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Comments: Did not even realize how the leader group pulled away, and everybody else stayed back so By the first buoy I was all by myself, I like that better anyway The swim itself was great, the water temp was perfect, and the water great Coming out of the water was difficult, started walking but the water was still too deep so I went back to swimming What would you do differently?: Nothing really, maybe simply swim longer  Transition 1
Comments: Was in the second to last row of bikes, very good! Suit stuck a little, had trouble balancing Took one gel and some gatorade What would you do differently?: Go faster!!!!  Bike
Comments: Very cool race, I was very surprised to see at the turnaround, that I was in 6th place, by that time I had passed 2 people and had been passed twice. Before the end of the bike three more people had passed me so I was in 9th place The course was slightly uphill and with headwind on the way out, so back in was fast Around mile 5 I started to feel some slight stomach discomfort, got it under control by drinking less, felt okay then but should come back pretty strongly later in the run... What would you do differently?: Eat less before the race, I think that was the cause for the stomach problems Transition 2
Comments: Took one gel and a sip of gatorade What would you do differently?: Nothing really  Run
Comments: Started on a 8mpm pace and kept that until mile 4. Got passed once and passed one person myself. On the way back I passed another runner (in my age group), but then the stomach problems began around mile 4. Had to slow down to approx 8:30-8:45 pace and was just happy that I could keep going. Luckily, nobody else passed me in that last phase What would you do differently?: Not sure where the stomach problems came from, probably from too much food in the morning! Post race
Warm down: pizza, melon, water and gatorade What limited your ability to perform faster: Stomach problems Event comments: Overall a good race, organization turned out better than the pre-race email confusion was suggesting Last updated: 2008-08-06 12:00 AM
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United States
75F / 24C
Overcast
Overall Rank = 9/56
Age Group = M35-39
Age Group Rank = 2/7
Had a little over 90 minute drive to Port Huron, left around 4.15am, registration and transition were opening at 6am. Got there around 6.20 or so, plenty of time to prepare
Did not know my start wave until I got there, turned out that I was in the first wave
I had two bowls of cereal at home plus a gatorade, on the drive I had two bars, two large Red Bulls and a medium coffee. In hindsight, I think that I had too much to eat
Just a little stretching