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Comments: Swim was an absolute dogfight. Anything was uf for grabs on this one. I felt terrible on the swim and got out feeling dead. There was a long run from the beach to transition which added probably 30"-60" to everyones time. What would you do differently?: Need more swim training.  Transition 1
Comments: T1 wasn't very good. Battled with right leg of wetsuit. Fiddled around getting Garmin up and synched - then forgot to push start until about 1 km into the bike! Bike mount bad - had a brain freeze and tried to mount before the line instead of after, which meant stopping getting off, walking across and then re-do. Tens of seconds wasted there. Was 79 overall after T1. My T1 effort was 88th overall (best was 1'33") What would you do differently?: Have shoes clipped into bike ready to go and learn to do a running mount.  Bike
Comments: Had a great bike. Was pretty comfortable the whole way through and at some spots consciously tapped off the gas in fear of imploding on the run. After the end of the bike I was 37th overall (no data for just age-group) so made up 49 places during the bike leg. What would you do differently?: With more confidence in my running, I can go faster on the bike. Otherwise a great ride. Transition 2
Comments: Terrible transition. My T1 was 197th overall...ouch (best was 45") Bad dismount from bike. Bike fell over during racking. Fidled with Garmin again to reset. With practise I bet I could get 45"-60" off this effort. What would you do differently?: Work on bike dismount.  Run
Comments: Was happy with the run splits. Couldn't have asked for more than 4'24" per km. Had just enough at the end to come home, but not much left in the tank. What would you do differently?: More training on my running, can improve this I think. For this race - not much to do differently. Post race
Warm down: Chatted with wife and kids What limited your ability to perform faster: Training. Event comments: Awesome race. Great organization. PLenty of volunteers and supporters. Great race-vibe. Recommended for anyone wanting to do a sprint or half in vancouver. Last updated: 2009-05-16 12:00 AM
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 2009-07-13 5:26 PM |
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| 2009-07-14 12:49 PM in reply to: #2282328 |
New user 18 North Van | Subject: RE: Subaru Vancouver International Triathlon Congrats on a great race, love reading other BTers race reports.... Nice bike split. Based on your split times we must have been within a couple of seconds of each other for the entire race  Agreed about the swim, I found it absolutely awful, total washing machine for me as well, lots of room for improvement there. |
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Subaru West Coast Triathlon Series
23C / 73F
Sunny
Overall Rank = 38(m)/138(m)
Age Group = 30-39
Age Group Rank = 11/54
Saturday - Mandatory bike drop-off plus pre-race meeting.
Sunday - Got up at 4:30. Had half a baggle with peanut butter and 1 banana at 5 am. Depart at 5:30 with Si and was at race venue for body marking and chip pick-up at about 6 am. Set up transition area until about 6:15. Drank a smoothy over about 30 min stretch. Got kicked out transition area at 6:45 to 7:15 for half iron wave. Went to portapotty. Got into wetsuit at 7:30, ate a Vanilla GU.
Walk to the beach for swim and dove in - water cool.