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Comments: My buoy rounding was perfect on the line - so close I actually hit the rope of couple of them. Only put average for navigation cos I was a bit zig zaggy on the long triangle side. First short side I managed to draft a bit but after then was on my own - person I was drafting off sped up and I was just passing some prior waves caps. Last side of triangle was quite choppy. I love waves so I was hoping that was to my advantage. I just kept telling myself "long and strong" so felt good What would you do differently?: Train more? This was my first OWS of the year and I enjoyed it Transition 1
Comments: 7/13 ag, 30/50 female All went quite smoothly. I sat down to put socks on, had a gel and water and was off. My clipping in on the bike is normally terrible but it started off on a slight downhill that I could coast and clip in so that went well. What would you do differently?: run faster to transition area Bike
Comments: I remember thinking when I was out there "This is fun". The first part of the course the road was awful but I just rode the bumps and hoped for the best. I was with a couple of people that we just kept passing each other so that was tough as you have to put a bit of effort into getting by each time. The long hill was OK and I LOVED the downhill coming back. I don't think I coasted any of it, just pedalled all the way down Wheeeeeeee. What would you do differently?: Get a lighter bike? Train more. Push harder. Transition 2
Comments: 4/13 ag, 23/50 female Another gel and off I went Run
Comments: Oh boy this was brutal and is my weakness, running and doubly, running in heat. I just told myself to keep jogging along, one foot in front of the other to the turnaround and then see what I could do on the way back. The answer was nothing! It seemed endless. Every aid station I walked to drink some, put some ice on my head and down my top. By mile 5 I still was just plodding and ended up walking for a couple of times for a minute or so. It was just so hot. Of course I had to jog the last bit but I was never so glad to see a finish line. What would you do differently?: Jeez where do I start? This is what slows me down amongst my peers. People pass me in this more than any other part. I really need to work on improving my "easy speed" Post race
Warm down: I like to bend over and put my hands on my knees after the finish line to recover. The volunteers didn't like that and I had one pouring water over me and the other making me take sips and asking if I was OK. That was nice. They said at least I was sweating cos a fair few had gone to the clammy stage which of course is getting near danger on the heat exhaustion scale. I went and sat in the lake for a while and watched the kids race. We had to empty transition for oncoming storm, then went for food and results so there wasn't much "hanging around" time at all. Good to see BT friends and others What limited your ability to perform faster: Not having done enough training in the heat. Event comments: Score this do a great job of organising this. At one point a long queue was forming for body marking so they rustled up another couple of people. Security good in transition (match your number to your bike). Food was in Keuka College cafeteria so was a bit more than the normal spread. The only thing really against this race is the poor road conditions on the 54A Last updated: 2007-12-01 12:00 AM
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90F / 32C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 91/225
Age Group = F40-44
Age Group Rank = 4/13
Overall winner was in my age group so I got 3rd in the age group awards
Up at 4.30am to stuff some breakfast down, prise my eyes open and get over to ridgelake's by 5am.
Easy drive down, arrived in plenty of time to register etc - had a banana and 30min prior to start a gu (choc mint - yum!)
Got in and swam around for 5mins. Water was lovely. Thank goodness for the heatwave warming it up a bit. Didn't like the squishy mud just off shore so made sure I stood on the pebbles nearer the land
My watch decided to break and I found my spare timing chip ankle thingy dangling off my wetsuit to I hid them both under a step by the jetty.