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Comments: I felt horrible for pretty much the entire swim. I actually had trouble breathing for the first 100m. They put a swimmer in the water approximately every 5 seconds. This amounted to an almost half hour wait before my start. I actually had time to have an engaging chat with the gal in line behind me. Making friends on the pool deck. That's how I roll! Anyhow, I think the longer I stood around waiting to get in the pool the more nervous I got. First 100m tried to catch my breath. 200m I thought to myself, "Triathlon is stupid. Why in the world did I sign up for this. Never doing one of these again!" Then I managed to get my wits back about me and things were a little better for the rest of the swim. What would you do differently?: Breathe! Relax!  Transition 1
Comments: It was a long run from the pool, out of the building, through the parking lot, and finally to where my bike was racked. I had tiny pieces of asphalt stuck to my feet so I spent a little extra time cleaning up before putting on shoes and socks.  Bike
Comments: It really wasn't very warm out today. I decided to go without my jacket and I was pretty chilly for the first part of the ride. I had a good ride - turns out I'm not so slow on the bike when I don't have to stop for stop lights and traffic! I did a little bike shopping on the route, making note of all the cool bikes the speedsters that were passing me were riding. What would you do differently?: I definately need to spend more time in the saddle...and a new bike. Cause new bikes are faster than old bikes! Transition 2
Comments: I don't have clipless pedals. I was riding in my running shoes. So T2 was just getting my bike racked, helmet off, and finding my way back out of the transition area  Run
Comments: Took awhile to get my legs but I was nice and warmed up. I just followed the dude in front of me and chugged along to the finish. Nice downhill at the end of the course so I got a little help from gravity in terms of kicking it into a higher gear for the big finish. Post race
Warm down: Jogged/walked until the heart rate returned to normal then it was straight for the grub! Event comments: The event was well run - tons of volunteers pointing the way and directing traffic. I'll definitely be doing this race again next year! Last updated: 2008-01-17 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 285/450
Age Group = 30-34
Age Group Rank = 10/25
Up at 5:30 for a little breakfast - PB on wheat and a banana, of course. Got to Carmel HS around 7:30. Set up my transition area then waited around for what seemed like FOREVER for the event to actually start.
Quick jog to get the heart pumping and to wake up the brain. Ended up being a fairly useless warmup. It was almost an hour before I actually got to start my swim.