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Comments: Bad swim. The distance is wrong. I had poor form, no drafting, and terrible navigation. I think the form was due to poor navigation. I never had a chance to feel comfy and just swim. I was always adjusting. I was never close to a buoy. I need to get a ton more OWSs. What would you do differently?: More OWSs.  Transition 1
Comments: This was a good transition. The time seems bad but it was due to a longer beach run. I got out of wetsuit and into helmet and shoes very quicly with a nice run to the mount line, or as I misspoke according to my buddies, the "mountain lion". What would you do differently?: Really, only start in shoes which I won't be doing for a while.  Bike
Comments: The course was actually a 10.2 so the pace was 20.68. I'm happy with this bike. I've been doing a little more long course training for Timberman so I think I could have done even better but I am happy. I had to coast behind someone on a hybrid in the single file line for quite a while as well, so I was really about 21mph. She was really cool about it and told me to pass but I didn't want to get a penalty which I explained. She was visibly stressed out by me behind her so I just told her she was doing great and that I hoped she was having fun today. What would you do differently?: Train more for speed. But, I am more worried about doing well at Timberman, so nothing really. Transition 2
Comments: Very happy with this transition. I wish this race kept track of everyone's times. I had my shoes off prior to the dismountain lion easily, ran with bike, helmet off easily, new Zoot shoes on (no socks) very very easily, grab race belt, and off I went. What would you do differently?: Nothing really, I ran out of transition at the pace I wanted on the run so no premature heart spike (or lull).  Run
Comments: It was a good run but not good enough. The course was actually 3.76 so the pace was 6:52. I recently ran a 5k that I was pretty happy with at a 6:48 so I can't complain. But, if I am going to be anywhere near an age group contender I need to be at 6:20 or so. I know I can get there for a sprint. Pretty soon I hope. What would you do differently?: Train more for speed. Again, I've been concentrating on a hybrid of sprint and Timberman type distances. So, if I wanted this to be a real A race training should have been different. Post race
Warm down: Stretched a while waiting for buddies. They did really well. One, a clydesdale, was 13th overall for clydes. First time with a poor swim and run. He's a strong biker naturally since he finished about 250 with only training for a total of 3 months with no prior experience. The other had a poor swim, used a mountain bike, and still finished in the lower middle of his age group (25-29). He had a nice run. They did so well for their first race and really enjoyed it. What limited your ability to perform faster: Half arsed sprint training and a bad swim. Event comments: Great event. Beautiful course. I didn't get top ten age group goal. I swam poorly, had a good bike (but needs to be 1-2 mph faster, an ok run that needs to be much faster, and pretty good transitions. Last updated: 2009-02-21 12:00 AM
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70F / 21C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 97/847
Age Group = M30-34
Age Group Rank = 19/59
Up at 5AM, bagel immediately, coffee shortly thereafter. Helped my two first timer buddies out of the hotel. We had everything packed and were at the course nice and early. The main routine was really just bagel about 2 hours before the start, a GU 15 minutes before start, and an easy bike warm up, and not much of a swim warm up. This time some of the morning was spent making sure my buddies were set up in transition and warmed up sufficiently. Got to hang out with Josh for a few minutes here and there but not as much as I would have liked. I was a little frantic with making sure my buddies were cool and had a sprint to the bathroom about 7 minutes before my wave started (or was supposed to start anyway).
Biked the run course and stop reading:
Ran from the swim start with 7 minutes left to the bathroom, a set of 1 rep squats, and back through the sand for a 25 yard swim warm up, run to age group start. Begin reading again :)