Galena Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 2)

Dude.  Hope you are ok.  take care my friend.

69 is plenty cold for a wetsuit.  You might want to reconsider when water temp gets to high 70's but there is no way you will overheat on such a short swim at 69.  I would think that mostly everyone is still gonna wear them.

I did a Non USAT race last year in Wisconsin that had water temp of 83 and people were wearing their wetsuits.

Agreed.

Wear it.  You will get a benefit from wearing it.  Do it. I know I will be doing it and this is my 4th year in Galena.

What kind of issues are you having taking the wetsuit off?  If it is getting stuck on your legs/calves/ankles I would suggest some body glide in those areas to help. 

Good luck!

Too true!

Here is are a few video's of how you might do it on race day. 

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=1488

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAg59pWOdRc

I survived. Woke up and was kind of sick, so backed down the effort to a solid training day. The smell of the water didn't help any either. Still fun.

Here is the run profile. Well most of it. Garmin didn't lock in until the bottom of the first hill, so that's when I started it. Ascending should all be there. 345 ft total. About half of that was in half a mile or so.

(Galena Run Profile.png)

That's what I would have thought too.  Mapmyride only has 525 feet, which just doesn't seem right when the run shows 314 feet of gain.  Is Mapmyride THAT far off?

Also, I just need to say I love everything about this race except for one thing.  Their results reports.  They are horrible.  No way to tell how you did against others in your AG or overall in each of the 3 disciplines.  It really is one of the poorer reports out there.  Unless someone else has another link that has taken their data and translated it. 

Other than that, I'll be back again next year.  Knocked almost 6 minutes off my time from last year.  Couldn't be happer. 

Wouldn't be the first time. I don't trust it at all for the numbers. It does alright for getting the overall idea of the terrain though. You can tell where the big ones are and get the idea that the first 5 miles or so were especially up & down very often.

Yep, that's what I mean.  Like you said, it is possible, it is just a PITA to do it from a pdf.  And no good way of cutting and pasting into excel either.

Dude, you rock!

Very nice!

16th on the bike. Really wish I had been feeling better, but still seemed to do ok looking at a few of the names around my time. I'm not a swimmer and took it easy on the run, so can't really fit that anywhere.

Thanks again for that Hayes. 

Also, I realize just how friggen competitive M40-44 is with my ranking.  26% overall versus 32% in AG.  I'm getting faster with age but so is everyone else.