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Comments: Started with 175 other women. WASHING MACHINE! Plus we were headed right into the blazing morning sun with about 18" of fog sitting on the lake. Could not see the first buoy at all until about 50m away. Had a terrible time finding open water. Was always getting swam into, or swimming up and around others. Never felt panic-y, but just could not get a rhythm going at all. Frustrating beyond belief just because I have been doing so much swimming this summer. Swim time also includes the 300+m run up the hill to the bike pen. What would you do differently?: Start further up the front of the pack. I need to go out strong and stay up ahead of the mob. I need to do more intervals while I am doing my open water practice - then I can actually put on some speed to get past people and not feel like I am compromising my energy for the rest of the swim. Transition 1
Comments: Had a LOOOONNGGG run in my bike shoes from far end of bike pen to mount line. What would you do differently?: Nothing Bike
Comments: Ridiculous lady made about 10 of us wait 30+ seconds to allow traffic to go before we could cross the road and get on our bikes. GRRR!! Passed lots of people. I was the first person back to my bike rack! There were at least five bikes gone when I got there from the swim, but I was the first back!! Felt great all ride and knew I would be okay for the run (which I knew would be slow with my grouchy back) What would you do differently?: Nothing. Transition 2
Comments: Again LOOOONNGGG run through the bike pen with my bike shoes on. What would you do differently?: Not sure I can learn how to take my shoes off while I am still riding. Hmmmm. Run
Comments: Slow run, but I expected that. This is a hilly run, but it is beautiful. What would you do differently?: Not blow out my back two weeks before the race :/ Post race
Warm down: Walked around with husband, mom and dad, and Erin's significant other, Derek. Erin came through about half hour later. What limited your ability to perform faster: Injury. Not enough swim intervals. Event comments: Wish that we had our age marked on our calves. I didn't know who I was supposed to be chasing during the run. Woman who finished 10 seconds ahead of me was in my age group - I had no idea. Otherwise, this is an awesome race! Last updated: 2013-09-08 12:00 AM
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2013-09-08 10:51 PM |
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United States
65F / 18C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 64/339
Age Group = 25-34
Age Group Rank = 6/39
I yanked a bunch of my lumbar muscles two weeks ago and almost didn't race. Pretty much had to cease training for two weeks leading up to the race. Was a little concerned about the run, but swim and bike have not bothered it at all. I knew going into this that my run would be disappointing, but my training all summer was very good, so I hoped it would carry me through.
Had packet pick-up on Saturday afternoon, so picked up friend Erin and we got our stuff. Met my parents, who came into town to watch, and husband for italian carbo-load feast at Spiros for dinner. This was the first tri I have ever done where I got to sleep in my own bed the night before. So nice! Had no pre-race jitters until 2:30am. Woke up feeling rested and prepared to go.
Erin and I were a few racks away from each other, so we got our stuff settled and headed down to the water to get our breathing right. This is a big local event - almost 400 people and only two swim waves. Yikes!! There was also a lot of loose gravel on the swim run-out because we have had a couple of big rain events that washed away a bunch of the dirt on the hillside. OWIE.