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Comments: Cold water, and I couldn't get my breath at first. Took my breath away putting my face in to breath, even doing some breast stroke at first. Next time just be prepared to do that at first. Crawl came along okay later, but the OWS made me want to switch to breast stroke to see, so I did off an on. What would you do differently?: Get in water beforehand to prepare for the cold temp. Also, estimate speed and go in that way - I'd registered first for open heat and switched and they put me at the start of the swim!  Transition 1
Comments: Didn't try hard enough to hurry. Still taking it easy not to get overwhelmed. Would take the darned GPS/watch and get it going right then. THAT is worth a few seconds. What would you do differently?: Don't stuff that remainder of a Cliff bar and then try to start. Take food on the bike and munch it there. It was a bit much to get going. Sticky and hard to breath with food in my mouth.  Bike
Comments: Slowed dramatically by chain falling off at the top of Dead Dog Hill, and again when I dropped a gel right before turn around and stopped to pick it up. What would you do differently?: Really, I'd do better trying to race it a bit, and with a few less of that sort of problem. Areobars v. Clipless? What is next? I've got cages already. Transition 2
Comments: Not trying to go fast enough. Moderately hard is a tough speed.  Run
Comments: Felt really slow at first, feeling like I'd have to consider walking, but didn't want to. Still, others going past like I am standing still! Watched my HR not to get too high. Walked a few steps through turn around water and felt much better after. What would you do differently?: Push it some more. Could have walked through transition and then run, and would have had faster average, I think. More bricks, since the first mile and a half is where I was worst. Post race
Warm down: Water, and ran/walked back to Lisa feeling great for having moved some more. Then, juice and pizza. What limited your ability to perform faster: Didn't push myself enough. Need to work on running some more. Perhaps less tapering. Event comments: Great race - the only setback was a delay, partly because of rain, and the difficulty setting bouys in the lightnening. Dead dog hill is perhaps not necessary for the route. More moderatley spaced hills would be nice. Good racers - seemed a stronger fieled than North Platte. Last updated: 2006-02-26 12:00 AM
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 2006-06-06 6:18 PM |
Veteran  184   Nebraska |  Subject: Flint Hills Triathlon |
| 2006-06-06 10:36 PM in reply to: #445444 |
Veteran 101 Kansas | Subject: RE: Flint Hills Triathlon Nice race despite your problems. I'd really have to agree on getting used to the water, & I think my 6am meal was gone by race start. |
| 2006-06-06 10:54 PM in reply to: #445444 |
Veteran 101 Kansas | Subject: RE: Flint Hills Triathlon Did you run into my daughter? She was 155 in the Javelin suit, and she placed right behind you. She mentioned somebody having a bike problem. |
| 2006-06-07 5:17 PM in reply to: #445444 |
Veteran 184 Nebraska | Subject: RE: Flint Hills Triathlon Well, I saw two guys with bike problems - flats. I lost my chain at the top of Dead Dog hill, right at the turn onto the highway. I probably exaggerated losing a lot of time though - I can't blame it too much for my "speed"  I'm sure I'd recognize your daughter - I was probably pretty blurry eyed at that point, but it's kinda funny how I look at pictures of the race now on BT and recognize folks. Next year there should be a BT get together. My wife is asking what races folks are doing this year. Tinman? I'm not sure I could convince her to go to that, but you never know. . . |
| 2006-06-08 11:01 AM in reply to: #445444 |
Expert 1092 Earth | Subject: RE: Flint Hills Triathlon Good race, chain problems on hills are such a pain. My tandem does that, when shifting down or up it will sometimes drop the chain. I have not tried yet but sometimes you can pick it back up by shifting into a higher gear. That cold water is a shocker, man first tri this year the water temp was 65 degrees. I thought I was doing great, but the water was so cold... |
| 2006-06-08 4:23 PM in reply to: #447490 |
Veteran 184 Nebraska | Subject: RE: Flint Hills Triathlon Thanks Scott. Hey, I checked out your logs and such, and I wanted to comment about your short term running speed goals and how you have that organized for speed and distance. Nicely done. Maybe I need to consider copying that. Hmmmm. Kevin |
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Blue Hills Adventures/Flint Hills Red Cross
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Overall Rank = 84/106
Age Group = 40-45
Age Group Rank = 7/10
Long delay worked to my advantage mostly, as we were camped nearby and got time for coffee and prep, but I did get HUNGRY by the 10 AM start of the 8:30 race.
None really. Not sure when it would start and wimped about a water warm-up. In hindsight, it would have helped the shock of the cold water.