Charlottesville Sprint Triathlon
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Charlottesville Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint
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Comments: First open water swim. The ground was muddy which made it hard both starting and finishing. I also had a lot of trouble breathing and had to do breast stroke for a bit of it. I'm also not used to swimming with that many people around. Definitely different, but now I've got my first open water done so I have a better idea of what to expect next time. Transition 1
Comments: Good transition. pretty quick. Bike
Comments: I'm glad I'm used to riding hills, now I just need to work on racing up them. I almost bit it on the first hard left turn that was at the bottom of a hill, but managed to keep control and not fall over. definitely a challenging course, but not too hard if you're used to riding up hills. What would you do differently?: Practice racing up hills more. Transition 2
Comments: Good transition. Dropped my gu at the beginning of the run but that only added a few seconds of time to go back & get it. Run
Comments: I just lost it at this point. The run was awful. I had a horrid cramp from the beginning of the run, and running in the woods on a trail like that was very technically difficult. I expected more of a packed limestone trail and not a single track dirt trail with branches & roots & lots of crazy curves and hills. When I saw the first mile marker I started crying. I just mentally went downhill. It was so hard. I ended up walking at least half of it, both because I was physically unable to handle it and because the trail itself was so much more difficult than I expected. What would you do differently?: I will not do trail runs again. and I will try to hold it together better mentally too. I think thats what did me in, the mental breakdown. Post race
Warm down: walked around. stretched a little. had water and a bite of banana (but they were all green) What limited your ability to perform faster: physically and mentally this was a hard race. But it was definitely the mental break down that limited me this time. Event comments: All overall rankings are for females only. They didnt post results for men & women combined. In total there were 275 people in the race. I will not do this race again, or if I do it will be in several years. It was a lot more difficult than I was expecting. I thought this would be a cake race and I might place in my age group. After seeing how difficult the bike course would be I think I psyched myself out and it was all downhill from there. I did not like the trail run and will not be doing trail races again. Pavement is fine with me. I need to work on being more positive mentally too. Last updated: 2005-06-21 12:00 AM
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Charlottesville Triathlon Club
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Overall Rank = 66/113
Age Group = Females 25-29
Age Group Rank = 17/26
Some stretching, drove the bike course the night before, had half a luna bar and a few gummy bears.