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Mike Collingwood Memorial Triathlon - Triathlon

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Gatineau Park, Ontario
Canada
19C / 66F
Overcast

Total Time = 1h 57m 45s
Overall Rank = 131/175
Age Group = M 45-49
Age Group Rank = 14/14

Pre-race routine:

Up before 5am. Bagel/peanut butter, banana and energy drink. 1st racer to arrive. Coach thinks I'm too much of a keener. Picked up race kit. Dropped off rungear-bag at T2 and rode 1k to beach/T1 with swim/bike gear.

Event warmup:

Got my suit on early and had a good swim w/up. Swam out for 5-10 mins. Swam back doing drills.

Swim

23m 45s
1200 meters
01m 59s / 100 meters

What would you do differently?:

Good pace and breathing but not a great swim because of poor navigation with foggy goggles.

Transition 1

02m 54s

Comments:

Took extra time to pack all my gear into my bag before leaving because the volunteers were going to move it to T2 after we biked out.

Bike

55m
22 kms
24.00 km/hr

Transition 2

00m 47s

Comments:

guess'timate time

What would you do differently?:

Pretty fast

Run

35m 20s
7 kms
05m 03s min/km

Comments:

Hardest run and pushed harder than any past ran. Desperate to come in under 2hrs because of the fast field.

What would you do differently?:

nothing except to look for a race with more slow runner or wait until I age up.

Post race

Warm down:

Lots of walking and talking and eating. Really good food (fresh mini muffins, froze fruit, yogurt) Stayed for the awards for a change because I wanted to ride after and because they had lots great door prizes (won nothing)

What limited your ability to perform faster:

All 3 segments were faster than my training times and I think I went as fast as I could possibly go. Still came in last. Go news is that this time would give me 12/18 next year.

Last updated: 2006-12-25 12:00 AM

Swimming
00:23:45 \| 1200 meters \| 01m 59s / 100meters
Age Group:	14/14
Overall:	125/175
Performance:	Average
Excellent start off the beach. Waded in and then dolphin dives out to swimable water. No violence and good pace/breathing control to 1st buoy. Googles fogged badly and had trouble navigating. I stopped to clear them but it came right back. I did a left turn at the 1st buoy and realized after ~10m. Got back on course and followed other swimmers. Couldn't find anyone to draft. On the return leg I lined up on the crowd on the beach and when I stood up I found that I had missed the swim exit by 10m. Ran through the knee deep water to the exit.
Suit:	RB as usual
Course:	Triangle off the beach. Each side of the triangle had 2 buots but you could only see the 1st one from the beach. Nice coral setup on beach and swimmer when off in waves of 30 at 1 min intervals.
Start type:	Wade	Plus:	Waves
Water temp:	0F / 0C	Current:	Medium
200M Perf.	Good	Remainder:	Average
Breathing:	Good	Drafting:
Waves:		Navigation:	Bad
Rounding:	Below average

T1
Time:	02:54
Performance:	Average
Cap removal:	Good	Helmet on/ Suit off:	No
Wetsuit stuck?	No	Run with bike:	Yes
Jump on bike:	Yes
Getting up to speed:	Good

Biking
00:55:00 \| 22 kms \| 24.00 km/hr
Age Group:	14/14
Overall:	154/175
Performance:	Good
Wind:	Some
Course:
Road:	Smooth Dry	Cadence:
Turns:	Good	Cornering:	Good
Gear changes:	Good	Hills:	Good
Race pace:	Too hard	Drinks:	Not enough

T2
Time:	00:47
Overall:	Good
Riding w/ feet on shoes		Good
Jumping off bike
Running with bike
Racking bike
Shoe and helmet removal

Running
00:35:20 \| 07 kms \| 05m 03s min/km
Age Group:	14/14
Overall:	101/175
Performance:	Good
Jump off bike in one lane, put on shoes in the other lane and run straight up a hill. Legs really struggled to get going but pushed hard. Felt like they would cramp for 1k but luckily didn't. 1st 2k at 5:05 (included walk through water station) 3k 4:59 4k 4:53 (started big push at turn around but return is mostly uphill) 5k 5:17 HR avg 170 for last 3k) 6k 5:20 7k 4:14
Course:	Out and back on rolling hills. Out is net downhill.
Keeping cool	Good	Drinking	Not enough

Post race
Weight change:	%
Overall:	Average
Mental exertion [1-5]	5
Physical exertion [1-5]	5
Good race?	Yes

Evaluation
Course challenge	Too hard
Organized?	Yes
Events on-time?	Yes
Lots of volunteers?	Yes
Plenty of drinks?	Yes
Post race activities:	Good
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