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Comments: After the "Jive", jumping dive, suffered small bout of dimensia from the 3 foot hydro face plant, found myself and immediately flailed away at the water for 10 minutes. It was horrible with bodies everywhere, eventually found myself stumbling towards a bright light with some sort of ramp, then bam hello cold wind! What would you do differently?: Put a more accurate swim time of 8:29 down so as not to be placed in the rear of the herd.  Transition 1
Comments: Attempted the flying "V" mount and ended up looking like Annie Oakley / Will Rogers during one of those horse trick riding shows from days of yore. Voice went up 3 octaves the rest of the day from that effort. Next time I will practice this mounting style before the event, I just happened to see it in a magazine and figured, crap I can do that stuff... What would you do differently?: Train on mounting the bike and sticking it the first time, this was embarrassing in front of about 200 people, mostly women and children, with lots of oohs and ahs coming from the peanut gallery after 4 futile Flying "V" attempts followed by a roaring thunderous cheer after I carefully threw my leg over the saddle and rode off into the sunrise  Bike
Comments: Nice track and well marshalled, the folks at CORE did an excellent job, seriously! What would you do differently?: Train harder using gail force Hurricane level 4 winds as an aide. Not whine so much when my thighs start to flirt with spontaneous combustion conditions. It's all supposed to be fun dangit! Transition 2
Comments: Didn't jump off bike, I actually fell and fell hard I did. If there weren't about 300 people watching, mostly finished athletes, the real ones, and pretty ladies I would have cried. But I pulled it off like it was a learned dismount that I had trained on and trained hard for, I nailed it they thought. What would you do differently?: Practice dismounts in front of large audiences of great athletes, pretty ladies, have an elevated heart beat, face and helmet splayed with dried blue beverage, $4.00 worth of red sports gu splattered all over the front of my body with none in the mouth all the while having Euro-techno pop music being played at 200db. All of the above should help me in the search for better transition times after the bike.  Run
Comments: Good run, the music really though my cadence off, I would rather run to Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor that have that Euro jazz being forced on me. The music selection really jacked my cadence all up What would you do differently?: Practice running in heavy winds with ABBA craked up on the IPOD. I must be stronger and not let outside things such as weird music influence me in a negative fashion while performing strenuous activities. I will repeat this mantra while training... Post race
Warm down: Free Beer and Pizza. More stretching and popping of neck, the side to side stuff you know. Huge smiles and locker room assesments of the race sprinkled with salty language. What limited your ability to perform faster: I know that it is a reoccuring theme but that music, Euro-Techno pop really just sucked the life out of me, almost got depressed. Better now though. Event comments: The good folks at CORE did an excellent job at the event. Lots of hard work behind the scenes and I had a great time. CORE, you guys ROCK! Thanks for everything as always. Last updated: 2008-04-27 12:00 AM
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Tulsa Area Triathletes
60F / 16C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 217/291
Age Group = 50-54
Age Group Rank = 11/12
Started with 6 pounds of angel hair pasta night before, toss and turn all night, roll out of bed at 0300. Try to eat, go to bathroom-nothing, try to eat, go to bathroom-again nothing. repeat this exercise for, oh let's say about 5 hours, but you get the idea. Two bananas down finally, half a bagel with peanut butter and $7.25 worth of sport enhancement gels, goos and other elixirs that I was told I couldn't live without, geez this is my first sprint TRI, I'm ready to hit something, lets do this. At this time I have ennough protein, carbs, amino acids and electrolytes in me to do the Boston, NY and Route 66 marathons with just enough left over for a spirited jog to grand ma's house up in Springfield, MO. Still haven't been able to go to the bathroom but I have air virtually uncontrollbly flying from every oriface at this juncture and a resting heart beat of 188, thats per minute folks. Then I discover there is no clydesdale class, 242 lb I'm still considered svelte. That coupled with a 9:29 posted pre race time I get the honors of entering the water seeded 205 with a little over an hour to wait. Number 202 jumps in a have roughly a minute and now mother nature calls. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, off I go in the water with my patented "Jive", that is a jumping-dive looks goofy but hey we can't dive here. Thats the pre-race folks, left some of the ugly pre game rituals out due to the fact young children may read this. I played football and boxed so we do very crazy things in the locker room as ex-gladiators before we entered the arena. Hope that I spared the women and children any ugly visuals but as a "Newbie" this was my pre-race
Jog to the bathroom 400 meters, stretch, back outside, jog to the bathroom, another 400 meters, stretch, back outside. Jump up and down and shake arms and legs. Crack the neck every 7-8 seconds and make no eye contact with my competition. Splash water on face and stare at the sky trying to find and go to that "Happy Place".