White Lake Sprint Triathlon II
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White Lake Sprint Triathlon II - TriathlonSprint
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Comments: My first mass wave start with 44 people. Holy crap! I started at the middle front and oh yeah, I got ran over! Plus the water was very choppy with a headwind. As it turned out I was 6th on my category....felt like I was dead last. Swallowed lots of water but hydrated well so didn't need to drink much on the bike. I just could not get it going on the breathing, I felt labored and the water beat me around. What would you do differently?: Fight 20 pool ninjas to prepare! More OWS with people around me. More work on endurance swimming. Speed word. Technique. Transition 1
Comments: Slow up the ladder. Again I ran behind a slower person and should have run past them on the Pier. When I came out I was a little dizzy also. What would you do differently?: Focus on running past slower people in transition from the water. Bike
Comments: From the start I kicked it and never got passed by one person and I estimate I passed 40-50 people. Given some were on Mountain Bikes and that's not fair but as far as racers, I passed ~ 30. I stayed in the big ring and 2-3 rings up from the low ring all the way. I did spin a couple times to get my legs flushed. I tried to keep cadence > 80 and sped > 21 MPH. I had to hit the brakes once when I was pasing as there were 3 abreast sohad to I pass way on the outside and had an option to challange an F350 Ford. I chose to hit the brakes and pull off, then had to restart momentum. Coming in they squeeze in the cones to about 5 feet and I got behind 2 Mountain Bikers for the last 150 yards and it slowed me as well. What would you do differently?: More aero training, cadence training. I pretty much did as I expected. I just need to work on building more speed and endurance in lower gears. Transition 2
Comments: 12th out of 699 in T2 time OH YEAH BABY When I unclipped, I ran hard and was out of shoes and into Ascis ASAP, leaving T2 I did walk to set my watch. Oh, and I learned from last race. I bought a cheap watch to simply tell me my time on the run and left the Polar on the bike. What would you do differently?: Learn to get out of shoes on bike.....plus I walked 10 seconds in T2 Run
Comments: I was worried I pushed to hard on the bike and would bonk on the run but in fact I did my best 5k race so far. It may have been because it was flat or the fact I did not take my Polar to tell me speed, time, distance, pace , etc. A simple watch and I just ran. I got passed 2 x and passed about 20 people but I am aware my run time is still slow compared to my Age Groupers that carry the top. But alas, I am getting faster and will be back at a sub 6 mile pace when I lose the last 35 pounds. My friends that live at Waterford were on their porches cheering me on, I think they were still drinking from the night before! What would you do differently?: I just need to keep running and be faster. I could have pushed harder on the run and for some reason i just keep holding back. I am learning but I need to go all out and my mind holds me back. I just need to run more! Post race
Warm down: Walked around. Met my wife and my friend Paul, AKA my film crew. Stretched and had some of those Red Beans and Rice. What limited your ability to perform faster: I just need to do multi sport training as this was my 3 Triathlon and I am working my butt off literally on all 3 events plus weights and core traing! Event comments: I loved, ablosulety loved, the fact everyone gave a standing ovation to the 80 + y/o gentleman who finisshed! I was humbled by his accomplishment and honered to be there with him! everyone stayed to see all the awards and that was great! I finished 3rd and got a medal in Master Novice!!!! My First Hardware! Again, I was totally humbled and honored. Last updated: 2009-02-04 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 199/699
Age Group = Master Novice
Age Group Rank = 3/18
I stayed with my ECU college friends. They live by the lake in the Waterford S/D we ran through. Of course this was almost a bad idea as about 18 of us got together the night before and I had about 3 beers..it probably added 3/100 of a second to my time as it really was not going to help or hurt slow guys like me! But we need our carbs!
Up at 6, bagel PB and Banana, water and a Pepsi. Walked 1/2 mile to the Ta and set up and basically conversed.
Stretched, rode the bike about 3 miles doing intervals, working gears, high cadence.