Race Reports for Utah Summer Games

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Race rating (3)

Comments: Post race was very little, just food and water in the finish shute. Not much else. Of course, been that I see some much higher caliber races around Vegas and California, my standards are pretty high overall. Mainly disapointed they don't use the same tools that we have for setting up swim course. That was my biggest disapointment. Biggest item about this race overall, is that my final time was only 20min slower than the first place athlete, so that also prooves that he was on a longer swim course. He was about 15 - 18min slower than his normal course. Typical swim is 1500m, 40k bike and 10k bike. Here the swim and bike were longer. Fun race, and penalty's of course length applied to everyone. So it was still an awesome race in that perspective. I would do it again next year.

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[2]

Race rating (3)

Comments: I will try to keep this short, since overall, it was a great race for me. I couldn't have done more to be better. I have to admit, I was NOT fired up about this race at all. The least fired up I have ever been about a race. The last few Oly races I have held back a little, so I decided to go all out this time a see what happened. I was going to cruise on the swim, hammer the bike, and hold on for the run. It worked out just like I planned. The swim was the swim - pretty much status quo. On the bike, I kept it in high Z4 for most of the ride and averaged over 19mph! That is the fastest I have EVER averaged on the bike leg! I also moved the seat forward about 3cm a couple weeks ago because it felt like it "needed" to be moved. I really felt more earo and powerful with that small change. Kept me a little more forward and over the bars which allowed me to be over my elbows a little more - very comfortable. I also decided to really attack the hills more and not lose time on

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