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Comments: Pretty standard swim...decent time and I can't really complain as I don't concentrate on this aspect of the race much  Transition 1
Comments: This was a weird one for some reason they didn't want us to set up a transition area at our bikes so we had to find our T1 bag, dump out shoes and helmet, and get them on before entering T1. The grass outside of T1 was muddy and there was not much to balance on. I didn't like this approach...I felt it took way too long and wasn't really effective What would you do differently?: just sit down and get wet to get shoes on. I was about to get really wet anyways.  Bike
Comments: This is when the rain came in. Not really hard downpour but enough to keep the roads wet and have all kinds of crap splattering up into my face. And Cold?...dayum...big huge drops of cold cold water. I was shivering on some of the hills. I tried to pedal harder to get warm but that made me go faster so I got more wind chill. I was glad to get out of the wet and warm up a bit. What would you do differently?: Arm-warmers maybe? I don't know but I was freezing. Transition 2
Comments: Wet feet going into socks are not an easy thing to do. But at this point, I was more worried about blisters and nasty foot pain than time so socks were the ticket. I don't regret it...it was a reasonable trade off. What would you do differently?: invent socks that go on wet.  Run
Comments: I felt pretty good on the run. After the turn around, I had a big smile on my face for a couple of miles because I felt good and I knew that I could do it no matter what. That's a good day. What would you do differently?: I probably could've pushed a bit more on the run early but I was being conservative. It's a learning experience and I'm glad I didn't go to the other extreme and blow up. Post race
Warm down: walk around and eat food from post race tent. What limited your ability to perform faster: experience Event comments: Good race overall...my only complaint would be that weird T1 thing. Well maybe the weather but they can't do anything about that...just have to take what the day gives you. Profile Album Last updated: 2010-04-09 12:00 AM
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Canada
Ironman
60F / 16C
Precipitation
Overall Rank = 316/805
Age Group = 40-44
Age Group Rank = 40/86
Flew from So.Cal to Montana on Wednesday and arrived at Uncle's house in the evening. The next day, we then drove up to Calgary from there and arrived at about 5 am on Friday morning. We checked into the hotel and crashed for a bit sleeping till around 10.
We got some coffee and went down to the event registration and checked in and got some obligatory Ironcrack (term new to me defining the stuff at the expo that you really can't resist buying).
We then drove out to Ghost Res. to check out the swim start and T1 area and to drive the bike course. It was cold and mosquito'ey at T1 with big drops of rain coming down. We heard on the news later that there were tornado's a couple of miles away. It was looking like it was going to be an interesting race.
The bike course was beautiful, through the rolling hills of the countryside outside of Calgary (photo 1 and 2). Pretty decent roads and a while it wasn't a totally closed course, the police kept it pretty open.
On Saturday, we got our bikes ready and our T2 bags ready and took them out to bike drop-off so they would be ready for Sunday Morning. We then spent a nice leisurely lunch with some relatives of my uncle and talked about how they could see us most on the run leg (which was right near their house). Dinner of pasta (of course) and early bedtime.
On race morning, we got up at 3:30, got body marked and took the 4:15 bus to the reservoir in the rain (photo 3) and got ready for the race. The ground was muddy and it was cold but it wasn't actually raining at that point (photo 4). I stocked up my bike with my nutrition stuff, dropped off my T2 bag and went to get into my wetsuit (since the mosquitoes couldn't bite through the neoprene). Took the self portrait with my uncle (photo 5) and then got busy.
I hit the porta-johns, watched the pros head out and then got in a quick swim to warm up. The water was cold but not freezing...nothing like some of the colder days in the pacific back home.