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Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance - TriathlonSprint
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Comments: Well, let's see. Not all that bad of a swim. I swallowed some water after getting kicked in the side rounding the first buoy, and the subsequent coughing spell resulted in a stitch in my side that took a while to ease out of. Isn't this sport great? Still, just swam and swam and swam. Had the stupid backup goggles on, but they were fine; I never even thought about them. Swim time included the 250 meter run up the steep hill from the reservoir to T1. That would make me feel better about my time, except for the fact that the top finisher in my AG finished the swim AND THAT RUN in 11:53. Damn. What would you do differently?: Learn to draft; do some more OWS to try and stick to a line. I guess, on reflection, the OWS I was doing in Lake Superior wasn't really helping my navigation -- we were just swimming along shorelines or beaches, we weren't swimming to a bouy, so sticking to a straight line wasn't crucial, or even noticeable. On the positive side, note that I'm getting the basic mechanics of swimming down -- the stroke, the breathing, not freaking out. I'm moving on to the more advanced parts of tri-specific swimming: OWS, drafting, navigation.  Transition 1
Comments: Once over the timing mat into the TA, I had to run the length of the TA to my bike rack, over some damn painful gravel on the asphalt. Hurt like hell, made bad time. T1 itself was too slow. I decided, at the last minute, to change from the sunglasses to the clear glasses, since the sun hadn't comeout in the time I had gone in the water. Should have anticipated that. Killed some time finding the clear glasses. I should go ahead and start practicing the shoes on bike thing. That would help my time. What would you do differently?: Go faster. Develop leather soles for feet. Obsess more. Obsess about my relative level of obsession: Is it enough? Too much? Not enough? Just right? Obsessive? Excessive?  Bike
Comments: I figured I'd go out hard on this one, and I did. I like the bike, I'm comfortable on the bike, I'm getting better on the bike, get the hell out of my way, I'm on my bike! Felt good to just bomb it. I don't think I got passed by anyone in my AG, and I evidently passed a few of mine -- fell in with a group of sprint duathletes who were swapping back and forth (no drafting) and talking it up. Had a Sheriff's deputy tell me "Go get 'em, tiger!" -- must be the Javelin trisuit. Saw the guy on the Felt S32 with the hed 3 spke/disc that I had passed at Buckeye Lake and told him that I recognized his bike. Had fun! Oh yeah, the road was wet but not soaking; I was never too nervous about traction, but that's because I'm stupid. Had a hammer Gel and a full big bottle of water over the course of the bike. My Cateye says Average 20.6 mph over 13.97 miles in 40:45, though the chip times are quite different -- I'm sure the Cateye counted all the running-with-the-bike minutes at the end, as I had to run ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE TA yet again. Max 32.2 on the Cateye which is okay; chip says average 21, which is nice. What would you do differently?: Save a bit for the run? (Oooooooh, foreshadowing!) Transition 2
Comments: Faster! I stopped to fish out my visor -- why? I don't know?!?! It was still overcast, I didn't need a visor! And yet Istopped to get it. I'm a dork. What would you do differently?: Not be a dork.  Run
Comments: Well, something weird happened here. I didn't bonk, exactly -- I don't know what this was. But I ran much slower than I had anticipater, and much slower than I wanted to, and I'm lucky that I got through the run in the time that I did. I got off the bike and felt pretty good -- marked out a tall runner in my AG 50 meters ahead and said I was going to run his pace. I was doing good for the first 500 meters, but then started to feel bad -- queasy stomach. Kept going, hoping it was a crazy legs transition thing, run through it. Got to mile 1 in 7:30, that's okay, but then I started to fall apart. Blah, gack, burping, sotmach feels full and queasy. Had to walk a bit, run a bit. Got to the turnaround and started to feel better -- marked out an AG guy who passed me, and we traded spots a bit. I was feeling better and thought I'd save up some energy to catch him in the last 500 meters, but when we got to the spot that I thought he was going to slow down in (the last hill ) the SOB started sprinting! I tried to follow him in but didn't do so hot. Had a glass of Infini-T halfway through, blast of water in T2. What would you do differently?: Not have as much for breakfast? I don't know . . . I've done like three major bricks since my last tri, I thought I was doing pretty good in this transition-to-run thing. What the hell was this? Too much food? Not enough food? Not enough water? Post race
Warm down: wandered, ate PBJ, brooded about doing poorly What limited your ability to perform faster: I just don't know -- not much experience riding on a wet road, and I had a weird issue with my stomach on the run. Not well rested enough? Event comments: HFP rocks, I like them a bunch. They had lots and lots of volunteers at this race, in contrast with the woefully understaffed Buckeye Lake Tri/Du. One suggestion: instead of telling us that our wave will go off at 8:06AM, which it never does, just tell us that we're in wave 1 and the waves will start shortly after 8. Coming nowhere close to these meticulously scheduled start times just makes the organiazers look unnecessarily unorganized. Last updated: 2006-08-07 12:00 AM
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 2006-08-27 10:59 PM |
Master  1938     La Crosse |  Subject: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance |
| 2006-08-28 7:59 AM in reply to: #523737 |
Expert 1092 Earth | Subject: RE: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance Sorry I didn't find you. And that gravel, that was SO MUCH fun. Dang next time why don't they break some bottles while their at it? Sheeeesss sweep the dang area, it would not have been that flipping hard to do. Good time and I would have happily taken your run. I'll look for you at another race, maybe the Pineman. Since I am planning on doing that. I was having second thoughts, but I think I will any way.
Edited by wsm9363 2006-08-28 8:00 AM |
| 2006-08-28 8:27 AM in reply to: #523737 |
Master 1397 Granvile, Ohio Silver member | Subject: RE: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance Holy crap - GREAT bike time! Go getem tiger! Anyway, good job! Sorry we didn't get to meet up. I saw wsm talking to someone before the race and thought it might be you, but guess it wasn't. |
Only thing the cop said to me was "you look like you could use a rest....." 
Sorry you had such a tough time on the run. I hate it when I do poorly and can't quite figure out what went wrong. It doesn't seem as bad if I know there was something I can fix.| 2006-08-28 8:59 AM in reply to: #523737 |
Champion 7553  Albuquerque, New Mexico | Subject: RE: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance |
| 2006-08-28 9:44 AM in reply to: #523737 |
Expert 913 St. Louis | Subject: RE: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance |
| 2006-08-28 9:48 AM in reply to: #523737 |
| 10 | Subject: RE: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance Nice race! I was wondering if I might have been one of the guys in the bike group who kept passing each other. Everytime I would pass of these dudes they would come right back, and vice versa. I agree with the swim comments! I got mobbed going around that first buoy. The "transition" from swim to T1 was rough as well. |
| 2006-08-28 10:36 AM in reply to: #523737 |
Expert 664 Ross, Ohio | Subject: RE: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance I love the race report, the Noah stuff was priceless. Sorry you did not have the race you wanted but at Pineman I will personally deliver some good mojo, so only good things to come. |
| 2006-08-28 2:23 PM in reply to: #523737 |
Science Nerd 28760 Redwood City, California | Subject: RE: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance Love your race reports. Great race!! I hate the races where you have to run over gravel. I'm going through the same problems with sighting in the OWS. Not sure there is ever a good way to practice. Your times/paces put me to shame... |
| 2006-08-28 6:22 PM in reply to: #523737 |
Buttercup 14334 | Subject: RE: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance If they gave bonus points for well-written race reports, you'd qualify for Kona everytime. I thought you did GREAT! p.s. Thanks for the foreshadowing the foreshadowing. |
| 2006-08-29 7:17 AM in reply to: #523737 |
 Extreme Veteran 1491 northeast Ohio | Subject: RE: Buck Creek Triathlon - Sprint Distance Congratulations on your race!!!!!! Loved the RR. Isn't if fun dissecting a race? Why did that happen? Why did this happen? Why did Noah only bring two worms after all they don't take up much room? Smokin' bike split btw! Can't wait for the next RR! |
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Got to bed about midnight -- had a backyard party with the neighbors, complete with band. So I was a bit bushed, but still game, at 4AM when I got up for this nearly 2 hour drive. I think that 2 hours is going to be the limit for driving on day-of-race. I don't really mind the drive, but still, it's a bit far to go for a man whose daily commute is .75 of a mile.
Got out the door at 4:30 after eating whole wheat bagel, small bowl of Kashi and two cups coffee. Had a naner and water bottle for the car (foreshadowing: perhaps this was too much food? Still, I was eating at 4AM and the race wasn't staring until 8 -- more than enough time! OR WAS IT?!?!?!?!)
Columbus was experienced torrential downpour of biblical proportions as I drove through. Saw Noah. Did you know Noah didn't do much fishing on the Ark? He only had the two worms, so . . .
I was starting to think that the race would be washed away, but the rain was lifting as I got to the reservoir.
Got to the site in plenty of time -- I could have left home a half hour later. Had a leisurely stroll around, set up in a good spot, obsessed and dithered a bit, looked for wsm but didn't find him, obsessed some more, got in the (warmish) water and stretched and swam around a bit.