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Comments: Everyone is saying this course was long. God I hope so cuz that was the slowest pace I've swam in the previous 6 weeks. It was a rough start but with so many people in my wave I was anticipating an underwater boxing match at the start. Got cracked in the head pretty hard, but I stuck to my line and had what felt like a good swim. I swam all the way in until my hand hit the bottom, stood up, hit the lap button on my watch, noticed it said 38 something and thought "You gotta be kidding me 38 freaking minutes!". What would you do differently?: Not be a MOP swimmer. It may not happen this year, maybe not even next year. But eventually I will swim FOP!!!  Transition 1
Comments: Transition was fine. Fairly quick in and out. No messing about. What would you do differently?: Move a little bit quicker  Bike
Comments: The bike went well. I just kept saying "Race smart". I stuck to my wattage plan and every time I went above my pre-determined wattage I would slow down. I really wanted to run well off the bike. I think I could have gone another 5-10 watts harder and had the same run result. I felt great on the bike the whole time. I hit the 24 mile mark right at the hour so I made more of an effort to take in the calories I needed. Managed to get about 600 calories in on the bike and that worked out perfect. What would you do differently?: Push a little harder. My heart rate was pretty low. I should have averaged 3-5 bpm more. Transition 2
Comments: Kinda slow here. Not sure why. I felt like I was moving quick. What would you do differently?: Definitely should have went faster. I didn't feel like I was lollygagging.  Run
Comments: I feel like this is where it all came together. I told myself to keep my HR around the mid 150's for the first loop and depending on how I felt drill the second. So my HR was right at 155 average and pushing about 7:35 mile pace for the first loop. Heading into the second I took a Roctane and just pushed as hard as my legs would let me go, which put me at about 165 hr and 7:15 mile pace. I think I could've turned it up a little earlier and been under 4:40:00 but I'm happy with the time. What would you do differently?: Nothing I ran smart and to my ability. Post race
Warm down: Sat down and immediately took my shoes off. I ran without socks and it showed. My feet were pretty beat up. What limited your ability to perform faster: I think experience is still a limiter for me. Another year or two and I'll be ready to motor on this course. Event comments: I'll get this out first. I'm freaking super happy with my PR. Almost 20 minutes faster than I've ever gone for this distance. I feel like my swim and run are starting to come around, but I've still got a ways to go. This race has got me super amped for Ironman Arizona. I've had my mid-season break and I feel mentally ready to start logging the big mileage. Last updated: 2008-05-22 12:00 AM
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5430 Sports Corp.
70'sF / 0C
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Overall Rank = 77/1100
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 11/137
After last month at Lake Stevens 70.3 I decided I wanted to take a much more relaxed position towards racing. Before that race I was really uptight. I was following my taper to a tee. My diet was spot-on and my weight was pretty low. What that ended up doing was adding a lot of stress when I should have been relaxed. Before 5430 I really didn't taper. I had a light training week but the prior weekend I did a 72 mile ride and ran 16 the next day. I just thought well I gotta get the miles in and 5430 is just a "B" race anyways. No big deal. I kept my pre-race anxiety in check and it helped a lot. We headed up to Boulder the on Saturday. Picked up my race packet and had dinner at Pasta Jay's with JuliaPurr and ChrisP. Listening to her Iron stories is really inspiring. Great food and great company.
None. Just some stretching and like I said focused on relaxing.