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Tri Latta (Saturday) - TriathlonSprint
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Comments: Started in second wave, at 6:34am. Air temp at start was 68, made the water feel good. Caught a really good draft to start, too bad the guy was horrible at navigation. We ended up WAY off course, and probably would have had a better swim time if not for that... What would you do differently?: Worry less about keeping a good draft and focus more on my line. Upon review of past Latta race reports, I am certain that this race should have been about 17mins but I went off course...  Transition 1
Comments: Felt really light headed trying to put my bike shoes on... What would you do differently?: Make sure I have gels taped to bike, felt like I lost time messing with getting the Gel in my back pocket. This is a symptom of packing quickly two days ahead of time...normally would have had my gel tapped on (regardless of intent to use it or not)  Bike
Comments: Keep working on bike... felt like the fatigue of the past few days really caught up with me for a while... finally pushed thru it about the time the bike was done. What would you do differently?: Need to learn to dig deeper on the bike...think I am too easy on myself out there... Transition 2
Comments: Long way to run mat signaling run start.. What would you do differently?: Not much...other than being faster off the bike and running with the bike. Transitions are something I do not normally practice, maybe it's time to throw a few transition practices into the mix...nah...  Run
Comments: Mixed feelings about the new course... Overall good run, but need to work on my bricks. It took quite a bit of the run to feel my legs. What would you do differently?: Run harder Post race
Warm down: Beer, free beer and talking with good friends... What limited your ability to perform faster: Me. Event comments: Always a good time at Latta... Last updated: 2009-01-03 12:00 AM
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 2009-06-16 1:21 PM |
Veteran  152   North Carolina |  Subject: Tri Latta (Saturday) |
| 2009-06-16 1:33 PM in reply to: #2221754 |
Extreme Veteran 469 Western MA | Subject: RE: Tri Latta (Saturday) Nice race! I've been wanting to move to Charlotte, but your report has me rethinking it. Did you say it was almost 70 at 6:30 am? Is that normal?? |
| 2009-06-17 5:10 AM in reply to: #2221754 |
Extreme Veteran 537 Davidson, NC | Subject: RE: Tri Latta (Saturday) Well done, considering I probably wouldn't have been able even to drag myself to the race site after your week. I could say that about most of your weeks, too. And to brownlab, yeah, it's summer in the south. It frequently won't get below 70 at night. For the past week or so it's dropped to the upper 60s at night, but on race day (and today) there is literally 100% humidity in the morning. On the flip side, some years it doesn't snow, or at least doesn't stick. |
| 2009-06-24 7:14 AM in reply to: #2221754 |
Master 1741 Chapel Hill, NC | Subject: RE: Tri Latta (Saturday) Great job on your race, and esp after not much sleep. Sux about swimming off course because of the guy you were drafting off of. Keep up the good work - I don't know how you get any training in with full time job, travel and MBA school. You da man! |
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Umm... got a ~2hr nap after flying in from Texas, that's all you need for race day, right? Not to mention only 6hrs the night before, so I totaled 8hrs over two days. Seriously arriving home at 2am with a 4:30am departure for race start, leaves the mind feeling a little fuddled.
Before leaving for race site wolfed down a bagel and 1/2 a banana, drank some coffee.
Getting transition setup, talking with Tommy, Keith, Dave N, Dave B, Heigel, Scott, and Alice. Got in the water for a bit of a swim... just to wake myself up some...