Big Rock Olympic Distance Triathlon
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Comments: Lap 1 Who thought it was a good idea to put all the women, clydes, military and relay in one wave?! Pretty rought for the first lap, kept getting a bit off course. Lap 2 thinned out a lot, as about 2/3s of the athletes were in the sprint race and only swimming one lap. Felt really alone out for a bit, finally found someone to draft off of for awhile. He kept getting off course and I would notice, correct then he would notiice and run into me, then I'd get back in behind him and go back to drafting. Not a very good swim and started getting really rought from boat wakes near the end. Didn't feel in the swim groove until it was almost over. What would you do differently?: Start in a different location. Sight more to start with. Not suck at swimming. Transition 1
Comments: Long azz run up the sand to transition. Waterdogg said he clocked it as .25 mile. I got out of the water, hit the mat and ran all out to my bike. In previous races I had sucked at transitions so all week I had been visualizing a good T1 and praticing. I nailed it. My T1 was flawless....kinda (see bike) What would you do differently?: Not run up the beach as fast as I did. Bike
Comments: I get out of the transition area feeling really good, HR is high from a run up the sand. I run up to the mount line, swing my leg over my bike and almost puke. My world felt like it was tunred upside down. I was standing there straddling my bike trying to not fall over. I hear "on your left" and I just stood still, as soon as I was passed I looked over my shoulder, see that Im clean and get the heck out of the way. I realized there is NO way I can saefly ride my bike I am so dizzy. I think about ChrisM and what he went thru at IM AZ. I start to panic and consider pulling myself out of the race. So much for a blazing fast T1. I took a deep breath, tried to calm down and mount my bike again. Just swinging my leg over is hard to do without falling over. Okay, m ore brething finally on the third try I am ok I get on my bike clip in and off I go. I look down my HR is 160! Fantastic, my race plan was to keep my HR at 140 or below on the bike. I take it out easy and after two minutes it's still at 160 but my percieved effort feels easy. Ok, fine if thats how it's gonne be, thats how it's gonna be...Put it in the big ring and hammer out of the Park on to the main road. Passed a lot of people doing the sprint, up the little climb and hammered it at 35+mph back down and finished lap 1 with an average speed of 17.1 mph HR never got below 150. Very odd since my LT is about 148 on the bike. At the start of lap two I find myslef entirely alone out there. Totally alone! Kinda hard to stay in the feel of racing and not turn it into a training ride not seeing ANYONE out there. But I usually ride pretty hard on my training rides so it's no so bad. I feel like I am DFL :( I get out of the park and back on the main road, there is a lot more traffic but the cops are totally holding traffic up at all the big intersections until I pass. This totally makes me feel like a rockstar and I make sure to hammer thru them and hollar "THANK YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!" To the awesome cops out there. Seriously, this was the highligt of my day. If I could get these guys to hold up traffic on my training rides. My HR has come down a little but not nealy as much as it should have, HR was about 10-15 BMP higher than percieved effort. Very odd. I'll chalk it up to a terrible swim and a bad run to T1 and general suckage. What would you do differently?: Not race by HR. Er, I guess I didnt! ;) Transition 2
Comments: Come back to T2 and it is almost empty...WTF!? I see someone a rack over packing up their stuff "please tell me you did the sprint" They did and they were so sweet "you're doing great" I said "I can smell the BBQ I don't want to run I want to eat" they laughed. As with T1 I had spent a lot of time visualized and rehearsing T2. Went ok. Had some more balance issues putting socks on. What would you do differently?: not freak out over the T area being empty Run
Comments: I suck at running. I suck so bad. It's not even funny. The first mile was ok saw Tim and that was awesome. He caught me off gaurd tho :) I was deep in thought about how much suckitude I posess. This was terrible and awful. I got very upset thinking how I have a HIM in 10 weeks. Thought seroiusly about withdraing for it and thinking about how much $$$ I would lose in race fees and hotels. I can't even run a decent 10k after a 25 mile bike ride, I have no business doing a HIM. Who am I kidding, I can't run a decent OPEN 10k.... It hurt and I was suffering and fighting off crying. When I hit the dam I mentally checked out and just fell into my training pace. Which is slowwwwwwwwwww. I just kinda zoned out and was looking at the water and feeling peaceful. At least I no longer wanted to die, I was just getting it done. I hit the turn around and told myself I would pick it up for the last 2 miles. I tried but the teeny tiny rollers were killing me. Two women passed me and I made a sad atempt to hold them off. I was able to run the last .1 mile and finish strong or fake it anyway. What would you do differently?: Not mentally fall apart. Even still, I probably couldnt run that much faster. Maybe not let my high level of suckitude get me down mentaly. Sadly, it was hard to walk by the chick who passed me at the last few hundre meters. I had to fight the urge to run up and push her over. I really wanted to. It's not her fault she's better than me however. Post race
Warm down: Got some food with Tim, Matt and Faeron. Stretched. What limited your ability to perform faster: being about 25 pounds overweight (still) and metally checkin out at mile 3. Last updated: 2008-05-02 12:00 AM
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SAW Sports Productions
66F / 19C
Overcast
Overall Rank = 18/23
Age Group = W30-34
Age Group Rank = 4/6
Major Disclaimer!!!
This is going to be a hard (and long) race report to write. I am very unhappy with my performance. I do have to write it so please feel free to skip any/all parts, I won't be offended.
Couldn't sleep very well. Woke up at 2am! Had been binge sleeping all week knowing that I wouldn't sleep well the night before.
So I left my house super early, park opened
Got the to the race site way early so I grabbed some coffee and fig newtons at a gas staton.