Swim
Comments: What a rough swim. Aquabikers were in the 7th wave, and all previous waves had 4 minute intervals. But for whatever reason, they started us just 2 minutes after the wave in front. That meant that 100 yards in I was swimming all over people. It was like that th erest of the way. Got kicked in the face. And, rounding the last bouy, I swam into a girl who was treading water. We knocked skulls pretty hard (still have a bump on my forehead), and when I came up, it looked like she was going down. But then she popped up and said she was OK. Lost maybe 5 seconds there. Didn't feel great at the start, because of not enough warm up, probably. But after 10 minutes I settled in nicely. Transition 1
Comments: 6th fasted T1 on the day What would you do differently?: Nuthin. Bike
Comments: PR HIM bike by ~10 minutes. And on a hilly course to boot. And without race wheels. And with heavy-ass PT wheels. Oh yeah...204 watts average. What would you do differently?: Race wheels! I got passed by th eother aquabike race at mile 49...he ended up beating my by about 1.5 minutes. With different wheels, it would have been a different race. Transition 2
Comments: Having just finished the aquabike race, it was pretty tempting to pack it in. Run
Comments: Warmdown run. Just steady...never pushing. Super tight legs from pushing the bike, but otherwise fine. Unofficial 4:57:56 HIM. On a hilly course. Post race
Event comments: So I 'm pretty excited for B2B. I sub 11 hour race is looking extremely doable. With some race wheels (I've rented a set of Zipp 1080s for the race) and on a flat course, 5:45 at least on the bike should be easily within my range. Add a sub 4 hour marathon and a 45 minute sim (its a completely down-current swim, and that adds up to 10:45 with conservative transitions. Last updated: 2008-09-08 12:00 AM
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75F / 24C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 2/2
Age Group = Aquabike
Age Group Rank = 1/1
Got up crazy early (3:15) to drive to Greenwood. Ate waffles and oatmeal, drank diet coke and gatorade.
A little 10 minute run and ~300 yards of swimming.