SBR Utopia Season II - OPEN (Page 37)

Update on me, and it is is not good since I am writing it - hah.

First DNF - experienced these crazy lower back spasms through the whole swim, then in T1 mishandled my bike a bit. Nothing out of the ordinary, really: I was running with my bike and had to kinda jump from one side of the back wheel to the other in the crowd and just as soon as I did that it felt like someone jabbed in the low back with a knife. Rolled on out on the course, but the first little climb out of town was pretty tweaky in my lower back. The only upside was that it was the most comfortable in the aerobars - I couldnt sit up on the horns. When I stopped a couple of times to try an stretch out I it was difficult to stand up straight, and when I would finally get upright then I couldn't bend back over. Made it up the climbs and back into town, but it was just getting worse and worse and I knew there was no way I could run, so rolled into T2 and handed in my chip. If you ever want to DNF, then I highly reccomend you do it early - there was no lines and no waiting in the Med tent, and the medical crew spent about 45 minutes with me. Docs said it looks like I have a locked SI joint, whatever that is. I guess my own doc is going to be busy with me this week.... Ah, well, so it goes.

Other than my own personal issues, the rolling start is super - I lined up right at 1:05 and was in the water in about a minute-and-a-half. The weather is actually OK - temp is currently about 70 degrees, and it was raining pretty steady for the Keene descent, but fairly dry after that - drizzling again when I went in the med tent, but it looks like it has stopped now. Thunderstorms may be rolling in in an hour or two and for the rest of the day/into the evening though.

Quick shower then out to cheer for Ms. TankBoy, James, and the rest of the BT crew.

James - 1:01:29
Rusty - 1:08:23

Looking at the video coming out of T1 it looks like it might be cool and damp? 

Update on me, and it is is not good since I am writing it - hah.

Update on me, and it is is not good since I am writing it - hah.

First DNF - experienced these crazy lower back spasms through the whole swim, then in T1 mishandled my bike a bit. Nothing out of the ordinary, really: I was running with my bike and had to kinda jump from one side of the back wheel to the other in the crowd and just as soon as I did that it felt like someone jabbed in the low back with a knife. Rolled on out on the course, but the first little climb out of town was pretty tweaky in my lower back. The only upside was that it was the most comfortable in the aerobars - I couldnt sit up on the horns. When I stopped a couple of times to try an stretch out I it was difficult to stand up straight, and when I would finally get upright then I couldn't bend back over. Made it up the climbs and back into town, but it was just getting worse and worse and I knew there was no way I could run, so rolled into T2 and handed in my chip. If you ever want to DNF, then I highly reccomend you do it early - there was no lines and no waiting in the Med tent, and the medical crew spent about 45 minutes with me. Docs said it looks like I have a locked SI joint, whatever that is. I guess my own doc is going to be busy with me this week.... Ah, well, so it goes.

Other than my own personal issues, the rolling start is super - I lined up right at 1:05 and was in the water in about a minute-and-a-half. The weather is actually OK - temp is currently about 70 degrees, and it was raining pretty steady for the Keene descent, but fairly dry after that - drizzling again when I went in the med tent, but it looks like it has stopped now. Thunderstorms may be rolling in in an hour or two and for the rest of the day/into the evening though.

Quick shower then out to cheer for Ms. TankBoy, James, and the rest of the BT crew.

Update on me, and it is is not good since I am writing it - hah.

First DNF - experienced these crazy lower back spasms through the whole swim, then in T1 mishandled my bike a bit. Nothing out of the ordinary, really: I was running with my bike and had to kinda jump from one side of the back wheel to the other in the crowd and just as soon as I did that it felt like someone jabbed in the low back with a knife. Rolled on out on the course, but the first little climb out of town was pretty tweaky in my lower back. The only upside was that it was the most comfortable in the aerobars - I couldnt sit up on the horns. When I stopped a couple of times to try an stretch out I it was difficult to stand up straight, and when I would finally get upright then I couldn't bend back over. Made it up the climbs and back into town, but it was just getting worse and worse and I knew there was no way I could run, so rolled into T2 and handed in my chip. If you ever want to DNF, then I highly reccomend you do it early - there was no lines and no waiting in the Med tent, and the medical crew spent about 45 minutes with me. Docs said it looks like I have a locked SI joint, whatever that is. I guess my own doc is going to be busy with me this week.... Ah, well, so it goes.

Other than my own personal issues, the rolling start is super - I lined up right at 1:05 and was in the water in about a minute-and-a-half. The weather is actually OK - temp is currently about 70 degrees, and it was raining pretty steady for the Keene descent, but fairly dry after that - drizzling again when I went in the med tent, but it looks like it has stopped now. Thunderstorms may be rolling in in an hour or two and for the rest of the day/into the evening though.

Quick shower then out to cheer for Ms. TankBoy, James, and the rest of the BT crew.

so signed up for a race on Sept 1st, called the Jerome Hill Climb.  Starts at 4891ft and ends at 5967ft over 4.5 miles.  Looks like a nice steady climb.  Should be fun.  In that painful sort of way.

Now off to sign up for the Sedona Half marathon in Feb.  I have another race in mind for Sept but I can sign up last minute for that one.  It's also a HM, but a trail run

Whoa! That sounds. Ummm. Nuts.  Glad you are ok.  Seems like an extreme way to get a new bike but sounds like you enjoyed yourself. 

I got not just full on permission to buy a new bike, but Tina is over there looking online for which bike I should buy.  So it was all totally worth it for me.  lol  I've always said, it's not really a mountain bike ride until there's a little blood...

We just did a set this morning that was 8x200m alternating swim and pull -- my swim and pull times were literally exactly the same as one another.  It makes sense to me that one would be faster pulling than swimming, so what you're seeing makes logical sense to me.  I still have no idea how I'm so bad at pulling (that said, I've improved quite a lot, which just tells you how bad I used to be!).

I do think those who get a good advantage pulling tend to get a good advantage with the wetsuit, so hopefully it'll work out the same for you.