Tribal Open Water Swim
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Comments: Beautiful morning for the race slightly overcast which helped keep the temp down and also helped with being able to actually see the bouys. The lake was really smooth barely any waves and the water was pretty clear. I really felt bouyant in the water today body postitioning felt really good. Most difficulty came with the last 800m my mouth began to get really sticky which made it difficult to breathe for a bit then I managed to inhale a lung full of water. At first I tried to swim through it but realized I couldn't breath and was simply taking on more water...so this is what drowning feels like...so I stopped for a moment hacked up a lung and continued to push through it. Was a bit nervous after that and tried to be more careful about coming up for air. Overall much better swim than the first in the series. Shaved 2 minutes and 11 seconds off of my time from the last race and didn't feel like I was battling the whole time. Stayed more mentally strong. What would you do differently?: Maybe push a bit harder. I'm never sure how fast to start off and feels like everyone just zooms out and I spend the rest of the race trying to catch them. Maybe remember that I don't have to worry about biking or swimming afterwards I think that will really help me to give it everything I got. Post race
Warm down: walk up the hill to my bag...refueled with a mini muffin some pretzels and wheat thins and water What limited your ability to perform faster: Taking on the water kind of shok me up a bit and slowed me down for a litle while before I convinced myself that the only way I was going to drown was if my heart stopped. Last updated: 2009-06-03 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 44/51
Age Group = 25-29
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Had a peice of wheat toast with peanut butter and a banana. About an hour befor ethe race had a half bag of sports beans 30 minutes before had the other half.
Swim to the start then tred water