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Comments: Cold! Just plain cold. Large boulder-type rocks as the start. Struggled some with my form but it was expected. Did I mention it was cold? What would you do differently?: Not jump in the water when the air and water temp are freezing!  Transition 1
Comments: Lousey transition. Long run from the beach. Could not feel my hands. My arms were frozen stiff and felt like flippers. Had trouble getting out of wetsuit and over shock from the cold water. What would you do differently?: Stay home.  Bike
Comments: Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I stettle in faily quickly and did not get passed after the 1st mile. What would you do differently?: Stay home. Transition 2
Comments: Not a bad transition. What would you do differently?: Nothing.  Run
Comments: Felt comfortable. Did not get passed. Wet and Cold. What would you do differently?: Need to do more bricks! Post race
Warm down: Sheltered inside my car. What limited your ability to perform faster: Weather and weight. Event comments: The race directors may have had the best of intentions but they were less than orgainzed. The course was fine but the pre and post race food and activities were minimal. Who wants to eat cold pizza after an effort like a triathlon? Coffee or hot choc. would have been great! Then again, God Bless anyone who will take on the challenge and responsibility of producing a tri! Last updated: 2006-04-17 12:00 AM
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 2006-05-13 8:33 PM |
Master  1901    Central, IL |  Subject: Mutisport Mayhem Triathlon |
| 2006-05-14 8:04 AM in reply to: #423086 |
Champion 8903  | Subject: RE: Mutisport Mayhem Triathlon Whew! Water temp at 52 degrees, that builds character! Well, at least you went from "stay home" to "nothing" to "need to do more bricks" in your evaluation of what you'd do differently, so I'm guessing you got more into the race as you went along. Congrats on getting out there and doing it...a lot of people would have stayed home!
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| 2006-05-14 1:50 PM in reply to: #423086 |
Expert 1157 Tremonton, Utah | Subject: RE: Mutisport Mayhem Triathlon Great Job! Way to hang in there --- When the going gets tough the tough do it! You proved you're tough today! 52 degrees water -- brrr -- bravge man to get in that --- glad you had a wetsuit -- but bet you wish it had sleeves!
Keep on doing great man!
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| 2006-05-14 2:13 PM in reply to: #423086 |
Champion 7704 Williamston, Michigan | Subject: RE: Mutisport Mayhem Triathlon Great Job John...whew doggie thats some COLD water. I would have gottne hypothermia!! Hope you had fun tho  |
| 2006-05-14 2:39 PM in reply to: #423086 |
Regular 88 Central Illinois | Subject: RE: Mutisport Mayhem Triathlon This man is tops!! He even stayed behind for the cerimonies, and let me hang with him in his van to warmup. This guy is all about support. I'm not sure you mentioned the "painful" rain (that felt like hail) during the bike, or the wind on the run that completely numbed the legs. Edited by oneslowdoc 2006-05-14 2:41 PM |
| 2006-05-14 9:19 PM in reply to: #423086 |
Master 1932 Savannah, | Subject: RE: Mutisport Mayhem Triathlon Brrrrr.....ya big baby. You KNOW I'm kidding. Great job.......it must have been a cold freakin' swim if you couldn't feel your arms when you got out! Way to stick it out......here, have some cocoa. |
| 2006-05-15 12:24 AM in reply to: #423086 |
Regular 64 | Subject: RE: Mutisport Mayhem Triathlon Way to stick it out. Great Job |
| 2006-05-15 10:35 AM in reply to: #423086 |
Champion 11641 Fairport, NY | Subject: RE: Mutisport Mayhem Triathlon Wow. That's some character building there. Nice job in tough conditions! |
| 2006-05-19 1:38 PM in reply to: #423086 |
| 15 | Subject: RE: Mutisport Mayhem Triathlon Good job on finishing a race on a tough day. The water was actually hovering around -60+ degrees, a few people (crazy people) did the swim with no wetsuits.. One guy with nothing but a little bitty Speedo. We actually shortened the swim due to the adverse conditions. The rocks on the swim need to be taken care of for sure! If you take a look at the race website, the bike is listed at 13 miles. You may have been thinking of Wolf Creek which is listed at 10 miles and is a more of a closed course. Like I said in another post about the race, unfortunately a handful of volunteers didn’t make it out on our beautiful race day so we did the best we could with the resources that we had. What most people didn’t know was that our finish line chip timer stopped working after 30 or so chips went across… fortunately we had a good backup… it was a little slower and manual but we were able to provide the results at 11:30am. I would have loved some coffee or hot chocolate myself… I was freezing… but there were several cases of water and soda in the pavilion. Edited by wetri 2006-05-19 1:41 PM |
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Mattoon Beach Multisport
52F / 11C
Precipitation
Overall Rank = 46/78
Age Group = Clydesdale
Age Group Rank = 4/9
Drank some protein mix with water.
Survival. It was about 50 degrees out! I did put my feet in the water.