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Comments: The water temperature was perfect, expecially in comparison to the Pokagon it felt like swimming in the Caribean! Most of the time you could not see a thing, just funny effects from the early sun in the water, which was awesome. Had to adjust goggles about 2 min into the swim, was fine afterwards. Once or twice my orientation could have been better, especially the first time around the buoys, I essentially bumped into the buoy! I had to pull down my suit once Didn't like the running around the cone at all, after going through the gate, I wasn't sure how long to keep swimming or whether getting out of the water would be faster. Worse was that we looked against the low sun and I had to essentially by go sound! What would you do differently?: Make sure the googles are right  Transition 1
Comments: Was again pretty slow, #9 out of 10 in AG... By the time I got to the bike I had the wet suit half off. Not sure what took so long, probably drying my feet? Also, the bike got briefly stuck at the rack with the right pedal... No gel this time What would you do differently?: Get more space!  Bike
Comments: As I was so fast out of the water, the start of the bike was pretty discouraging, I was permanently being passed for the first 5 miles or so! My quads were burning the first miles! Also, my feet were numb at times, tried to stretch and move them within the shoes to get the blood flowing. I stayed maybe 2/3 in aero position, had to stretch my back from time to time On the second loop, we started passing the slow Sprint starters, which felt much better;-) From there on, it was actually very confusing to find out, who is doing which event! I drank my bottle of Gatorade What would you do differently?: Get a better bike... Transition 2
Comments: Was slow again, #8 out of 10 in AG.... Had just a little bit of Gatorade before leaving What would you do differently?: No idea how to get faster  Run
Comments: Started to go out on approx 8:30 pace Didn't feel strong but could not tell what exactly was wrong What would you do differently?: Loose weight! Post race
Warm down: They had great water towels in the finish area Walking around and checking out food and results... What limited your ability to perform faster: Weight! Event comments: Definitely liked the race and will return. The distances must have been different than posted, but the tougher issue for me was the hilly run! Last updated: 2008-05-13 12:00 AM
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70F / 21C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 54/132
Age Group = M35-39
Age Group Rank = 7/10
The race started at 8am and I had approx 90 min drive, so I was planning to get up at 4am, leave at 4.30am so that I would be there at 6am. The 2 hour window proved perfect 2 weeks ago at the Pokagon...
I actually got up a little earlier, because I could not sleep anymore. I had a small bowl of cereal, and on the way I had 1 Red Bull, a little bit of Gatorade, 1 ClifBar and 1 banana. Cut off for nutrition was approx 5am.
I showed up at 5.45am and looked around. The transition area was on a parking lot which was great, no grass to mess around with.
Packet pickup was good, the only problem at the time was that the body marking volunteers showed up very late, must have been after 7am, so there were long lines, but they handled it quickly so it was no big issue.
he body markings turned out a little confusing later, the age was on one calf, the event on the other. For the event though, they used "S", "O" and many "T"s, for the Ts it was never quite clear if they were actually sprints or Olys.
Transition area was closed down at 7.45am, I had a gel then plus some Gatorade. Then everybody went down to the beach for the swim start.
I had entered the race in the Clydesdale division, which I won
There were 8 Clydesdales, my swim was #2, T1 was #3, the bike #2, T2 was #2, the run #4
Not much of a warmup, just waiting for the fun to start!