Motivation Man Olympic Triathlon
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Comments: Rankings were in my wave (Oly, Clydes and Relays). I knew going into this that I was going to be one of the first ones in my wave out of the water so I hammered hard on the swim and found myself in the midst of a bunch of red caps from the age grouper wave by the first turn. By the second turn, I was catching the first wave of AGs and into the gap between the good swimmers and the not so good swimmers in the AG. What would you do differently?: Nothing, I did a good job. I think the only thing I can do in my swim is pick up my intensity on my swim practices. Transition 1
Comments: I had the fastest transition by about 15 seconds. I worked for a few weeks running from my garage to the road and then jumping on the bike and pedaling on top of my shoes and working my feet into my shoes on the ride. I even had time to mess with my tri tank in transition. Next race, I'll just wear a tri top. What would you do differently?: One thing I really messed up was that I taped a gatorade gel to the bike and I couldn't get it untaped and then it bust open and I lost about 2/3rds of it on the road. From now on, I'll have it taped better and I'll work on opening nutrition in training. Bike
Comments: Overall is by wave. I rode a little too hard. The bridges exposed my lousy climbing abilities as I had to get out of the saddle each time and hammer. I need to work on hills. I may have gone too hard on the bike as I had some issues on my run. What would you do differently?: Train better, train on hills more, use HRM for training and the race to keep my pace on-track. Transition 2
Comments: I needed to put socks on because I chewed up my feet on my run last week. That took a while, but I think it was overall worth it. I then had issues getting my belt on and dropped my gu pack in the process. What would you do differently?: I'm going to give up some time putting socks on for Olys. For Sprints, I can forgo them. I can keep my belt clipped and put it over my head or pull it up like shorts. I can put my gu in my tri top before I start everything else. Run
Comments: I started off great, logging 9:30 times to the 2.5 mile mark. But, because I dropped my gu pack in T2, I had to use the oncourse nutrition from Accelerade which had always caused bad stomach cramps. I tried it anyway and sure enough cramp city. I was run/walking the rest of the race. What would you do differently?: Don't leave my nutrition in T2, put water only in my bottle (I had some gatorade in there). Post race
Warm down: Walking around for a bit. What limited your ability to perform faster: Nutrition on the run. Taking Accelerade and Gatorade was not a good mix. Event comments: Pretty good race. Only thing that may kill it is that the swim is so nasty and they didn't have a good plan known to all the athletes. Last updated: 2012-06-04 12:00 AM
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Age Group = 0-39, 200-224#
Age Group Rank = 1/3
Up at 4, had already set everything out or in the car except for the ice for my drinks. Bagged those up, jumped in the car, hit MCD's for a Smoothie on my way to the race. Ate a Kashi Bar and a Peanut Butter Sandwich on the way down. Got there pretty early, set up my bike and transition area and then put my stuff in the car and stood around for a long time. I'm happy I got there early because I could park my car, but if I had to do it again, I'd probably bring a lawn chair and sit down until closer to the start.
I didn't really do much for warmups. I jumped in the water and swam about 50 yards, just enough to test the clarity and temperature of the water.