Cleveland Triathlon - Sprint Distance
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Cleveland Triathlon - Sprint Distance - TriathlonSprint
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Comments: This sprint swim was worse than all my olympic swims-even St.A's. My conclusions are that: 1 - I was overly confident. I usually only do Olys so I thought this would be easy. 2 - Due to the nature of the start, I couldn't defog my goggles per the usual routing of spitting, rubbing, wading in for the start while rinsing. There was too much distance between the boat deck and the water to dip my goggles into. Next time I know to bring my own water to rinse my goggles before the start. SO THE ENTIRE SWIM WAS WITH FOGGED-UP GOGGLES. Combined with the sun-rise and I was blind most of the time. 3 - The pack felt 'narrow'. I can't explain it but when I did get into a good rythm I would 'just' pass people but then do to limited sighting and looking around, I got swum over...There seemed to be no 'outside' as someone else was always on the 'outside'. Usually I'm the slowest so this is not a problem...but my pace is getting better so I'm runnning into people now. What would you do differently?: Chemical defogging for goggles or just a water bottle rinse. Transition 1
Comments: Took my time. Didn't make a fool of myself getting into the new pedals by falling down. People were breathing down my back, it was a narrow bike chute and I didn't fall-got right up to speed. What would you do differently?: Not much. Bike
Comments: Excellant course. No cars. I did not do the full course I don't think, after I was done I figured out I took a wrong turn into transition before I should have. I did ask a volunteer though. Transition 2
Comments: Slow as usual Run
Comments: I did not like the run course. Most of the road was under construction and they striped the asphalt off leaving a lot of uneven ridges to run on. Post race
Warm down: A lot of walking. Last updated: 2006-07-21 12:00 AM
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2008-06-02 1:13 PM |
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United States
Pacific Sports Event Management
75F / 24C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 154/259
Age Group = 30-34
Age Group Rank = 20/29
Get as little sleep as possible. I went to bed at 12:30, went to sleep at 3am and woke up at 4am.
Had the usual oatmeal and morning mocha. The drive to Cleveland was about 45minutes. I was among the first to arrive.
Not much. Just paced and watched Lake Erie and the sun come up over the skyline.