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Comments: MY GOD! I thought I was ok at swimming.Well I thought I was gonna die within 100m Stayed at the back to keep away from mad rush still got wacked in the head twice kicked in face once and swum over FREAKED I stopped and let everyone get away from me couldnt breath (never swum in wettie before) Shoulders burnt from 200m mark on couldnt get the same rythm that I have in pool. Had to breath everystroke chest was real tight. Also swam a little of course so had to keep realighning. What would you do differently?: Have just go TI dvd and books going back to basics and learning how to swim from start. spent last session at pool just doing drills 1&2 Swim more in open water to build confidence. Eventually might buy a proper tri wettie. And not try and drink the ocean dry.  Transition 1
Comments: Transition times not recorded. Breathing Hard Wettie come of pretty good as I lubed myself up Thanx to tips on this site. Put shoes on first then got on bike Top got alittle stuck getting on but no real drama What would you do differently?: Practice practice practice  Bike
Comments: Felt good during ride was definatly glad to be out of water. Dont have tri bars put kept low on bike Transition 2
Comments: Took shoe off before coming into Transitin Cramp alway down obliques Man it hurt Hopled to rack still crampping bent over to put runners on now both obliques cramping exrishiating pain What would you do differently?: NOT CRAMP  Run
Comments: Once running abs stopped cramping took about 500m to get my running legs. Calfs were a little tight Just kept it at a run/jog pace. Had no energy left due to Swim What would you do differently?: Practice Brick training Post race
Warm down: Once i got to the finished walked about 100 m shaking out legs then conducted some stretching What limited your ability to perform faster: My lack of swimming ability No brick training Event comments: Good race well done to the organisers, Even though I was in pain would do it again Last updated: 2004-11-16 12:00 AM
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 2004-11-16 8:23 PM |
Member  81  taswegia |  Subject: Fairbrothers Sprint Triathlon |
| 2004-11-17 3:51 AM in reply to: #83486 |
Extreme Veteran 348 Melbourne | Subject: RE: Fairbrothers Sprint Triathlon Well all in all I would say that you ride and run BLOODY fast! Nice work on that run after all the rest before. I am envious! Sounded like a bad swimming experience - a tri-wetsuit is the ONLY way to go - a normal wettie will add times to your overall swim performance for so many reasons but At least you didn't freeze to death  Congrats on getting this done and I look forward to your next race report. Wish me luck for Sunday! 500m swim / 20km ride / 5km run - first sprint for the season. Ahhhhhh M |
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Race didnt start till 1pm.
Left home at 7, took 3 hrs to drive up.
Registered then had a few hours to kill so walked along the bike and run track so I new where it goes.
Around 1215 started to organise transition
Race Brief 1245
Start was at 1310 right on High tide
moved to start at 1300 and got in water brrr!
Did a few laps of circuit on bike
Swam out a bit from start and back for 10 min
First time in a wetsuit and it was a surfing wettie so felt wierd