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Comments: Lost my earplugs before the start. (Had them stored in the sleeve of my wetsuit. Note to self, store them somewhere else and bring a spare pair next time.) As a result of losing the earplugs, I got swimmer's vertigo before I hit the 300m buoy. Had a hard time telling which way was up and felt very dizzy. felt like I was in s washing machine. Kept on going, and eventually found a guy that I just drafted off of for 90% of the remaining swim. I am sure that he was pissed off at me by the end because about every 10-15 strokes, one of us would touch the other -- either me with my hand against his arm or him kicking me. But based on the vertigo, drafting was the only way I was going to get through it. What would you do differently?: Not lose the only pair of earplugs I have, and BRING A SPARE PAIR OF EARPLUGS. Also, it would be good to do more swim practicing. The only practice within the previous 2 months was the 2.5 mile swim around the island in the beginning of August. Need to get in the pool/water more. Transition 1
Comments: My transition are was not as well organized as I would have liked it -- because of the rain and the interest in trying to keep my stuff dry. Also, because of how many people there were in the race and how transition had to be set up, the distance from the water to T1 was like a quarter mile. What would you do differently?: Practice T1 more. I need to get the precise order of steps in place by rote. Bike
Comments: Bike felt great. Just got on new (to me) Felt TT bike, and it flew. Loved it. Felt like I was just flying. Only problems were: 1. Bike chain came off after cresting a hill and shifting the front ring. Had to stop and put it back on. 2. The course was incredible crowded. In 2009, I had thought the course was crowded and there were less than 3000 participants. This time, there were 5000 participants (7000 had signed up, but 2000 were no shows, I assume because of the overcrowding or because of the weather). At one point, the USAT official came up and clearly thought that I had entered 3 bike lengths of the guy in front of me. (He demonstrably was looking at his watch.) It caused me to sprint to pass the next three guys, who were riding in a pack in any event. The USAT official nodded, indicating that I had passed within 15 seconds and not incurred an infraction. But it was incredible how many people there were out there, and how crowded the course was. What would you do differently?: Nothing. Had a great bike. Transition 2
Comments: Felt good in transition. Remembered to first take helmet off, which, because it is so comfortable, I can forget. Put my watch and Road ID on as i was running out of T2. felt smooth. What would you do differently?: reset my GPS watch before the race. It still had the last workout on it, and I did not realize it until I looked at it to determine distance, and it said that I had gone 10.5 miles when I knew that I had only gone about 1. (Last run was 9.6 miles, but I had forgotten the precise distance.) Run
Comments: Run felt relatively good, but not great (until I used the portopotty at mile 3.5). Was on cruise control - steady state running that I felt like I could do all day. Picked up the pace for the last third of a mile, sprinting into the finish line (well, sprinting for me; most runners would call it abmling or shuffling). Post race
What limited your ability to perform faster: lack of sleep, earplugs, more swim practice, practice in T1 Last updated: 2009-10-06 12:00 AM
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70F / 21C
Precipitation
Overall Rank = 1087/4391
Age Group = M 40-44
Age Group Rank = 172/496
Woke up early due to non-race stress issues. Eventually got up, took a shower and had oatmeal grabbed a banana, and drove to race site. Got to site at 5:20 (much earlier than intended, basically due to a combination of the fact that I could not sleep and I had built some cushion time into the drive just in case).
Went to transition. At this point, it was raining, and moving from slight to moderate rain to light to moderate. The event announcer repeatedly claimed that "we are in the last band of rain right here, and it should be ending soon", but the rain kept coming.
Did not take my stuff out of the bag until the last minute because I wanted to preserve the possibility of keeping it dry.
Met up with a colleague and his wife who were doing the race as well.
Some movement and stretching. But we were forced out of transition at about 7:20 and I did not start until about 8:10, and we were packed in in the corrals so I did not get much dynamic warm-up.