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Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Ru - Triathlon
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Comments: Swim time was 21:55. Pace is based on that. Run time to T1 was 1:04 based on my watch. HR during swim was 170 avg and 177 max. Since I was starting in the last group (which was the smallest) I had my pick of where to start. I decided to start closest to the beach and high step it for a while. While this plan worked out while I was running, as soon as I decided to dive in it completly fell apart. Have you tried swimming in 2 feet of water? Next time I will try the whole dolphin thing. Once I got my swim on, it went pretty good. I quickly caught up to a few trailing women (group before us) and then a few trailing masters (the group before that). The only major issue that I had was about 150 yards to go I sighted to the swim exit and felt I could hammer it. I looked up one more time about 50 yards later and I guess I had gotten a little off course. I stopped to tread water and for a split second was totally disoriented. It was almost like I was turned around. As soon as I got my bearings again, I took off. Weird.  Transition 1
Comments: AHR 184 MHR 191 Standard trainsition for me. Sit down on bucket. Socks, sunglasses and helmet on. Bike off the rack and gone.  Bike
Comments: My bike computer says the distance was 22.9 but who am I to challenge the omnipotent race director. Felt I should take the bike easy as I still had a 10k to run. Within the first 3 miles, I pulled out an uncrustable and almost choked on it. Once that was down, things went awesome until the later miles. I pulled off at mile 18 to visit with nature. With the drought and all, I figured I should do my part to rehydrate the flora. Back on the bike and hammered her home. Transition 2
Comments: AHR 169 MHR 173  Run
Comments: Same with my sprint tri, stomach did not feel comfortable for first mile. During mile 4 I got a stitch. Saw Leslie like 50 times on the run. Was passed by my swim coach Jennifer Lesser. Post race
Warm down: Chatted with Leslie, David and Mindy. Since I was racing Novice, I found out I finished 3rd in that division. Sweet! Unfortunatly, the field was very tough this year and had I raced my age group, I would have finished 4th from LAST. Ouch. Event comments: Great course and great race overall. Lots of serious trathletes. Last updated: 2006-12-30 12:00 AM
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 2007-06-02 8:03 PM |
Master  2125   |  Subject: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Ru |
| 2007-06-02 8:13 PM in reply to: #826933 |
Master 2125 | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Unofficial results. From my watch. Will update once they post the race results. |
| 2007-06-02 8:37 PM in reply to: #826933 |
Extreme Veteran 490 London | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Awesome race, mate. you happy with your performance? learn anything you need to work on for next time? |
| 2007-06-02 8:49 PM in reply to: #826956 |
Master 2125 | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Graycat - 2007-06-02 8:37 PM Awesome race, mate. you happy with your performance? learn anything you need to work on for next time?
My goals were to 1) finish 2) not walk at all during run portion 3) finish in under 3 hours I accomplished all 3. So from that perspective, I am happy. I think I could have pushed a tiny bit harder on the bike and run but I also didn't know what to expect for my fist Oly. I need to figure out if there are specific elements I need to work on other than just more time training. |
| 2007-06-02 9:21 PM in reply to: #826933 |
Elite 3491 In The Peleton | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Nice job Jonathan! |
| 2007-06-03 12:07 AM in reply to: #826933 |
Expert 1022 In limbo | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Awesome race! How cool that you were able to complete all three of your goals! |
| 2007-06-03 5:42 AM in reply to: #826933 |
Master 1432 Woodstock | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Nice job johnathan. Congrats on the 3rd place AG/nov finish! |
| 2007-06-03 12:47 PM in reply to: #826933 |
Pro 4216 Sous Mon Diadème | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Congratulations on a great race!! |
| 2007-06-03 2:10 PM in reply to: #826933 |
Extreme Veteran 407 Greenwood, SC | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Great race and awesome time!!! |
| 2007-06-03 9:00 PM in reply to: #826933 |
Veteran 123 Lexington, KY | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Great race! Especially the 3rd place, and making mince meat of all your goals. Good job! |
| 2007-06-03 9:09 PM in reply to: #826933 |
| Regular 70 | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Congrats! great job!  |
| 2007-06-04 7:22 AM in reply to: #826933 |
Expert 882 Marietta, GA | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Congratulations on an awesome race and a 3rd place finish - you rock! Sounds like the uncrustable didn't agree with you on the bike - have you tried it before? Great job on your first Oly - now you're ready to kick it up at Chatanooga! |
| 2007-06-04 7:27 AM in reply to: #827999 |
Master 2125 | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park hblackmon - 2007-06-04 7:22 AM Congratulations on an awesome race and a 3rd place finish - you rock! Sounds like the uncrustable didn't agree with you on the bike - have you tried it before? Great job on your first Oly - now you're ready to kick it up at Chatanooga! I use those uncrustables all the time on my long rides. I think I just need to figure out how to hold a half eaten sandwich, drink some water to wash it down and stay aero all during a race; then I'll be good.
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| 2007-06-04 7:28 AM in reply to: #826933 |
Master 2125 | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Oh yeah, and I updated the times yesterday with the official times. |
| 2007-06-04 8:01 AM in reply to: #826933 |
Expert 862 BFE | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Great to meet your family this weekend. Good job on the race! |
| 2007-06-04 8:07 AM in reply to: #826933 |
Expert 931 Smyrna, GA | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Awesome job. I find it hard to even eat Clif Blocks on the bike during a race, which are easy to do in training for me. I finally had to give in and start doing the gel thing for races - HR is just too high to digest anything. But that's just me Very nice race - so now you've done a sprint and an oly - when's the half Ironman??? |
| 2007-06-04 8:15 AM in reply to: #826933 |
Master 2379 Alpharetta, GA | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Nice RR and congrats on the HW!! |
| 2007-06-04 8:34 AM in reply to: #828101 |
Master 2125 | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park lawyerchick - 2007-06-04 8:07 AM Awesome job. I find it hard to even eat Clif Blocks on the bike during a race, which are easy to do in training for me. I finally had to give in and start doing the gel thing for races - HR is just too high to digest anything. But that's just me Very nice race - so now you've done a sprint and an oly - when's the half Ironman???Current plan is to do 2 HIM next year and a IM the following year:
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| 2007-06-04 8:43 AM in reply to: #826933 |
Master 1888 Winder, GA | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Great job on your race and congrats on your hardware! It was nice to chat with you and good to meet your family! |
| 2007-06-04 9:37 AM in reply to: #828170 |
Pro 6582 Melbourne FL Gold member | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Hey Jonathon, excellent race! A race with lessons learned is a great race. During a race I cannot eat solids so I rely on nutrient rich gels or fluids like Perpeteum. |
| 2007-06-04 12:19 PM in reply to: #826933 |
| Extreme Veteran 597 Atlanta, GA | Subject: RE: Tri the Parks Triathlon Race Series, Richard B. Russell State Park Good job on your first International and second tri. I guess swimming in the last wave paid off for you in the awards dept - Congrats. It was great to meet Jamie and your daughters. I sure hope they don't get in triathlons in the next couple of years... they'd both probably toast me on the swim! |
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After a false start leaving the house (forgot the camera; it took us an hour to get 5 miles from the house) we drove up to Hartwell. The Best Western we stayed at had a Circus going on. What free entertainment. The local clowns let their kids run around the hotel till all hours of the night. I didn't bother me much but Capt No Fun was ready to kill someone.
Woke up at 5am, had some oatmeal and gatorade and off we went to find the race site.
I realized the night as I was preping everything that when I registered for this race, I registered as a Novice. It didn't hit me until I read the start information that I would be starting last. Oh joy.
Stretching and little running and a little swimming.
The bikes where racked pretty tight in the transition area. I was the first one to my slot. Just after I setup the others showed up. One of folks, a girl, made a total passive-aggressive comment about me taking up too much space "wow, he's got a little hotel setup over there". Hey lady, GFY. I wasn't taking up anymore space than anyone else.