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Lake Macatawa Triathlon - TriathlonSprint
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Comments: Felt really good in the water. No complaints What would you do differently?: Nothing that I can think of.  Transition 1
Comments: Felt dizzy. sort of fell down in T1 after wet suit came off. What would you do differently?: not fall down on the cement.  Bike
Comments: Started off a little slow. This guy started cathing me, I could hear him yelling and screaming the whole way. He passed me, still yelling and screaming. He was having fun. I caught back up with him and said "alright buddy, you motivated me, now lets go." Well, I passed him, and never saw him again. Bill started 3 minutes behind me in the old guy wave, so I new he'd catch me at some point. I saw him about 1 minutes after the turn around (out and back course). My plan was to pick it up a little bit and stay with him for a few miles. That was a great idea, however, not possible. He was gone. What would you do differently?: I think if my Garmin was working, I could have been a little faster. I never new how fast I was going. Transition 2
 Run
Comments: This is where no Garmin killed me. I never had any idea of my pace. turns out I ran this 4.8 miles at my 25k pace. I should be able to do it much faster. I also didn't know how much farther to go to the finish. I could have picked it up quite a bit earlier and broken 2 hours. What would you do differently?: charge the garmin, run faster. 16 out of 21? Are you f'in kidding me? I think my knees must have gotten caught on my skirt. Post race
Last updated: 2009-05-20 12:00 AM
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 2009-06-14 5:02 PM |
Veteran  275   Grand Rapids, MI |  Subject: Lake Macatawa Triathlon |
| 2009-06-14 8:00 PM in reply to: #2216669 |
Champion 6973   marietta | Subject: RE: Lake Macatawa Triathlon Congrats Triathlete! Your splits are something I'll hit..in a 2 or 3 years. Great job! That was me driving the train. |
| 2009-06-15 11:10 AM in reply to: #2216669 |
Master 2491 | Subject: RE: Lake Macatawa Triathlon LOL on your last comment. You'll have room to improve for next year. |
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Overall Rank = 59/159
Age Group = 30 - 34
Age Group Rank = 11/21
Woke up at 4:30. Made some coffee and an English Muffin with PB. Put the sleeping little one in the car, and were off. On the road by 5:15. Got a little lost heading to the race. So first, we get stuck at a train crossing for about 5 minutes. The good news, there are 6 other cars with bikes on the back waiting for the train. I can follow them when we start moving.
The bad news, they are heading to the MS 150, a 150 mile bike ride, not the lake Mac tri. drove out of our way for about 5 minutes before I figured that out.
Was able to rack my bike next to Bill. That helped. Got the pre race jitters down to a minimum. Didn't do much warm up though.
Noticed my Garmin was dying. No batteries. Shit! No speed for bike or pace for run. That will be a problem.