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Comments: I was in the 1st position in my lane so I had to lead everyone off. I was a little worried about this because I really haven't swam much in the past few weeks and I put down an estimated swim time that was a little fast (8:20) expecting that I would be able to draft. I pretty much held a good pace and ended up lapping the some of the other people in my lane at around the 350m mark. I felt strong the entire swim though and over the last 100m or so I slowed down the pace to tried to get my HR to settle down a bit for the run. I startd to think about transition and where my bike was and what I needed to do. What would you do differently?: Nothing really. I was really impressed by how well I did in the water. I didn't expect to crack 8:30 without being about to draft off a faster swimmer.  Transition 1
Comments: Ran into T1 and it was still raining pretty good. I thought I might try to put on a long sleave shirt and tried for about 10 sec but it was really soaked and gave up on it (am I'm glad because even in the cold rain I got rather hot). The rest of transition went well and I was happy to get on the bike. What would you do differently?: Not try to put a shirt on. If the temp is over 15C regardless of weather I'm just going with a tri suit.  Bike
Comments: The bike went really well for me. I was able to hammer and there were some awesome long gradual down hills that I was holding a +50kph pace on for a while which felt amazing. The bike was 2 loops and I've biked the course so I had a pretty good handle on where I was and how much I had left to go. It was really wet though and I saw a racer go down hard in front of me. She took a corner a little to fast and went down. It didn't look good. She later passed me on the run bleeding from both hips and elbows. How hardcore is that. You could just see other people looking at her thinking OMG how is she running that fast with blood everywhere. What would you do differently?: Nothing really. I wouldn't wear sunglasses. I jsut had to take them off because they fogged up and wasted time trying to shove them back into my bento box. Transition 2
Comments: T2 went really smooth. I really feel like it was less then 15 sec. The only problem that I had was I tried getting out of my shoes before my biked stopped a like to late and only got out of one. What would you do differently?: Get out of shoes earlier  Run
Comments: The run went really well. I held a pace that was quicker then what I ran a stand alone 10k about a month ago. So I was very happy about that. I didn't feel at that well for the first few k but after about 3 I really fell into my stride and pushed it. I passed quite a few people but also got passed but a bunch of really speedy runners. What would you do differently?: I think that I could have pushed the pace a bit more over the last 2k but I all in all I think I ran a well paced run. Post race
Warm down: walked around a bit and ate some bagels that they had out. Drank a ton of water. I also streached a little bit later that night What limited your ability to perform faster: Training. I really slacked off these past few weeks and although well rested felt pretty rusty Last updated: 2006-02-05 12:00 AM
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 2006-06-05 11:45 AM |
Master  1641     Seattle, California |  Subject: Panorma Classic Triathlon |
| 2006-06-05 1:36 PM in reply to: #443514 |
Master 1320 Chilliwack, BC | Subject: RE: Panorma Classic Triathlon Hey, thats a great race. Next year, I think I will tackle that one. Nice run, wow, they must have fast people in there. That time is smoking and you were 6/8. Too many triathletes in Victoria me thinks. Great race James. And you got tri coach now? |
| 2006-06-05 1:54 PM in reply to: #443722 |
Master 1641 Seattle, California | Subject: RE: Panorma Classic Triathlon Crazypop - 2006-06-05 11:36 AM Hey, thats a great race. Next year, I think I will tackle that one. Nice run, wow, they must have fast people in there. That time is smoking and you were 6/8. Too many triathletes in Victoria me thinks. Great race James. And you got tri coach now? Ya Victoria is a tough place to compete. There is so much depth to the competition. 2 guys in my age group ran the 8k in around 27 min! The others that beat me came in around 2 - 1 min ahead of my time. Me and Kristi got a coach |
| 2006-06-05 3:27 PM in reply to: #443514 |
Expert 655 Denver | Subject: RE: Panorma Classic Triathlon That's an awesome job on that race, I was going to do it but just could not commit for that weekend. Are you doing the half-iron in 2 weeks? I will be in that, it should be fun. Anyway, awesome job, keep up the good work. Cheers, Mike |
| 2006-06-05 3:33 PM in reply to: #443514 |
molto veloce mama 9311  | Subject: RE: Panorma Classic Triathlon nice race. i've had a rough month w/ training, so i hear you on the 'rusty' thing  |
| 2006-06-05 4:07 PM in reply to: #443514 |
| Subject: RE: Panorma Classic Triathlon Great race, James. You completely smoked your swim, bike AND run! You must be very happy You've got lofty goals ahead, and with a race like this under your belt, I'm sure the decision to do IMC next year is even more solidified. Good on ya! |
| 2006-06-06 1:24 PM in reply to: #443514 |
Member 82 Vancouver,BC | Subject: RE: Panorma Classic Triathlon Nice work James! I vollied for this race last year, and it was raining then too! Lots of slideouts on the Mt Newton turn onto W.Saanich. The lap counters were also a bone of contention with some folks - luckily you didn't get a dyslexic one! Keep it up, you'll be smoking an IM cigar soon! |
| 2006-06-06 2:25 PM in reply to: #443514 |
| Pro 4040 | Subject: RE: Panorma Classic Triathlon Nice race. It's a similar distance to the one I'll be doing on the 17th, except the swim is 1km. You're time is great, I'll be happy if I come in within 50 minutes of your time. |
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Got up at around 5:15, and went to the fridge for my race morning red bull. I had packed everything up the night before so all I had to do was make my bottles and get my food together. I made me and Kristi some recovery drinks for the race but we ended up forgeting them... Actually I forgot to bring all of my food to the race. I was going to bring quite a bit becuase we had to get there close to the beginning to set up in transition (6:45) but I was in the 8th heat which didn't start in the pool till 9:45... Nothing like a 3 hour wait to start :) Basically I just watched the heats before me and drank about 2L of sports drink to get some more calories in my system. I also was able to cheer on Kristi becuase she started about an hour and a half before I did.
Got in the pool and did about a 150m - 200m warmup. My arms were hurting a little bit due to a fitness test I had with my tri coach a few days ealier (in which I had to do pushups till exaustion). It didn't seem to affect me all that much though in the actual race.