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Comments: I started myself up front knowing I was probably one of the better swimmers for this race and I haven't quite figured out how to swim over people yet. My first fresh water tri. What would you do differently?: I need to learn how to push myself in open water. I was one of the first in my wave out of the water, and I think my time was around 8 minutes and I know I can do much better than that.  Transition 1
Comments: I slowly jogged to T1. I just put on my helmet and went. There was a long muddy way before you comuld mount. I had my shoes elasticed on the bike and I sliped my right foot in, but the left band broke early and I struggled to get my left foot in the shoe. What would you do differently?: Not be injured so I could run faster.  Bike
Comments: Once I got my feet in my shoes I was off. There were few tri bikes or road bikes at this event. Wendi and I like to check out the bikes but no eye candy at this event...well except for our bikes...Lots of mountain bikes, cross bikes and even a few beach cruiser bikes...one even had a basket on the front. Pretty easy to pass. There was a really annoying no pass zone about 1/2 mile long or so. You could only go as fast as the mountain bike in front of you. It was kind of a nice break. Catch your breath, getout of aero, enjoy some gatorade. The bike was fun. As always. I really pounded the bike because of my injury and the plan of walking the run I figured I could go all out. What would you do differently?: Had trouble with my shoes for the first time. I'm definately better with elastics than trying to clip in. Not sure what went wrong. Build more endurance to go FASTER>>> Transition 2
Comments: Jogged with bike. Heard Marcy's husband cheering for me (THANKS) Went fine. Slipped on shoes and decided to forgo socks which turned out to be a mistake. Grabbed my hat and race belt and off I went. Ran thru trasition What would you do differently?: Once again not be injured so I can run  Run
Comments: Ran out thru transition (OK don't everyone yell at me yet as I stryed from the walking plan...you can do that later) because there were like 200 people yelling to go and I just couldn't not run. Made the corner and WALKED up the very muddy hill and into the park. I know the plan was to walk the run. BUT who of you who really know me thought I would be able to do that????? I'm just WAY too competitive. It would have been worse in any other race tho. Got into the park and started to jog/walk/jog. I caught up to an older lady who was walking and asked her if she was part of team survivor (breast cancer survivors doing the race)She said no, and asked if I was. I said no, but I was running for my mom who is a breast cancer survivor. We walked together for a while and I started to jog again and we wished each other good luck. Wasn't feeling too bad hip wise, and by the time I made it to Its a Small World my hip was getting sore so I decided to walk. Discoverd it hurt more to walk than to run so decided to run again. About this time I'm thinking...hey this no sock thing is working out pretty good. HA By the time I came out of Tommorrow land the blisters had started.. I started to walk again and this other racer starts yelling at me 'keep going you can't stop now you're almost done" OK so once again I succummed to peer pressure. Came thru Cinderellas castle and spotted the photographer. I didn't want to look like I was dying or tripping over my feet so I made an attempt to look like I was running instead of my shuffling jog thing. I knew I only had a litttle further to go so I picked it up and sucked it up til the finish. What would you do differently?: Not be injured. Put my socks on. Post race
Warm down: went to the medical tent to tend to my blisters (mild amount of blood stains in my shoe)and ice for my hip. Drank my water. Found my family, found Wendi's family. Watched Wendi finish. We all hung out and took pictures. Got our stuff out of transition and headed back to the boats to the parking lots. What limited your ability to perform faster: 1)Don't know how to pace myself in open water 2)Hip fracture 3)Blisters 4) Can't run secondary to number 2 Event comments: It was an interesting race. Its really more of an event than a race. The focus is on finishing and the celebration of finishing and not so much racing and going fast. It is a race I would highly reccommend for a first timer. Everyone was really friendly. It being at Disney makes it a little difficult to get around, but it was really cool to run thru the park. It raises money for a good cause that is near and dear to my heart. Last updated: 2005-04-16 12:00 AM
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 2005-05-16 7:40 AM |
Champion  7704     Williamston, Michigan |  Subject: Danskin |
| 2005-05-16 7:49 AM in reply to: #158070 |
| , Alabama | Subject: RE: Danskin NICE pic of your hip. I wouldn't be so bold as to take a picture of MY hip and put it up for everyone to view Sharon |
, but if you got it, flaunt it!! Anywway great race. Hope your hip is feeling better today. HAS to be tough to race injured, particularly when everyone is telling you to run!| 2005-05-16 8:16 AM in reply to: #158070 |
Extreme Veteran 332 PohangSi | Subject: RE: Danskin 44/194! Wow, with no hip! That is awesome! Great Job! Can't wait to see you race healthy. |
| 2005-05-16 9:40 AM in reply to: #158070 |
| Extreme Veteran 348 Honolulu, HI | Subject: RE: Danskin Sue, you're nuts!! I knew you would run, as all us docs make the worst patients, bar none... LOL... you did great, and I hope you're not too sore today. Now let that sucker heal, woman!! |
| 2005-05-16 10:16 AM in reply to: #158070 |
Extreme Veteran 401 Plant City, Florida | Subject: RE: Danskin great race and even better run....totally caught me off guard....congrats .....now lets get better and get ready for the next one..... |
| 2005-05-16 10:54 AM in reply to: #158070 |
| Extreme Veteran 380 | Subject: RE: Danskin Nice race! I really enjoyed reading your race report. Maybe we will see you there next year! |
| 2005-05-16 11:07 AM in reply to: #158070 |
Master 1494 Kingston Ontario | Subject: RE: Danskin Way to go, Sue!! Holy cow, you ran some of it!! Hope you're OK today. I wouldn't know how to swim over anyone, either...what do you do, shove them down?? Glad you had a fun weekend |
| 2005-05-16 11:16 AM in reply to: #158070 |
Buttercup 14334 | Subject: RE: Danskin I can't believe you ran the run... I can't believe you ran the run... I can't believe you ran the run! Great race!! You run faster with a fractured hip than I run with a whole hip! |
| 2005-05-16 1:04 PM in reply to: #158070 |
Wife, Mother, Friend. 2457 South | Subject: RE: Danskin wow, great job. No sleep, muddy shoes, broken hip.... still an awesome race. What, no LBS support at the race? That sucks. They had a trailer last year. |
| 2005-05-16 1:11 PM in reply to: #158070 |
Elite 3223 Hendersonville | Subject: RE: Danskin Nice race report. My favorite part is putting the hip fracture NUMBER TWO in the limiters list!!!! Funny! Great job- your bike time is awesome. Jessica |
| 2005-05-16 1:15 PM in reply to: #158246 |
Champion 5498 Whizzzzzlandia Silver member | Subject: RE: Danskin I second that!!! Nice job!!!  Whizzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| 2005-05-16 1:59 PM in reply to: #158070 |
Extreme Veteran 461 Northeast Ohio | Subject: RE: Danskin You are one tough woman! ...and my ego is crushed that even with a broken hip you run faster than me! Were you in pain afterwards? |
| 2005-05-16 4:17 PM in reply to: #158070 |
Master 1791 Raleigh, North Carolina | Subject: RE: Danskin Came thru Cinderellas castle and spotted the photographer. I didn't want to look like I was dying or tripping over my feet so I made an attempt to look like I was running instead of my shuffling jog thing LOL! That is soooooo you Sue! This is probably one of the best race reports all year with all the Disney landmarks in it. Glad to see you took it moderately easy on the run. Your bike kicked ass BTW. 4 of 94 in your AG. Damn nice. Keep on sticking to that hip healing plan. Great race!!!! |
| 2005-05-16 7:06 PM in reply to: #158070 |
Champion 7704 Williamston, Michigan | Subject: RE: Danskin Thanks everyone....BTW HIP UPDATE: Its Ok today. It was prettty sore last night and this am, but tylenol is a wonderful drug. I think its finally starting to feel better. I'm not signing up for any more races (unless I decide on the aquabike) until my hip is better because I am too competitive to not run. |
| 2005-05-16 8:09 PM in reply to: #158070 |
Champion 5183 Wisconsin | Subject: RE: Danskin I'm so bummed to have missed meeting ya'll- I CANNOT believe how well you ran on that hip! AMAZING |
| 2005-05-17 12:34 AM in reply to: #158070 |
Master 1480 Plant City, FL | Subject: RE: Danskin As always, super performance--despite the hip!! Glad we could do this race together!! |
| 2005-05-17 8:55 AM in reply to: #158704 |
Resident Matriarch N 43° 32.927 W 071° 24.431 | Subject: RE: Danskin I'm not signing up for any more races (unless I decide on the aquabike) until my hip is better because I am too competitive to not run. damn woman, you know the grief you'd be giving me if I had done what you just did?? LOL Great race, now how about that rest that was prescribed? |
| 2005-05-17 12:20 PM in reply to: #158070 |
Master 2233 Mechanicsburg, PA | Subject: RE: Danskin |
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Overall Rank = 153/1110
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 44/194
Thursday drove to Orlando and met up with my parents. Went to the pool and did a few laps. Walked around DownTown Disney with the 'rents
Friday we did MGM. It was a good time. Walked a lot. Did some more laps. Met up with Wendi and Mike and the kids for dinner that night and to watch Fireworks.
Saturday: Did Animal Kingdom in the am. My parents were tired from the day before a little bit. Went back to the hotel and got registered etc. Met up with Wendi and Marcy who was borrowing my road bike for the race. Handed off the Trek and Wendi and I went over to drop off our bikes at Disney. We get there and I pump my tires, pump Wendis front tire and was having difficulty with her rear tire. Half the stem pops off in the Presta adapter. She doesn't have a new tube and my spare is too small. We decide to get on the boat, drop the bikes off, take the rear wheel off her bike and go to a bike store to get a new tube. The LBS at the race were absolutely no help and had no spare tubes. I felt so bad.
SOOO the problem is the LBS servicing the race is 45 minutes each way and we don't have that kind of time. We are calling everyone trying to find a closer bike store. We get off the boat and spont a phone book and start making calls. Luckily Wendis friend lives in Orlando and helped us find the closest one. Off to the store, get it fixed, back to Disney, back on the boat, walk back to transition and put said wheel back onto the bike...that was harder than the race..But crisis averted.
Sunday: Extremely rude drunk people in the hotel kept everyone up all night. They were still at it when Wendi and I left for transition at 4:30 am. I think I got 2 hours of sleep.
Got to transition and set up. Braided Wendis hair (pre-race ritual) Wandered around and tried to find our familys. Found them
None. We just wandered around and watched everyone.