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Comments: I was not overly pleased with my swim today. My workout swims the past couple of weeks have had me at about 2:00/100 -- today only was able to hold about 2:14. Several things contributed to this issue. 1. - Water temperature was much too warm. Almost everyone I talked to did about 30 seconds slower on the swim than they wanted to. 2. - Breathing. I didn't control my breathing well. I had planned to bilateral the entire race -- only made it about 100 yards before that went out the door! I think that was also impacted by water temp. 3.- TURNS --- They absolutely stunk today, espcially the lane changes. Didn't get myself deep enough going under the ropes and kinda hung up in them a couple times. Also, was passing someone around a turn and that messed me up a little bit. 4.- Didn't stretch out my stroke as well today as I have in the past several workouts, which impacted my pace. All said though, I was faster than at the Icebreaker, so I shouldn't complain too loudly. It's just that I had really hoped to break 5 minutes on the swim today and didn't. I worked hard in the swim, but because I didn't breath well, my stroke lost efficiency. I also lost a lot of time on the turns today. What would you do differently?: Plan my turn better. Be more aware of my position in relation to the other swimmers in the lane I'm in. Be more agressive in passing. I did pass at least one swimmer, so that's exciting, given we were in Time Trial starts spaced 15 seconds apart. Focus HARD on breathing bilaterally throughout the swim. My stroke is much more efficient when I do that While my swim was my worst performance today, I did learn some things.  Transition 1
Comments: Had laid everything out well, so not an issue there. Decided to take runningfoo's advice and bag the gloves which saved a couple of seconds. Had some problems getting my bike shoes on. Had them opened up well, but they just didn't want to go onto my feet. Also had a small problem getting my helmet fastened. Didn't mount the bike very well coming out ot the transition. What would you do differently?: Learn how to put my shoes on with them on my bike. Don't fight the helmet. Remember to start Garmin when crossing time mat so I have good data for my records (didn't remember to start it until I was about a minute or so into the bike -- URGH) I also need to practice mounting more quickly. I'm REALLY slow at that  Bike
Comments: Overall, I was quite pleased with the ride. Kept my cadence pretty consistent throughout, and to my recollection was only passed about twice, but I passed MANY other racers which was VERY exciting for me. Worked hard on keeping my cadence good by working a lot with my gearing. Only one section did I not manage that well, and consequently that may have cost me about .2-.3 MPH on the overall pace. I would have really liked to have had an average pace of 20 MPH plus, but I guess I was pretty close at 19.8 MPH average pace. Needed to not slow down as early as I did on the turn arounds, which also cost me some time. What would you do differently?: Be more agressive on the turn arounds so as to keep pace up better. Work on getting myself on to my drop bars (since I don't have aero's) to improve my aerodynamics. Work on mounting and dismounting with shoes clipped in. That could save me 30 secs to a minute in transition. Transition 2
Comments: This transition was pretty good except for dismounting the bike. Haven't mastered doing that while rolling well. It's clip out, stop, get off, and then try to run, in bike shoes to my racking spot. Shoe change wasn't too bad, except I forgot to go to the store and get some Yankz, which would have save 15-30 seconds on this transition. What would you do differently?: GET YANKZ, Learn to take shoes off while approaching transition zone.  Run
Comments: My pace was not quite as fast as I'd hoped, even though it was a PR for me. In looking at the results of others in my age group, to become really competitive in my group, and get into the hardware dept, I need to increase my running speed by about 10-30 seconds per mile. That's a tall order, but given my improvements over 3 mile distances in the past several months, it's doable. BEST and WORST part of this run--- Only got passed once that I remember, but the dude that passed me was in my Age Group! URGH. I did pass a lot of people. Also, take more care in what I drink along the course. At the first water stop at mile 1, I took a glass of Elite (gatorade). I haven't taken that product before. It tasted fine, but I tried to drink it too fast and choked myself, in the process gagging myself and almost having to stop a couple times over the next couple tenths to puke. Fortunately I didn't puke, but I came close, and it slowed me down some for a short time. My pace overall was quite consistent. According to my Garmin, my pace stayed within a 5 second per mile range which was great. I just need to not be afraid to push a little bit harder. What would you do differently?: Drink the replenishment drink before the race, so I'm familiar with it's taste. Don't be afraid to push a little harder in the home stretch. Post race
Warm down: Walked it off, made Randy happy by puking a little at the finish line. Took some water, some grapes, and a bagel as post race nurishment. This was a great race for me today! I'm VERY pleased with my overall performace having improved my time from last months Icebreaker Triathlon by a full 3 minutes! I improved my time in every area of the race. I was SO excited by how little I was passed today, and how many people I was able to pass. I was the 109th person to start, but finished 67th, so given that, I basically passed 42 people during the course of the race. Being that this was a time trial, I didn't physically pass that many, but it shows me that I can be competitive as a triathlete. I think I've finally found a sport that I can do WELL! That's a BIG MOTIVATOR to me. And given that I have come so close to hardware in the past 2 races, I'm even more motivated to train hard and have a shot at getting on the podium. What limited your ability to perform faster: Choking on replenishment drink. Not planning my turns in the swim better. Having challenges with the mount/dismount in the transitions, difficulties getting my biking shoes on quickly. Event comments: Good, well run race, but frustratred by the changes in distances after the race was advertised. This is the second race that they have done this with this year. They're batting a 1000. I'll do this race again in the future. It's a great season building workup race. Profile Album Last updated: 2006-03-26 12:00 AM
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 2006-04-23 11:15 AM |
Expert  1157    Tremonton, Utah |  Subject: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon |
| 2006-04-23 11:57 AM in reply to: #404068 |
Expert 900 Austin, TX | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon Congrats on the improvements from last time. I'm sure that the swim will only get better as you get more race experience and learn to RELAX. And it sounds like you've trimmed down the transition time a bit, but will do so even more next time. It looks to me like you had pretty darn good bike and run legs. You probably would have broken 20mph on the bike without the speed bumps! And PR on the 5k. Congratulations!!! Have you decided what's next on the race schedule? |
| 2006-04-23 12:45 PM in reply to: #404068 |
Pro 4545 Orange Park Florida | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon Nice job! How is the pool swim laid out? ie did you swim the circumfr. of the pool so many times or what? |
| 2006-04-23 1:15 PM in reply to: #404091 |
Expert 1157 Tremonton, Utah | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon Mike 45 - 2006-04-23 11:45 AM Nice job! How is the pool swim laid out? ie did you swim the circumfr. of the pool so many times or what? 25 yard pool 5 lanes wide, although the lanes seemed a bit on the narrow side. Distace was made by swimming up and back in one lane then going under the rope and going up and back in that lane through the end of the distance. So basically did 5 laps, 1 in each lane. Was a Time Trial start so we lined up according to our race number (determined by estimated swim time) and they started us off at 15 second intervals. Not a bad format, but does make it a little more challenging to see where you are in relation to the rest of the field.
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| 2006-04-23 1:22 PM in reply to: #404107 |
Pro 4545 Orange Park Florida | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon wow. Makes me dizzy just thinking about it. I would probably turn the wrong way and end up going upstream.  |
| 2006-04-23 1:35 PM in reply to: #404068 |
Master 1978 Chelmsford, Massachusetts | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon Nice bike split! I'm sure the water temp had a lot to do with your swim performance. Warm water is so hard to deal with! Your run was great! Bike on washboard sounds like the course down here at Fort DeSoto...very rough road... GREAT JOB!! |
| 2006-04-24 7:28 PM in reply to: #404068 |
Extreme Veteran 475 Blaine, MN | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon nice race brett... im a bit surprised abotu the swim time considering your pretty much a fish nowadays... keep it up though... youll get there... shaving your legs... yikes!! bilateral isn't everything its cracked up to be... and flipping aint either... OW swim next? killer bike time btw... Regards!!! |
| 2006-04-24 10:24 PM in reply to: #404068 |
Master 1901 Central, IL | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon Very solid effort so early in the year. Awesome job! Keep on keep'n on! |
| 2006-04-24 10:38 PM in reply to: #405482 |
Extreme Veteran 570 | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon Dude, you are my NEMISIS. Damnit man! And it's the shaved legs that did it! That was your secret . . . better watch out 'cause now I know! That run time was sweet! All that speed work paid off handsomely. Freaking lets all do USG in June. BT road trip. I'm already registered otherwise I won't race with ya'll again until Ogden . . . cause I will probably be in San Fran the weekend of Jordanelle. |
| 2006-04-25 6:58 AM in reply to: #404068 |
Expert 1070 North Carolina | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon Another great race!! You now have two under your belt for the year. I would not worry about staying consistent on any swim below the 400 yard mark. You are so jacked up and it is so short it's hard to get into a good rhythm. I usually drop my plan about half way through on these races as well. I am guessing next year I will be able to follow my swimming plan in these shorter races. As for getting sick, I did the same in my race...........unfortunately I was still on the course. Great job!!! |
| 2006-04-25 8:19 AM in reply to: #404068 |
Veteran 219 Centreville, MD | Subject: RE: In Training Spring Pool Triathlon Great job, Brett! Getting faster every race! |
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Got up about 6:00 am. Decided I needed a "ritual" so I shaved the legs. In the process cut the back of my left knee pretty good. Took a few minutes to deal with that issue.
Packed up the transition bag, checking about 90 times to make sure I had everything. In the end the only thing I missed was a pen and paper to record preliminary results with. Will make sure I do that next time.
Had a protien shake, and some Xango for my breakfast. Randy picked me up about 6:45 and we headed off to the race (4 miles from the house!)
Got to the race, unloaded the bikes, checked the tires and got the transition set up. Met up with Billy, yojimbo, and met pbarlowtri while waiting in line to start.
Didn't get a good race warmup. They wouldn't let anyone in the pool area until about 15 minutes before the race. Time Trial start, so I would have been standing around wet. Ran in place a little bit, jumped up and down a couple time to get loosened up.