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Comments: Pool went exactly as planned can out about the time I thought I would. Slow and steady wins the race for me in the water What would you do differently?: Maybe push a touch harder but my lap times stayed pretty consistent the whole time. When I signed up I was swimming 450 yards in 14 minutes but I really picked up in the last few weeks so my times where more like 10 mins  Transition 1
Comments: Put my shoes on in t1 not on the bike. had a hard time with my shirt Took about 15 seconds to get one. The bike shoes also gave me trouble with the tightening up What would you do differently?: Practice with the bike shoes, get a less sticky shirt  Bike
Comments: The Bike went great I never knew I could pedal that fast. I was flying by people left and right. The highlight was passing the guy in fully decked tribike with bars and disc wheels. Thank god I had a friend on the side who was counting loops for me or I would have gone a extra loop (got the hey dummy you already done 5 laps yell) What would you do differently?: drink a little less Felt a little sick in the run because I drank to much. Figure out a way to mark laps on my bike Transition 2
Comments: Had a little rough time here. While dismounting my bike a high speed I forgot to unclip on of my shoes. It made for an interesting dance with the bike and a bounce off the catch fence (Did stay on my feet however). Took a long time to thigh my shoes and they never felt quite right What would you do differently?: Invest in some quick tie laces of some kind  Run
Comments: Started out very rough and thought I was going pretty slowly, but quickly caught and passed a little pack of runners. That got my juices going in enough to kick it up a few notches. My family was there cheering me on at the last turn so I need to speed it up make them think I was actually doing good. My favorite moment of the run was when I was just about done with the run and I passed the guy I had counted laps for just starting his run. What would you do differently?: Work on my brick and push out of transition a little harder Post race
Warm down: hugged the kids and the wife, drank some water Don’t know I did the level I did. My swim and bike where both much faster than I have ever done in training and my 5k run was only a little more than a minute off my bets 5k ever. Nothing bad happened to me during the race so I am probably do for some in my next race Last updated: 2009-05-18 12:00 AM
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 2009-05-18 4:24 PM |
Extreme Veteran  660   |  Subject: Tower Triathlon |
| 2009-05-18 5:02 PM in reply to: #2159117 |
Expert 1121  Chicago | Subject: RE: Tower Triathlon Well done. Sounds like this was your first race (it was mine also). Kudos on hanging in there for the run; I mentioned in my race report - I just keeled over and died on the run . . . took everything I had to keep going. Good to read someone else's report on the same race. |
| 2009-05-18 10:10 PM in reply to: #2159117 |
Member 13 Northern Illinois | Subject: RE: Tower Triathlon Excellent first race! Perfect course for the first one. Good luck with the rest of your season! |
| 2009-05-19 7:50 AM in reply to: #2159117 |
| New user 7 | Subject: RE: Tower Triathlon Good job on the bike. Good thing you were able to get your pump and fill the tire in time. |
| 2009-05-20 1:35 PM in reply to: #2159772 |
Extreme Veteran 660 | Subject: RE: Tower Triathlon Now I am worried I can not do it again. The bad thing is that I did not have a glaring weakness I can really work on all 3 section ended up close to the same. I do have access to a bike that was not from 1983 for my next race so that should help. |
| 2009-05-20 1:39 PM in reply to: #2159223 |
Extreme Veteran 660 | Subject: RE: Tower Triathlon what really helped me mentally on the run was catching the pack of runners. I was about to give in and walk but i saw them about a block ahead I told myself after a catch them I can walk, but once I got there I started to feel a lot better and just kept going. the other thing was that since I was at the pool 4 waves early ,ost of the people I caught on the run I reconized from the pool so I would chat with for a little while as we ran |
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Was starting late so I stopped for a breakfast burrito on the way to the race. While setting up in the transition area I managed to let all of the air out for tire (had to run back to the car to get the Good tire pump). Since this was my first triathlon I decided to get there really early so I could watch how everything was done. I was in one of the last waves so I took advantage of the opportunity to use a spot in the transition area that one of the early wave have vacated (right near the bike out gate)
Running back to the car to get the tire pump when I only had 5 min to report to the pool