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Comments: After the starting shot, I started out ok. I felt confident going into this swim, and I was shooting for roughly 20-22 mins. I started out ok. Somewhat getting into my groove. Then, aboout 150m in, I realized I had forgot to start my wath. So what do I stop. I STOP SWIMMING so that I can start my watch. Note: I have no idea why I did this. This is one of the dumbest things I have ever done. Needless to say, I lost whatever groove I had going, and the rest of the swim was an absolute disaster. Word is the swim course was a little longer than posted (100-200m). Either way, my swim still sucked. What would you do differently?: Train more. No need to even mention the watch thing. That was just stupid.  Transition 1
Comments: This time seems a little long, but these were big transition areas, and I probably couldn't have gone much faster than this. Considering the overall winner had a time of 1:12, I was happy with this.  Bike
Comments: This was the first race where I had my shoes pre-clipped into my pedals. I started off fine out of transition and started pedaling with my feet on top of shoes. I got my right foot in fine. But then with my left, one of my straps (I've got 3-strap shoes) came out of the buckle. I messed with it for a little while and finally said scew it and pulled over to fix it. Got it fixed and then headed out. I really liked this course. This was litteraly my first ride with any kind of hills. The uphills sucked, the downhills were a blast. I got up to 30mph on the biggest downhill. My chain popped off twice, both times while shifting during an uphill. I'm guess it was something I was doing wrong, probably too much strain on the chain. Both times cost me maybe a minute each to fix. I got passed more times than I could count, but I did manage to pass a few others. What would you do differently?: Train more. Need to find a hill to do repeats on. To make myself feel better, if I subtract the 3 minutes I spent fixing my shoe and replacing my chain, I would have had a +18mph avg. But, I guess they don't let you take time off for those things... ;) Transition 2
Comments: Again, no problems with this transtion. What would you do differently?: Run faster.  Run
Comments: This was a pretty slow run for me. I was hoping to go sub-9 miles, but no today. I think my overall lack of training really started to show during the run. The run is my "best" sport, but I just couldn't get it going. I had fun on this run though, there were volunteers EVERYWHERE, and they had wet towels at the aidstations which was a nice tough. Oh, there was plenty of pace booty to keep me going. ;) Too bad it was usually flying by me. What would you do differently?: Train more. That's about it. Post race
Warm down: Got my finishers medal and went and got some more fluids. Walked around for a bit and talked to Matt, Derek, and the Bears. Watched Laurie and Chris come in. Then when they opened the transition area, I went and grabbed my stuff and loaded up for the drive back to N.O. What limited your ability to perform faster: Where do I start. Lack of OW swimming, lack of hill training, lack of bricks, etc etc. Nothing outside of my control. Event comments: This was a VERY well put together race. It was all in the details. From the excellent race packet to the amount and quality of aid stations (4 for a 5k), excellent volunteers, and just overall atmosphere, this was by far the best race I've been in! Last updated: 2006-05-10 12:00 AM
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 2006-08-07 11:24 AM |
Expert  706   New Orleans |  Subject: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon |
| 2006-08-07 11:49 AM in reply to: #504159 |
Extreme Veteran 527 Round Rock, Texas | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Nice race Jeremy! I forgot my laptop and missed where everyone was meeting  I looked for some BT bling before the race but never saw anyone with the race shirts on. Keep at it! |
| 2006-08-07 11:52 AM in reply to: #504159 |
Expert 1274 Houston, TX | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Congrats on a good race. We had a lot of fun. Hopefully Kylie and I will run into you at another race soon. |
| 2006-08-07 12:01 PM in reply to: #504159 |
Veteran 180 Hawkins | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Good race, Jeremy! Sounds a lot like mine. I had a decent swim. I, too, had problems with the shoes already clipped into the pedals. I haven't done this routine since March, and it showed. It took me forever--and I have one-strap tri shoes! I got discouraged being passed so many times, but then I rationalized it by telling myelf all the passers were guys! (Well, most were...) My computer wasn't set right so I had no feedback telling me how fast I was going. Only later did I learn I had set a personal best of 18.2 mph avg--which is slow compared to others, but a milestone for me. I wish I could say I set a PB on the run, but here the heat just got to me. I can't run fast in the heat. Didn't matter, though, with so many people--I just needed to finish, which I did. I'm afraid I *completely* loused up the dinner on Saturday night. I, too, didn't bring my laptop and so couldn't re-check information. i showed up an hour late, and then it seems I misunderstood the reservation arrangment. (I thought we were all going to be in one big party under The Bear's name.) My husband and I ended up going back to Bossier, and only later that night using his Mac did I check back on the Forum and see where I'd messed up. I tried to spot the Bear on Sunday morning, but I've only seen one picture of him, so i wasn't sure which fella he was. Guess I'll have to meet the Legend next year! Give my regards to Kenner. I lived there from 98-99. |
| 2006-08-07 12:08 PM in reply to: #504159 |
Master 1551 Virginia Beach, VA | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Nice race!! Sounds like a great event; great job!! |
| 2006-08-07 12:26 PM in reply to: #504159 |
Extreme Veteran 476 Denham Springs | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon |
| 2006-08-07 3:02 PM in reply to: #504159 |
Member 45 Houston, TX | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Sounds like you had a great race! It is awesome that the swim started out so well, and it should encourage you for your next race. Nice job with the Petals clipped in- that is a challenge I am not ready for in a race yet! Hope to see you at a race sometime! PS Do you think that the swim distance rumors are true? Edited by kriley 2006-08-07 3:03 PM |
| 2006-08-07 3:24 PM in reply to: #504159 |
Queen BTich 12411  , | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon |
| 2006-08-07 6:02 PM in reply to: #504579 |
Extreme Veteran 530 Northwest Louisiana | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Hey, you didn't say hi at packet pickup!! The reason you had to wait was because the guy with the computer for the chip timing belts was running late and they couldn't let people in. We were ready for you guys though! (I'm going to get tired for repeating this on everyone's RR, but......) I am sorry that I didn't get to meet up with you guys at Macaroni Grill! Next year!!!!! And yes, I did hear from one of my tri club friends that the swim course was a bit longer, but only by about 50 yards or so. There was a big t-storm that blew by the night before and all the buoys were gone by morning. They had the GPS the day before, but that morning they just had to scramble to get everything set back up again. Sorry about all those chain problems! You still did awesome though! Excellent job! See you next year!! |
| 2006-08-07 6:50 PM in reply to: #504159 |
Regular 101 Baton Rouge | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon |
| 2006-08-07 7:26 PM in reply to: #504159 |
| Master 1315 Shreveport, LA | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Good race. I am disappointed that I wasn't there to meet you all. My wife told me about Bear getting his green card and I thought that was hillarious. I am trying to see if I can get to another race later on this year to make up for missing RiverCites. Hopefully I can meet you at one of those. |
| 2006-08-08 5:50 PM in reply to: #504159 |
Expert 950 McKinney, TX | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Jeremy, I think you did an awesome job! You held it together despite getting rattled by the watch and the shoe. Just remember that every race is a learning experience! Hey, at least you didn't flat! Thanks again for letting us bunk in with you! |
| 2006-08-08 9:04 PM in reply to: #504159 |
Champion 8936 | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Nice meeting you and nice race, Jeremy. |
| 2006-08-09 10:06 AM in reply to: #504159 |
Master 2314 Gulf Shores, AL | Subject: RE: Sportspectrum River Cities Triathlon Good race buddy. You gotta remember your new at this so don't get down on yourself. You got the take aways down and you got more races to utilize the knowledge you gained! Keep pushing. |
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Drove up to Shreveport Saturday morning. Had to wait about a half hour to pick up my race packet because the lines were so long. EXCELLENT race packet. I'm sure I'm going to forget some stuff, but lets see: race poster, 2 t-shirts, running shorts, sunglasses, socks, a sport canteen, hat, and the best part, this really NICE duffel bag with wheels and extendable handle. Everything was embroidered/stamped with the race logo. This race was worth the race packet alone.
Anyways, got checked into the hotel, and then the Bears and Derek and Laurie (DerekL and tri_it_cajun_style) showed up. Had a nice dinner at Macaronni Grill with them, Chris (ruby kid), Matt (Biseman), and Heather and Paige (mnewton's wife and daughter). Dinner was a lot of fun, especially Chris having a cake brought to Bear to celebrate his "recent US Citizenship". He asked the waitress if they could sing to him as well, but she said they didn't know any citizenship songs.
Anyways, back to the hotel and sleep.
Not much of a warmup. Walked around a bit, drank a red bull, and headed down to the beach. Water was very warm, so I didn't really need any acclimation time. Wave start, and luckily I was in the first wave.