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About to pack up and head down to Rock Hall.  It's a special USAT qualifier so the top 3rd in each AG qualify for AG nationals.  I'm figuring sub-2:30 will get me there, which is going to take one hell of a race from me.  Weather is looking good; wetsuit legal (was getting a little worried there for a bit...), around 70 degrees through the race.

Good luck to everyone else racing...let's bring home some hardware!!!  :-)

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk Wow Nancy - not having a great week! Hope your "face" feels better soon and you get your bike back faster than anticipated. Maybe go over to ST and bug the Felt guy over there BTW what is chemotherapy cream? Although I guess I can imagine! YIKES! Good luck to all the racers this weekend!! So while we're talking about nerves....does anyone get emotional at the start or end of an event? I do. And my husband experienced this for the first time at the starting line of the VT marathon last weekend. It's more like the anticipation and excitement gets to me and all of a sudden I'm all choked up - which is recoverable if it's a bike race or running race but this is what gets me in the water. If you can't breathe, you can't swim. THIS is what I need to overcome or at least be able to hold it off until I get out of the water and can coast on the bike for a few miles. Took the day off yesterday to deface the pavement and mark it for the bikeMS ride on Sunday. It's not as much fun as it sounds But it's done - and the weather was PHENOMENAL!!! TGIF!

I have not had that problem before.  Can you do some visualization work regarding the start of the race leading up to the event?  and then visualize how you will handle it if you get emotional?  key phrase?  10 deep breathes? I do something like this before every race either to combat my "freaking out" in OW or just to prepare myself for the pain to come!

Good luck racing peeps!

Choked up as in tearful or can't get a breath? Exactly what are the physical and mental feelings that you have before a race?

I used to have a lot of problems with breathing during the mass start of OWS. It took a long time to figure out what the problem was as I'm not afraid of water, snakes, grass, people hitting me etc.,  At the start of a race when the gun went off my HR would sky rocket and I couldn't get it down then my breathing would be off. Which would start a panic type cycle in the water. To combat this problem I try to swim before the race or do some sort of warm up to get my heart rate up . Then it isn't such a shock to my system once the race starts.

I still have some unresolved breathing/asthma issues during races that need to be addressed. At Boulder 70.3 during the swim it felt like I couldn't breathe. The altitude and my asthma made it almost impossible to swim. I was hanging onto kayaks and came close to DNFing. Last weekend at the race it also felt like I couldn't breathe during the run portion. Which is something that I've got to get taken care of ASAP.

Good luck tomorrow!  Stay Loose and Kick Tail

Got a good swim interval workout for me in tonight.   50's and 100's.   Giving I'm still in SERIOUS rebuilding mode, my 1:01/50 yds 50's and 2:07/100 yds 100's are pretty good numbers for me to put up.  Hoping to increase workout distance a bit in the next week.   Kicking up the run as well, so I'm really pleased with the results of my work this week.

Tomorrow =  Early AM bike ride and then in the afternoon, going to a buddies to set up the cadence meter etc on my bike and will do a short ride after that.   That will allow me to meet ALL of my training goals for May.   Haven't done that for a long time, so I'm pleased.

Got me a solid ride in this morning.   Pace was not super fast, but I did feel really good, and handled the distance (19 miles) well.  I know that's short, but as all of you know still in a big rebuild mode.  Strength is starting to come back.   I'm looking forward to being able to talk more about getting ready for a HIM or Half Mary again, and less about surviving a 5k or sprint tri. 

Thanks for all your support team!

Solid race for me this morning with a 3 minute improvement over last year. Strongest field I have ever seen at this race. Ended up 13th overall and 2nd in AG. Lots of fast 50-54 guys there as we placed 4 in the top 15.  No splits posted yet. Hot and humid but a fun morning.

Hope everyone racing is thrashing it out there! 

2:38:01 yesterday, splits of 31:00, 1:09:00, and 50:07 with about 5 minutes of transition thrown in.  I'll do a full RR soon,  but I'm very happy with my overall results.  Pretty strong field at the upper MOP; tons of racers in the 2:20s.  I missed AGN by about 4 minutes; it would have taken an absolutely flawless race to even sniff that.  Perfect weather and a very well run race, plus we stayed at a B&B 100 yards from transition which was awesome.

I finished MOP in the swim (19/30), T1 (17/30), bike (14/30), T2 (12/30), AND the run (13/30).  At least I'm consistently mediocre!!  :-)

Nice race, Randy!

Congratulations to Mike, Randy and Jason. Lots of fast results this weekend.

I placed 3 in my AG at a sprint triathlon. I was 4 min off 1st place in my AG on the swim. I've got to get the swim times down to a reasonable time.  Had to stop during the bike because the helmet sticker blew off and was stuck to my front tire, I was afraid it was going to get stuck in the brakes and cause an accident. Still ended up with 2nd fastest bike in my AG. Run was a real struggle as I couldn't breathe and get my HR down. I've come to the conclusion that something is medically wrong here. I'm going to go to the doctor as soon as possible. Ended up with 3rd in AG on run but it was a real struggle. I came close to going to medical after the race.

And I had the FASTEST Transition times in my AG   T1- 1:20 and T2- :48

Blanda 2.5 miles is a long way to swim without a wetsuit!! What amazing progress you've made over the last few years!! Way to go girl!!!