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Stirling Try a Tri - TriathlonSprint
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Comments: Started 5th in my lane and was instantly caught up in a train of people. It took several lengths to get past 3 people, sometimes was down to swimming breaststroke. Eventually cleared them and set off in pursuit of the remaining person. Caught her pretty easily and sat behing her taking a tow. Swim from here on felt pretty easy other than worrying wether or not to overtake. What would you do differently?: The time must include getting out of the pool and running to the start of T1 so I've got to be happy with the time. Overall though it felt way too easy, this is probably a knock on from last months BT swim challenge. I guess my predicted swim time was not fast enough. Transition 1
Comments: Shirt got a bit stuck on the shoulders. What would you do differently?: Maybe invest in one of these tri suits so that I don't need to put a shirt on. Bike
Comments: Fairly depressing ride. The same thing happened as the last time I did this race (1998). As I've got a fairly reasonable swim time I'm paired with all these guys that are much better than me. The result is in the first mile of the cycle everyone hammers past me and I struggle on in complete isolation until the fast guys from the next wave catch up and zoom past. What would you do differently?: I'm open to suggestions. Obviously get better at the bike is the easy thing to say, it's just tough to put into practise. I may start a thread to see what others have to say on this. Transition 2
Comments: Ok, maybe I over stated the bike problem because when I got back to the bike rack I wasn't last. Huge big gap on the rack for competitor 505, the trouble was I was no. 504. Managed to squeeze my bike in at the third attempt. What would you do differently?: I had helped put the numbers on the scaffolding the previous day, so I should have checked my number then and given myself tons of room. Run
Comments: Not very happy with the run either. Half way round my stomach was really bothering me again. Felt bloated and uncomfortable. Tricky conditions and was definitely struggling. Still had the same problem as the bike where generally everyone is passing me giving the knock on effect of making me feel worse than it probebly is. What would you do differently?: Not have a sore tummy. Maybe take on some energy bar or something during the cycle. Post race
Warm down: Very much a token warm down. I was to keen to find out how everyone else had done. Must remember to do a better warm down. What limited your ability to perform faster: A sore stomach and competing in a bit of a vacuum. Event comments: My race report doesn't sound very up beat. This is wrong, I had a great time. I think when your writing a report it's hard not to focus on all the things that didn't go quite right. I brought my camera to take some photos. Was the first bike in transition so I took a photo of that. I then helped at registration and forgot all about my camera until I was heading home. I might get some other pictures from a friend. The bike split times are not in yet, I will update this when they are. Last updated: 2005-06-06 12:00 AM
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2005-06-06 6:40 PM in reply to: #169212 |
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Scotland
Stirling Triathlon Club
12C / 54F
Overcast
Overall Rank = 196/264
Age Group = Vet
Age Group Rank = 52/62
Helped at the registration tent doing the body marking. I thoroughly recommend this job. Fascinating the difference in peoples limbs. Some were smooth and easy to write on, much like writing on a bannana skin with a ball point pen. Others were quite unfeasably hard, some thick, some thin. None were flabby (I did not write my own number on though).
Suffered from a sore stomach prior to the race. Probably caused by pre race nerves and the random eating times, had breakfast before 6:00am and didn't eat anything else prior to my race 10:00am.
Very limited warm up. We had 3 mins until start time when we got into the pool so did a token couple of lengths