! That JUST ain't right. So I passed him back, and he stayed that way! What would you do differently?: More strength training. Focused so much on my weaknesses this season (swim, run) that bike speed just stagnated. Have a very willing hubby who volunteers to act as my drill instructor...I may really be in trouble. Transition 2
What would you do differently?: nada  Run
Comments: Thank god for GU! Was pushing fairly hard (and asking myself WHY I decided to do another sprint; sprint distance is NOT my thang) but was encouraged to FINALLY break the 10 min/mi wall I've been beating my head against all season. Ran 9:37/9:48/??? (duh, forgot to push stop on the Garmin when I finished---so included is the time I spent BSing w/ others!). Still run like a penguin, but maybe I'm waddling more efficiently! Got a stitch in my R side w/ a little over a mile to go; sucked it up and diverted my attention elsewhere (Oh look! A puppy!) What would you do differently?: Go back to doing oly distance; don't have to spend all my time above LT! Got 3rd of 3 registering as Athena, would've placed 2nd in AG. (calc pace approx 9:34 when T2 taken out) Post race
Warm down: Walked around, grabbed juice and peanut butter crackers, water. Never underestimate how WONDERFUL dry clothes can feel. Checked times, BS'd some more and complimented some fast chicks on their times, etc. I love tris; people are encouraging no matter how fat or slow you are. (as opposed to the horse show I was at yesterday--bunches of hypercritical people who've never done it themselves (they admitted) ragging on those doing it about how they could do it better. Grrrrr!) What limited your ability to perform faster: Uh, that would be: 1) speed (working on it) 2) training (getting as much in as my body and schedule will allow) 3) 25# weight loss to go (plus however much lake water I retained) Event comments: Not the best-marked bike course, and would've loved chip timing (or something more accurate; the time I saw on the clock when I finished wasn't what they have down for me). BUT, this is the first year for this venue and there's presumably always a learning curve. Last updated: 2007-09-06 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 61/92
Age Group = Athena
Age Group Rank = 3/7
Not enough sleep (as usual!), but at least it was in my own bed! Up @ the very uncool hour of 0430 & loaded up for the 2+ hr drive to Vancouver. The usual breakfast of champions: diet Pepsi & PB&J. Got up there quickly and decided to drive bike route; found road closed/active construction on part of the route. Turned around to find cones w/ direction signs had been put up and re-routed the course. Drove the rest of what the map said (only to get to the race and hear they'd COMPLETELY changed-Oh well!)
Scoured my wallet for the $2 park parking fee (huh???) and scored a parking spot, only to load up like a pack mule for the haul to the race start.
Whoa! No body marking, timing chips, etc. (I guess this is a down-home tri...)
Did the wetsuit shimmy and into the water...YIKES that was colder than I anticipated. Swam a couple hundred yards and waddled out to listen to the instructions, w/ my heart pounding unusually fast for some reason. (might have to do w/ sprinting back 'cause they'd started the instructions while I was way out in the water!)