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America's Cup Aquathlon - Aquathlon
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Comments: This run felt pretty good, although I felt like I was laboring to breathe quite a bit in the first mile. Lots of water, potholes and ruts to consider along the way. What would you do differently?: Get a proper nights sleep  Transition 1
Comments: After the 9am run we drove from Union Reservoir to Grant Ranch for the clean water swim segment at 12:30. Safe to say this is the only T1 ever that will include a burrito lunch! What would you do differently?: eat a little less, I suppose  Swim
Comments: Worst. Swim. Ever. Before my wave started, when we waded into the water I started to 'see' I had problem, but didn't realize the severity. My goggles started fogging worse than I have ever experienced in open water, and only got worse with time. In the 1st 100 meters, I was sighting on the group to my left, and could barely see caps 5 feet away; By 250m, I was closer to shore than my wave. The goggles were literally opaque due to the fogging (almost want to call it icing), to the point where I had to pause to clear them as much as every 20-30 strokes - not an efficient way to swim. When I lifted my head straight up to look for buoys and caps, I literally couldn't see anything until I washed out the lenses, and had to repeat this silliness every 50 meters for the duration of the course. On top of the equipment issue, the water was fairly choppy and got worse as the swim went on, especially on the last 250m segment, going against the wind. What would you do differently?: Find an effective defogging product, or keep the lenses dry for the start. Transition 2
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Warm down: Stayed for results and awards, and ate the post-race pizza Lance ordered in. Saw a few folks drinking cold beer, could not fathom anything cold at that point in the day. What limited your ability to perform faster: equipment fail and inadequate sleep. Event comments: Lance and W/O Limits did a fantastic job salvaging the weekend under extremely difficult circumstances. Profile Album Last updated: 2011-04-23 12:00 AM
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 2011-05-22 10:42 AM |
Master  1402   Highlands Ranch |  Subject: America's Cup Aquathlon |
| 2011-05-23 4:07 PM in reply to: #3512172 |
Pro 4277  Parker, CO | Subject: RE: America's Cup Aquathlon Sounds like it was the wrong weekend for holding this race. Don't think I would have wanted to be swimming near you and MAtt after those burritos.  Nice job! |
| 2011-05-24 10:04 AM in reply to: #3512172 |
Master 1730 Straight outta Compton | Subject: RE: America's Cup Aquathlon Forget about the goggle malfunction and remember that you put together a killer PR for that 5K- nicely done! I dream of running that fact one day  |
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Without Limits Productions
65F / 18C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 88/129
Age Group = 45-49
Age Group Rank = 7/11
The day before the race, Without Limits gets notice there's no swimming in Union Res due to e.Coli levels 4x the safe limit. As a result, the run is 1st, in Longmont, followed by the swim in Grant Ranch, at mid-day. This made for some heady logistics before the race even started.
Even better, work had me up until 11pm, then called at 2am and had me up another hour+, so my sleep was something approaching 6 hours, in a couple of three hour segments. Good times.
Carpooled up and around with McGilmartin, who brought along the 3x shot coffee cup that kept me from literally and figuratively crashing on the side of the road, thanks Matt!
Chatted with a guy named Bullet and his buddy, stretched a little, observed the large ratio of racers with their names on their singlets. It might be small, but this is a National Championship event, and people who aren't me were qualifying for Worlds in China later this year.