Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED (Page 100)

Hey everyone, just a quick post and I will do my log tomorrow.  After the race me and the family drove up to Tuscaloosa Al which is a 3.5 hour drive to watch the University of Alabama play TN in a baseball game. We lost 0-1.  Then we drove to Birmingham which is about 1 hour away from Tuscaloosa. About to go to bed because we are going to the zoo tomorrow and then back home. Busy weekend, but thats normall.

Ok the race, i had a blast, even though it was hard.  My goal was to finish in 2 hours and I finished in 2 hours 14 min.  Swim was really bad, we swam out past the wave breaks and then swam along the coast line and then back in. The waves and current was horrible, I was tired before I even hit the 1st bouy, so my swim along the coast line was not good.  I couldnt get my breath so I was not really able to swim properly.. THe swim consisted of freestyle along with the back stroke, side sroke and even the drowning puppy paddle. But I finished and my legs took a beating, they were like jello coming out of the water.  Used the legs way to much.  Need to do open water swimming more often. 

The bike was also murder.  Storng strong head wind, normally I bike around 16-18mph but for the 8 miles out it avg between 11-14mph, coming back I avg around 22-23mph.

Run, ok remember the head wind I was talking about, well 2 miles was in the wind and it was like I was not even running.  I did a lot of run 2 min, walk 3 min. 

But the postive news, I finished and loved it even though it kicked my butt.

Swim was 400 yards,  Bike 17 miles and run 4 miles.  I raced in In the clyesdale group, there was a total of 31 in the group and I finished 28 out of 31 in the total group and 9 out of 9 in the clyesdale age group.    I think I would have done better if I had that Hot Pink cap and not a green one.  I need to work on my open water swim which next week Im going to a free open water clinic for triathlons, hope this helps.  Also I need to work on the running.  Last month I was off 3 weeks due to shin splints and I guess a pulled groin.  When I was running between my inside thigh would hurt really bad, today it started back but I had to fight through it.  It only hurts when I run and not all the time. Hummmm.  OK well gotta go to bed, I will do my log tomm night when I get back home.

GEORGE!  Awesome job in not too nice conditions!  CONGRATS on finishing your event!!!!

So I have bit the bullet and signed up for the Mossman sprint July 10th to take the place of the Phili womens sprint.  I have my first event coming up on April 30th, a duathlon event in New Paltz.  A little nervous as my run training has not been where it needs to be.  Hope to get in some runs while on my business trip.

Again GEORGE GREAT JOB!!!

Alex 

Goerge,

What a great job.  I think you can be very proud.  YOU DID IT!! And it pretty obnoxious conditions.  You did not miss your time by much. The next one will feel like your going downhill the whole way.  Well maybe not.  I guess they are all different.  But you are on your way.  Congratulations.

Ellen

King Tut tri done, I still don't know why it is called that. Horrible swim....never got my breathing right, ended up on my back allot, I thought I was last out of the water but my wife said I wasn't. I slipped and fell on something on the ramp coming out of the water just as the photographer got my picture Water temp was 68 degrees.

I don't have my time yet, my bike was acceptable I think about 40 minutes but cold, run was great, for me, 26:22. Transitions went well even though my toes were numb from being cold, wetsuit came off fine, maybe hung up on my timing chip a second but not an issue. I passed several riders a number from my age group on the ride, the only riders that passed me were pretty serious looking athletes on expensive bikes and they passed me definitively. I passed many more from my ag on the run.

I saw a guy from the pool I train at, asked how it went, he said how is that possible "all you do is swim" ..I thought all I did is run!

I'm happy with my run! Ok with my ride, irritated and shocked by the swim. So it's more time in the water and if I can afford it some coaching.

I'm guessing total time 1hr 20..maybe 1:30 but I could be way off.

Results are up:

Swim 15:13 3:03/100 (big gap between the timing mat and water btw)

T1 1:45 long uphill run from the lake to the bikes -probably 100 meters on concrete

Bike 39:04 18.4 mph avg

T2 1:00

Run 26:23 8:31 pace

Total: 1:23:27.4

AG 14/20 overall 137th/206

Only a 15 minute swim, I swear it felt like an hour, especially with my clunky back stroke and sculling

Jeff,

I'm impressed. I know what you mean about the swim. I have done 4 of these and even though in training I swim for about an hour, in an actual event it feels like it will never end.  I think part of it it being disoriented since there is no line to follow.  I swim to the left and then have to make a correction.  I always have a hard time trying to find the next buoy (The bright orange thing that I should be able to find pretty easily).  My goggles are always fogged up.  I need to try some of Steve's suggestions on anti-fog stuff.  Anyway, you did great.

Ellen

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

Here are the final results

Swim 400 yards - 16:25 - Actual swim was 14:26 but it took 2 min to get from the water up the beach to the T1.

T1 - 4:01min - Could have been better, but had to rest after the swim.

Bike 16.2 miles - 59.24, avg speed out 11-13mph, coming back 21-22mph total avg 16mph

T2 - 2:15min - Good trans maybe will start trying running sockless since I bike sockless.  It took a little time to get socks on my feet.

Run - 4miles - 52:46 -

Total time 2:14:48   - Happy with time considering the wind and swim. 

Steve, yes if you could please give me some detail on the swim.  Did not have a wet suit.  Swim out to bouy before cutting down the shore for the swim was really tough fighting the waves and current.  Before I got to the 1st bouy I was out of breath so I could not keep my head in the water for proper swim. Nutrition I felt was good, jut the swim and biking and running in the head wind was tough.  I did not try what you suggested on the bike to prepare for the run since I have not tried it before the race, but I do plan to do it now.

Thanks Sarah, I hope so, I have a new sense of purpose regarding swimming now

George,

Way to go.  A finished triathlon is a good triathlon, well done!

Jeff,

Well done, great job on the run.

When I arrived it was in the high 40's maybe 50ish at race start 51-52. We jumped off a dock and swam to a start line marked by two small buoys. The deep water start was new for me also.

I started on the right based on veering left thinking I would veer into the crowd and auto-correct. The pack became irrelevant  though. I was last in my wave but we had caught and passed some swimmers from the previous wave so I was not last out of the water.

I came out near one other guy in my AG, we swapped leads a few times on the bike, I passed him and saw him roll up to his rack in T2-he said something to me-maybe conversational, maybe competitive I'm not sure but apparently I dropped him on the run.

Do differently:

more proactively get a warm up swim

gut it out a bit longer before I worry about sighting-the kayaks were actually doing a good job keeping us on course but my pre-occupation with this plus foggy goggles messed with me. It is possible I might have calmed down and found a grove-especially now that I see it really was only 15 minutes-my time perspective was really messed up!

More OWS obviously and more time in deep water adjusting to changing direction, starting/stopping etc

At the pool-"turns on the T" instead of at the wall-shorter est intervals, more long sets.

I liked my transitions-I took to heart things I had read about this and my wife who watches these things made comments on other peoples transitions at this and other races that was enlightening-both good and bad-including the girl who stopped and waited for a friend to catch up so they could ride together-this same friend dropped her bike right on the roadway out side of the TA because she had "forgot something" and ran back to get it. For the life of me I don't know what she could have forgot for a 12 mile ride?

Beyond that just swim-my original idea of dropping 1 weekday swim seem ill-advised now, maybe I'll try to get 4x week.