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Comments: This was crazy. I started in the front and ended mid pack. I was doing great running in and jumping over the crashed waves. But then I tried to jump over the first tall wave and it caught me and through me back. I lost a lot of ground. Atleast 30 feet. Then I had to fight the big break again. This time I dived under the wave and that worked great. Once we were past the break, I could start to swim a little more normal. I was still struggling quite a bit as the water was much more choppy than the day before. After rounding the first buoy it really sucked going parallel to the beach. The choppy waves would crash into your face as you tried to breath. Oh, and my new goggles that I never got to test, leaked on one eye. My eye was not a fan of the salt water. Rounding the second buoy, I am thinking I can't wait to get back on land. Then I am hitting where the waves break again. I try to catch one of the bigger waves. I rode it a little, but nothing too exciting. Then it was time to run out of the water and up the beach to the transition area which was a ridiculous distance away. My feet didn't like running down the rough street. What would you do differently?: Not loose my goggles the day before, and have to try knew goggles on race day. Also, I would not try to jump over large waves.  Transition 1
Comments: Things actually went really well I thought in transition. Especially since it was my first time racing with a wetsuit and also having to wash sand off my feet. What would you do differently?: Just be quicker.  Bike
Comments: My bike computer showed 9.6 miles and also, 20.4 average. I loved the bike. I passed a ton of guys that had just worked me in the swim. I ended up hooking up with a dude that was also going well. We rode side by side a lot and encouraged each other. What would you do differently?: Nothing, the bike rocked. Transition 2
Comments: This is a pretty simple transition and hard to mess up.  Run
Comments: The run went great, I PRed my 5k time!!! I didn't have any pain in my ankle, which I was worried about. I felt strong. They had a 1 mile marker and I hit that at 7:30. So then I was pumped up and picked it up even more. I ran the last 2 miles well under 7 minute mile pace. I was feeling great. I had just past 2 guys in my age group with one mile to go. I was really hoping to run fast enough to keep them behind me. One of the guys came back to challenge me and I was able to pick it up more. I beat him by only 2 seconds. We congradulated each other for a great run. What would you do differently?: Run faster. LOL Post race
Warm down: Stagger around and eat some food. What limited your ability to perform faster: My swim is lame. I need to continue to train on the bike and run to cut down my times there also. If I could just cut down my times by 2 minutes in each event, I would have been top ten. Event comments: I had a great time. I wished they timed T1 and T2 instead of just adding it to the bike. Also, the swim seemed too far. LOL Profile Album Last updated: 2008-07-25 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 124/519
Age Group = 30-34
Age Group Rank = 17/59
Got up early ate my peanut butter and honey sandwich. Then I woke Larissa up, who wasn't feeling too good. Then drove to Imperial Beach. We had to park a mile away. I set up my transition area and then just waited. I had to visit the porta john 2 times. LOL I watched the first waves start. It made me grin ear to ear. I was getting excited. Then I finally found Larissa again. I had lost her since I parked the car (she was sleeping in it). We chatted and I had her zip my wetsuit up.
No warm up too much. I did wave my arms around a bit and do some stretching. Then I moved to the front of the line of the wave. Might as well start first, right.