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Great Buckeye Challenge - Sprint Triathlon - TriathlonSprint
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Comments: Swim was ok, still having trouble making it through the entire course without stopping. Made it to roughly 1/2 way mark this time before gasping for air. Trouble getting my heart rate back in line to finish the swim, just couldn't catch my breath! Timing pad was probably 300m from the water's edge, without that distance my swim time would be closer to the target time. What would you do differently?: Pushed past the air issue and try and relax more, 1st part of the swim I was relaxed, 2nd part of the swim I became stress, mostly due to running into other swimmers and not being ablet o maintain a normal rythem.  Transition 1
Comments: 1st transition start was a long distance from water, had to run roughly 300m up a steep hill to get to the Transition area. Running up this hill took more energy than the entire swim!! Good transition not a whole lot of issues, Equipment is still at a minimum so not much to do.  Bike
Comments: Overall bike was pretty good, set plan of taking the 1st 6.5 miles with an easy gear to make it to the top of the turn. Then coming back drop into the big boy gears and push for home. Followed closely to this and worked out well. Max speed shows as 25.2mph, slow speed was 13.5! I need to get the low speed higher. What would you do differently?: Probably could have pushed a little harder =, but considering the 18mph+ pace is my fastest for the race I can not complain Transition 2
Comments: good transition other than the person in front of me causing a bit of a traffic jam, At the dismount part the course was narrowed down to barely one rider width. The person in front of me basically decides to come to complete stop get off check his shoes and then stroll to the transition area. What would you do differently?: Nothing  Run
Comments: Run wasn't bad, ran the entire length without much issues. Coming back really stressed me especially the last section coming up the back side of the levy, this was a lot of effort. Finished the run at a dead sprint for the last 400m. What would you do differently?: I think I could of pushed pace a little bit more, really do not believe I came to the breaking point. Best though would of only been by about 20-30s quicker on each mile. Overall pretty good!! Post race
Warm down: Drank a coke and ate a lot of watermelon. Walked roughly 1/2 mile for cool down. What limited your ability to perform faster: No limits other than the amount of training so far, Need to put on more endurance into swim to quicken the times and make it to the end!! Event comments: Good race, swim slowed me down. Setting my expectations high but just don't have the lung capacity yet to meet them. I will not lower them though. Last updated: 2011-08-08 12:00 AM
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 2011-08-22 8:48 PM |
Extreme Veteran  1123   Sidney, Ohio |  Subject: Great Buckeye Challenge - Sprint Triathlon |
| 2011-08-22 11:10 PM in reply to: #3654626 |
Veteran 274 | Subject: RE: Great Buckeye Challenge - Sprint Triathlon Awesome job. Nice talking to you before the race. |
| 2011-08-23 3:16 PM in reply to: #3654626 |
Extreme Veteran 477 , Virginia | Subject: RE: Great Buckeye Challenge - Sprint Triathlon Nice race report! Keep those expectations high, you'll get there! |
| 2011-08-23 8:01 PM in reply to: #3654626 |
Master 3486 Fort Wayne | Subject: RE: Great Buckeye Challenge - Sprint Triathlon "Setting my expectations high but just don't have the lung capacity yet to meet them. I will not lower them though." Very nice perspective! I like your way of thinking! This looks like a very well put together race. Sure the swim could use some improvement but given your relative newness to the sport I think you're doing really well. As you learn to use the Garmin 305 and apply the HR zones to your training and racing you'll see huge improvements. I think you had an awesome race! Great job! |
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Overall Rank = 141/196
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 8/11
Woke up early at 4:30am, ate cereal then gathered family for 1.5hr trip to race site. Hammer gel shortly before race start. Pre-viewed the course and amde sure I knew what direction to go in!
Easy 2 mile bike followed by 1/2 mile swim 1 hour before race start. 25m prior to race swam roughly 200m to get feel of water and loosen up shoulders!