20th Annual Athens YMCA Triathlon
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20th Annual Athens YMCA Triathlon - TriathlonSprint
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Swim
Comments: Way too many people not seeding themselves properly. Clogged everything up and made things really hard to get around in. Pool was good, though. Transition 1
Comments: spent too much time trying to make decisions on what to put on - long sleeve shirt or just singlet . . . then put shirt on backwards . . . couldn't decide on bike gloves or not What would you do differently?: Know for certain what I was going to wear - morning started out really cool, but warmed up fairly quickly - need to make that decision right about the time they close transition area. Bike
Comments: Bike was pretty good. I could have gone a bit harder. The wind was terrible - made things really challenging, especially on the way in. What would you do differently?: Stay more in aero. Eat a bar as soon as I got on the bike. Transition 2
Comments: Again, too much indecision - not sure what to do about shirt since it had warmed up even more. What would you do differently?: Know what I was going to do clothing-wise. Have a water bottle in transition area I could drink from (not just on the bike). Run
Comments: run was good. kind of parched when I got started - got pretty dehydrated before I got to the water station at the turnaround. What would you do differently?: drink more. Post race
Warm down: not very good. stood around too long. didn't get a drink soon enough. had a half orange, then some accelerade. Stretched a little bit after that. What limited your ability to perform faster: Improper hydration - needed more water before and during the race. Nutrition - ate before getting transition area set up. Then waited almost 3 hours before race got started. Was feeling pretty depleted through most of the race - but was afraid to eat when I got hungry on the bike for fear of stomach problem on the run. Event comments: Good race. good course. good people. nice way to start the season. Last updated: 2005-03-06 12:00 AM
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2005-03-13 2:41 PM |
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2005-03-13 4:14 PM in reply to: #129189 |
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United States
YMCA of Henderson County
65F / 18C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 176/428
Age Group = Clydesdale
Age Group Rank = 15/32
Got to race at 6:30 - as soon as transition opened up. Set up area - got the end of a rack which made transition area a little bit easier to get in and out of.
At a bagel with peanut butter at 6:30, a banana at 6:45 and drank 22 oz of accelerade between 7 and 7:30.
Had too much time between arrival and race start time (9:00).
Swam a half dozen laps just before the swim started.
Walked about 2 miles to loosen up.