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Comments: Felt good on the swim. Found a pocket of water to swim without much bumping and cruised. However, I think the swim was long. It seemed that the buoys were set up to keep us farther to the outside of the lake this year. Also the water was warm, questionably wetsuit legal. The endurolyte seemed to help no cramping issues in T1 at all, which was quite nice. What would you do differently?: Swim more leading up to the race.  Transition 1
Comments: Thought my transition was great. Very methodical, but calm. Got my crap together quickly and got out of there. AHR: 160 What would you do differently?: Nothing.  Bike
Comments: I came into this race wanting to absolutely hammer the bike and I feel that I did that. I kept my legs pushing the whole time, knowing I would not have much at all left for the run. Kept my cadence between 90-100 the whole time and avg. 94 for the ride. Bettered my time from last year by about 8 minutes. Took endurolytes every 30 minutes but only drank about 1 bottle of H2O and 1/2 bottle cytomax (150 calories). Not nearly enough for as hard as I was working. Bike Power Numbers: Work: 810 kJ TSS: 104.4 (IF 0.968) Norm Power: 223 VI: 1.1 Distance: 25.066 mi Elevation Gain: 804 ft Min Max Avg Power: 0 626 202 HR: 0 172 160 Cadence: 53 111 95 Feel great that I was 4th in my age group off the bike, 2 of the 3 ahead of me finished on the podium. However, I have a whole new respect for the fact that the podium's then turned around and ran sub 40' 10k's. What would you do differently?: Drink more. Transition 2
Comments: Great T2, again fast but calm and unrushed. AHR: 165 What would you do differently?: Nothing  Run
Comments: HOT, HOT, HOT!!!! Well I knew this would likely be the consequence for going so hard on the bike. I had nothing in the tank. From the get go, I felt like my HR was going through the roof. Mile Splits: m1: 8.19 AHR: 164 m2: 9.11 AHR: 169 m3: 9.52 AHR: 164 (Hit lap button a little late) m4: 8.35 AHR: 154 m5: 10.10 AHR: 152 m6: 10.33 AHR: 145 Mile 1 and 2 weren't to bad, but then I just couldn't seem to keep my running going. Just had nothing left and began to get the dreaded bonking feeling, as if I was in another universe. Began walking between aid stations then was about 1/2 of mile 5, then was able to run mile 6 and finish strong somehow. My run was about 7 minutes slower than last year. What would you do differently?: Not go as hard on the bike. Post race
Warm down: Tried not to puke and tried to get as many of the "ice towels" on me as possible. What limited your ability to perform faster: Heat, pushing the bike to hard and a 5 week taper from IMLP. Event comments: This is a great race and I will be back next year, even if it is only to "jockstrap". Profile Album Last updated: 2007-04-05 12:00 AM
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Sun Multisport Events
85F / 29C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 131/584
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 17/57
Arrived Saturday, got registered and then went for a short bike ride in the heat and humidity. Just rode the run course, basically to run through the gears and make sure all was working okay. Had dinner w/ the BT gang, which was awesome. Nice to meet everyone face to face and chat.
Saturday morning got up 4am, brewed coffee and ate 2 CC crunch clif bars and an ensure, 2 cups coffee. Chilled until 6ish when we headed down to transition area. Set up transition, chatted with the BT gang and then got the wetsuit on and headed down for a dip in the lake. Took a gel and an endurolyte b4 swim start, to try and negate cramping issues I have been having after my race swims. Swam about 100yds then got out and waited to begin.
Average HR for full race was 161.
100 yds in the lake.