Iron Star Triathlon
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Iron Star Triathlon - Triathlon1/2 Ironman
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Comments: Really like the course this year compared to the last years. First, it was a beach start with a run in. I've never done that before, so I got in a few practice starts in my warm up. No problems. You start in a marina and swim out, so the first part is baby smooth. Then you make your way back around to the back side of the resort to exit near transition. So I start in the 2nd row, with Will right next to me. He was hoping to get on my feet, but I was planning on hammering the first 200. So I just told him good luck at that. :) I may be a little cocky at times. :) Anyway... the gun goes off and magically the few people in front of us part for us. I thought to my self, well that is nice of them. I took one or two steps more than Will who went splat into the water. I had a good lil dive and came up half a body length ahead of everyone else. Shortly after a relay swimmer zoomed off at retard speed(25min swim on a long course). I kept swimming and was slowly pulling away from the pack, while thinking what are these guys doing, they are supposed to be faster and give me some good feet to ride. Then another relay swimmer goes on my left at a little bit of a slower pace than the other one. I was able to hop on for 100yards or so. It did get me clear of everyone and really set me up for a great swim. I did a quick roll over/backstroke move to make sure no one was on my feet. Then set off for the rest of the swim. As we were heading more into open water there were just some tiny waves that bobbed you just enough to make me change my stroke just a tad. I was starting to catch a lot of the wave ahead of us, Shortly after we made the turn back south(800m in or so). Around that time I let my kick go to a light two beat kick to help my self hold back. Shortly after that I started to catch a good chunk of the wave that started 10min up. I was taking the best lines possible and really didn't have to dodge as many swimmers as I expected to. They all went 5-10m off the perfect line, so I just went right on by. Over the last few 100 meters, I started to catch a good amount of the 3rd wave infront of us. I had fun the whole time, and thought I had to be on a great time(thinkign 27:40-28:20 or so). Got out of the water and to the strippers and saw 29:35(already past the timing mat). I went hmm, right on target but I felt like I swam faster. Seeing as only 3 of us went under 30min(plus two relays), I think it was long. Chris usually swims a 26, or a 27 something on an off day. He swam a 29 flat, with it being a off day. What would you do differently?: Nada. Transition 1
Comments: Not sure of time, us DNF people aren't worthy of partial results. However, I know it wasn't good. I should of ran right past the strippers who were too close to the water. I however went to them, even though I wasn't even close to having my wetsuit down to my waist. Fumbled with that for a bit, then finally got it off. Probably wasted 45s-1minute more than I needed to. Way to waste away a good swim huh. What would you do differently?: Just run by the strippers, they really just slowed me down being too close to the water. Bike
Comments: Well I got on the bike and my HR was 174, I was like... oh... not good. Really soft pedaled it the first 5min. Picked it up just a tad over the next 5min but was really trying to get it down under 160 before I tried to get in my grove. Finally I just started to go anyway and it finally settled down to where I wanted it. As has become a tradition Ritter usually passes me smack dab at half way on the bike. I figured with my horribly slow start, anything after 45min into the ride was game. So at around mile 20, I hear what sounds like a disc behind me. I look back and there he is! The punk! As is also the norm, he is the only guy not in a relay to pass me during races. Anyway at this point I was keeping on the low side of my zone and so I decided to chase him a bit to see how much he was pushing. He was actually gapping me ont he downs, but not much at all on the ups. Eventually my HR started to climb up to 160 and I made my self back off again. Despite what Will made me believe by blowing by me earlier than expected, I was going well. I had already made up good amount of time on the rest of the field, besides Will obviously, when I counted my time back on the out and back section. So Will was already in first OA or close to it as Kevin hadn't given up much time at that point and I wasn't far back from Will at that point, maybe a minute. That was about the half way point when I started to push into the higher effort of the zone I was trying to stay in to still be able to run well. Things were going good, holding steady for about 10 miles still on track for a good race. When my back wheel went pssssssst. That was that, as my spare was no good. 10 miles later in the sag wagon, John Roberston, sort of the other guy I was worried about was on the side of the road with the same problem. Transition 2
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Woke up at 3:30, and ate a big ol bow of Oatmeal. I had issues the night before that involved sitting on the toilet for 40min. As it happens, it's a good way to lose a couple pounds real quick. So I was a bit worried about what I ate that morning, so I kept it on the light side and made sure to drink well. It was a hour and 20min drive up to the race, so I was out the door at 4am.
On the way up my stomach keeps getting a little more upset as time goes by, finally about 5 miles from the race site, I had to GO and pulled into a gas station. Several minutes later, after a close call in the bathroom and probably another couple pounds lighter I was good to go. By the time I got to transition, I was feeling just fine.
10min jog and a few pick ups with Will at a little after 6am.
Then got in a short 7min or so swim with a few pick ups as well. I instantly felt really good in the water and even told Will as much. :)
Hey, the swim is the only thing I finished today, so I have to talk it up.