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Milton Try-a-tri - TriathlonMini Sprint
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Comments: I made the smart decision to start near the back, I learned a lot from Belwood. I held off for a few seconds after the gun (horn) to give a lttle space. From there I started to swim like I do in the pool, but it wasn't going to happen. The lack of visability in the water was really throwing off my mental capacity, and soon thereafter I could feel anouther panic attack coming on. Damn! So I did a sort of half-ass freestyle/breaststroke. Whenever I took on water (which I dod as my head was up the whole time) I did a little backwards sculling before continuing on my way. As soon as I touched bottom I stood up, ripped (not quite) off my swimcaps and goggles and got the hell out of the water! What would you do differently?: Multiple things that I would do differently. I would A) buy a wetsuit. that water was soooooooo c-c-c-cold! holy major shrinkage batman! I would also spend more time in open water, this is most definatly my limiter. I can swim, and swim failry well. But put me in a lake, and I'm a doggy-paddling four year old.  Transition 1
Comments: T1 started off alright, I came out of the water running strong and quicky threw on my jesey, cliped on my race number. Then grabed my sunglasses, popped on m helment and ran with the bike. hit the dismount line and this is where the problem happened. I jumped on the bike ok, but when I put my foot down to pedal away (shoes on bike w/elastics) and only caught the toe of the shoe, jamming it into the ground. Damn #2! so I finally got under way and kicked it into High gear. What would you do differently?: I would definalty practise my TI more, although I thought I had it.  Bike
Comments: Fast! is the way to describe the ride. My average is shown slower than it actually was because it includes transition, but wow! I pretty much had to stay in the left side of the lane as I was passing a constant stream of people. YeOwZa! But I stayed in the small chainring as there where a few rollers out there. There is one stupid thing that I did however, but I'll include that in T2. I was so caught up in the moment I didn't drink any water, but I took in so much in the swin I didn't worry about it. What would you do differently?: I would not to the dumb thing I did. Transition 2
Comments: D'OH! what did I do to start off T2? I TOOK MY FEET OUT OF MY SHOES TOO EARLY!! Oh my @#$%^& god, I cannot believe that I did that. Right before I rounded what I thought was the last corner, I pulled out. Nope! still a kilometer or so to go! This is the only place I was passed though the whole ride. other that that *minor* slip-up, I slipped on my running shoes, grabbed my visor, turned around my race number and off I went. What would you do differently?: Not pull out as soon as I did.  Run
Comments: Well I didn't expect that hill of the top, but I was able to handle it well nevertheless. There was a quite a bit of mud on the trail as it rained the day before. So you had to watch out for the puddles. other than that it was smooth sailing. I think that I only go passed once, but passed a couple of people near the end. I drank a little bit at the first aid station but declined when I passed it again. What would you do differently?: I could maybe have gone harder in the last half, but it is really hard to tell. Post race
Warm down: I lightly walked off the race, but not without smiling for the camera! I walked over to the fencing where my dad hugged and congratulated me on a terrific time, he seemed to keep reminding me that this was only my second triathlon. "Yes dad I know, I did them". After I went to double check Jon's bib # so I could cheer him on in the finish. But just then, I heard "And from Oakville Ontario...Jonathon Waldie". Oops, I ran over to congratulate the other member of the Oakville tri club and my first time meeting a BTer. That was cool. I hung out with Jono and his dad few a few minutes, as well as some dude named David, I could hear who he was over the PA. We parted ways and I watched the start of the Sprint. Wow that looks like a long way. Lots of nice bikes too, I think I counted at least 6 Cervelo P3C's out there, one with a Zipp 909 disk set! I have come to appreciate the whoosh sound that a disk makes :). During the bike I was looking for #335 coming out of T1 and going into T2. It was Geoff (geoffs) and he says now that he did indeed hear me. I coudn't stay to watch him finish and say hello, but I did see him round the last corner. I also saw someone with the same jersey as me! its a shop jersey so it got me kind of exciteded, I called out "good luck Kamikaze!" That was fun. What limited your ability to perform faster: Open f---ing water. I really have to get over that. Event comments: This was a really awesome race, official reasults are here ---> http://www.sportstats.ca/res2006/milttat.htm I am definatly doing the sprint next year, with a wetsuit! Profile Album Last updated: 2005-12-11 12:00 AM
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 2006-06-05 9:16 PM |
Master 1534   |  Subject: Milton Try-a-tri |
| 2006-06-05 9:42 PM in reply to: #444281 |
Expert 620  Guelph, Ontario | Subject: RE: Milton Try-a-tri sweet race! Totally got me excited for my race this weekend. As far as the open water thing is concerned, you just need to get out there and do it. I think there are a few races through out the summer. There is one in Leamington on the 18th of June. Great results and nice way to start of the summer |
| 2006-06-06 5:43 AM in reply to: #444281 |
Veteran 128 Barrie, Ontario | Subject: RE: Milton Try-a-tri Congrats on the great race man. You really did well. It was good to finally meet you in person. Keep up the good work! |
 2006-06-06 11:04 AM in reply to: #444281 |
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| 2006-06-06 11:33 AM in reply to: #444281 |
| Crystal Lake, IL | Subject: RE: Milton Try-a-tri Thanks for the great report. Sounds like you had a blast. Don't sweat the swim - you just like setting up all those people to pass on the bike. It works for Bear!
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| 2006-06-06 12:15 PM in reply to: #444281 |
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| 2006-06-06 12:31 PM in reply to: #444281 |
| Master 1534 | Subject: RE: Milton Try-a-tri I'm going to see about doing a 5k and a TT or two before my next tri. That would be the Lake Belwood Triathlon weekend, I'm racing on one day and volunteering the other. Look for the thread in Triathlon Talk to see my dilemma. Jon, we can't wait for the next tri, a think a weekly training ride is in order! Thanks all! |
| 2006-06-06 2:53 PM in reply to: #444281 |
| Veteran 146 Hannon, Ontario | Subject: RE: Milton Try-a-tri Great job! Not a bad water temp for Kelso this time of year - I bet you could still feel your feet once you hit land! Keep it up |
| 2006-06-06 8:31 PM in reply to: #444281 |
| Extreme Veteran 359 Guelph | Subject: RE: Milton Try-a-tri Great job! The more you swim open water the better you feel. I can't stress this enough fellow Ontario BTer's. Get a wetsuit and make sure it gets fitted right. The wrong size wetsuit can really slow you down, but the right one can make you a human freakin torpedo! Congrats! |
| 2006-06-07 9:25 PM in reply to: #444281 |
| Master 1534 | Subject: RE: Milton Try-a-tri Pics are up in my album if anyone is interested. |
| 2006-06-08 5:45 AM in reply to: #444956 |
| Veteran 128 Barrie, Ontario | Subject: RE: Milton Try-a-tri That would be great man. As long as im able to keep up  |
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Disclaimer: I am still working on the art of a race report. Don't expect any JeepFleebness out of me.
Saturday night: Stayed up to 10:30 to do philosophy homework. In fact I'm still doing it as I write this. I knew that I had to be able to sleep, so I took 3mg of melatonin at 10:15. It didn't help. I was tossing and turning all night long, woke up about 5 times to got to the bathroom. Oh joy, really sleep deprived now.
Sunday morning: I woke up a 6:00am to eat. I had one Pita Break breakfast pita and some water. Maybe a granola bar too. From there I Checked my bags, then showered to wake myself up. After my shower I checked my bags again, got dressed and loaded the bike/bags. Then I was off to the race site. Upon arrival I dropped off my bags and bike and headed for registration. Got bodymarked then went to look at the water. That water really did look uphill. Back in TA I put "BT" in sharpie on the back of my right calf, incase I ran to Jon (jonow6), Geoff (geoffs), Timmy (TimmyMay, whom I did not see) or other BTers. I put the race # on my brand-spanking-new race number belt, put bike shoes on bike with elastics and proceeded to the swim start.
As I was headed to the swim start it was annonuced that the water temp. was 69*, up two degrees from thurdsay thankfully. I always thought that since it was a try-a-tri there would be few wetsuits. Not so! I was one of the few crazy enough to have a George Costanza moment. Well there you go. I went well into the lake early to get my panic attack out of my system, a lesson learned from Belwood last year. They ended up delaying the start of the race by 5 minutes though I'm not sure why. From here we got out of the water and moved to swim start.