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What would you do differently?: I think that since I came into this after 6 weeks off from and injury I did well. Better conditioning should have shaved at least 5 to 6 minutes off my time. My shoulder did not hurt nearly as badly as expected. I was happy withthe swim.  Transition 1
Comments: This trasition really irritated me, same slowness with getting my wetsuit off. Why doesn't someone make a wetsuit with zipper at the calf so you can get it off easier. I am wondering if there is a trick to it that the public hasn't forced a new design. Next issue and a big one. The jackass who setup next to me pinned my bike to the rack it took severalk attempts to get my bike out of there. Not good. What would you do differently?: Remove wetsuit better and know about jackasses who rack there bike on top of mine.  Bike
Comments: This part of the course made me the most nervous. I had flatted and crashed in the last two Olympic Races I had tried to finish. I was soo excited to gt into the transition. The killer part was that I was almost cut of and sent into a curb by a women who lost control of her bike at the turn to ride down the ramp into transition. I swear someone would have to bail me out of jail if I rode 26 miles and was out in the wall at the last 50 yds. I was nice though as I did not crash and talked her down the ramp into transition. What would you do differently?: This wasan issue of conditioning again. I have done the distance many time before. I will put a frame bottle cage for this race. I am tired of tyhe bottles lauching and spending time trying to keep my bottles from flying out. Transition 2
Comments: Not bad, had a little trouble getting my shoes on and was not smooth in transition. What would you do differently?: Have a better plan, seems I was a bit out of sorts.  Run
Comments: I always place low in the running section. It is my biggest opportunity for time. I came out of transition feeling pretty bad after the ride. I knew I was not going to be able to run fast. I decided again that finishing was the most important and focused on not walking. That was the key as my head screamed for me to walk, I refused and plugged away. I was praying for mile markers that were NOT coming fast enough. I was passed by a ton of people on the run and just let them go. What would you do differently?: Bein better shape for the race and not crash my bikein Minnesota Post race
Warm down: Eat at the Picnic after the race and thn sit with the family under a noice tree in Grant park. What limited your ability to perform faster: Bike crash and the 6 week layoff before the race, Last updated: 2009-08-31 12:00 AM
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 2009-08-31 2:01 PM |
Expert  864    Lake in the Hills |  Subject: Chicago Triathlon - Olympic Distance |
| 2009-08-31 2:49 PM in reply to: #2380861 |
Veteran 223 Ft. Wayne, IN | Subject: RE: Chicago Triathlon - Olympic Distance Sorry to hear about your bike problems the last few races, good to get through and get it done. |
| 2009-08-31 2:51 PM in reply to: #2380861 |
Master 1376 Chicago | Subject: RE: Chicago Triathlon - Olympic Distance Great job on finishing the race. It had to be tough out there coming back from the crash. Way to fight through it. |
| 2009-08-31 6:39 PM in reply to: #2380861 |
Master 1609 Gold Coast Australia. | Subject: RE: Chicago Triathlon - Olympic Distance Congratulations! Good thing nobody had to bail you out dude. I hope your string of bad luck on the bike is over. |
| 2009-09-01 2:01 PM in reply to: #2380861 |
Extreme Veteran 451 Algonquin, IL | Subject: RE: Chicago Triathlon - Olympic Distance Nice job getting er done. I hope the demons are gone. |
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Woke up @ about 3:45 to get to the Transition setup by 4:15am. Ran out of the Hotel room and got to the transition at 4:10. Lined up and got a timing penalty for not having my chip on my leg. Good thing that it didn't matter, got an end on the far side of the bike rack, set up my equipment and heading back to the hotel as my wave wasn't heading out until 8:40am. Got back to the hotel and noticed that I forgot my sunglasses and could not find my timing chip. Made Austin and the wife angry with my craziness at 4:45 am as I tried to find these items. I had them both telling me to knock it off and calm down. Setlled down for a nap woke up about 7 am headed back down to the lobby grabbedsome fruit and headed to the swim start. It felt weird showing up and the race had already started, many had already finished. Hung around for a while feely nervous and pulled the wetsuit on, lined up and headed for the start.
No w/u as there was no place to swim in the Harbor.