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Festival Triathlon Esprit de Montreal - Sprint
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Comments: Not a bad swim. I hesitated and changed my mind 20 times about wearing the wetsuit since I normally struggle to get it off. But I think I made the right call. I made some stupid mistakes on the swim, like try to put my feet down 10 feet from the end and I couldn't touch bottom. Or rounding the buoys way to wide. What would you do differently?: Be a little smarter, but overall I am happy. I did a decent time and didn't kill myself doing it, which allowed me to concentrate on my weakest leg, the bike.  Transition 1
Comments: I was really scared of this part. I struggled big time in the past and this time the wetsuit came off ok. I managed to follow 2 other guys in and out of T1. In the past, T1 was exhausting. This time it was fine. What would you do differently?: Hustle a little more. I took it easy in the T1 zone. But this may not be a bad thing.  Bike
Comments: Good biking for me. Biking is my weakest leg so I was happy with this pace. What would you do differently?: I never really went into aero position. I need to force myself. I need to have my bike tuned, it was making weird noises and the gears would change by themselves. Transition 2
Comments: Pretty good transition, legs felt weird, but that's normal What would you do differently?: Not much. Maybe hustle a little more  Run
Comments: I was cramping up and was afraid not to finish so I backed off a little What would you do differently?: Pushed harder on the last 1km Post race
Warm down: None, just walked around What limited your ability to perform faster: I was happy overall. Based on my post race crash at the Oly I had done previously I was nervous pushing it. But this was my first season, 4th race and 5th month on a bike so I'll take the time, placing and be happy with my season. This is a fast course. I would say it doesn't get much faster than here. Please come and visit us here in Montreal. Event comments: Kudos to the organizers, and the other traithletes were great. Very civile, very nice, even did some chit chat on the bike and run. Last updated: 2009-09-10 12:00 AM
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 2009-09-13 1:59 PM |
Extreme Veteran  5722   |  Subject: Festival Triathlon Esprit de Montreal - Sprint |
| 2009-09-13 4:29 PM in reply to: #2403297 |
Elite 3595    Quebec, Canada | Subject: RE: Festival Triathlon Esprit de Montreal - Sprint |
| 2009-09-13 5:13 PM in reply to: #2403489 |
Extreme Veteran 5722 | Subject: RE: Festival Triathlon Esprit de Montreal - Sprint rlejeune - 2009-09-13 4:29 PM Good job  I wish my weakest leg could be as fast as your 39km/h bike speed  ha !! I went through the GPS data and corrected my post. The bike distance for the Sprint was 18km and not the full 20. I checked my avg speed on my cateye and I was always 35.1 ish, which lines up pretty well. I am still happy. Had it been a full 20 I probably would have come in at around 1:12 which for me would have been great. We should do a relay one day. I'll swim, you can bike and I'm sure we can find someone to run with us. |
| 2009-09-13 6:51 PM in reply to: #2403568 |
| New user 3 | Subject: RE: Festival Triathlon Esprit de Montreal - Sprint Congratulations guys, I came down to watch yesterday and just wished I was taking part.. next year for sure.. |
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Age Group = 45-49
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4th race of my first year. 3rd Sprint, 1 Oly.
My previous sprint was disappointing so I wanted to do well. My goal was under 1:15.
I slept well the night before, had an early AM breakfast (omelette), packed my stuff and off I went.
Got there too early (as usual) because I was unsure how parking would be. But it's a nice site, nice kiosks, so I just hung around and watch other events, watched people in the transition area.
2 hours before the race, ate some peanuts, 1 hour before some more peanuts.
None. For the last month I have been going to the pool, not warm up and just try to do a 400 to 750m pace swim. This helped me pace the swim