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Triathlon Memphre - Triathlon1/2 Ironman
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Comments: I hate two gels before the swim. I really good swim for my current ability. Not much to say here. I got in the water and swam as good as I possibly can. The lake was choppy, nothing huge but still at some point it was tough to see the buoy. When I got up and saw 38:xx on my watch I was pretty happy! What would you do differently?: I need to learn the technique of swimming more, I try to force my way through the swim every time but it doesn't seems to help at all since I do not see any kind of improvement  Transition 1
Comments: I forgot to unattached my shoes before the race, newb mistake ... What would you do differently?: I need to practice the put my helmet on and remove my wetsuit  Bike
Comments: This course is far from where my strength is. A ton of hills and climbing and it seems like you can never get into high speed and hammer the bike which is probably my strength. I tried to race with my brain today, and figured that hammering the hills was a bad idea on 90km. So I mostly took it easy, trying to keep my heart rate under 150. I was at 32km/h at the turnaround and slowed damn a little bit on the way back to finish it with an average 31.3km/h. Not a bad day at work with 3300 feet of climbing :) I had 3 honey stinger waffle and a cliff bar on the bike. Transition 2
Comments: Good transition, a bit longer because I took the time to put socks on for the run, which was a brilliant idea :)  Run
Comments: Great run for me today, my best run ever in a half ironman and my third faster half marathon ever. I started fast a little bit, first km @ 4:18 but my quads yelled at me fast to make sure I would slow down. I decided to settle into a 4:45 pace and stuck to that for most of the race. The 4th lap was a bit tougher but I knew I was about to finish so I pushed as much as I could. I knew I was going to PR by 15 minutes or so so there was no way I would slow down :) When I was about to finish I asked my daughter to run down the chute with me. She almost overran me :p What would you do differently?: Not much, I am so happy with my run this season. I improved a lot and it pays off on days like today! I ran the half mary 18 minutes faster than last year on the same course. Post race
Warm down: Sat down and drank chocolate milk :p What limited your ability to perform faster: Training as always :p Wish I was paid to train ;) Event comments: Awesome race as usual, they really do a great job! Last updated: 2011-04-22 12:00 AM
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 2011-08-01 9:06 AM |
Elite  3595     Quebec, Canada |  Subject: Triathlon Memphre |
| 2011-08-01 9:10 AM in reply to: #3623369 |
Royal(PITA) 14270  West Chester, Ohio | Subject: RE: Triathlon Memphre Sweet PR! Holding back on the hills during the bike was wise, your run was FANTASTIC! |
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23C / 73F
Sunny
Overall Rank = 62/151
Age Group = 40-44
Age Group Rank = 10/24
I got up early, hate a good breakfast to fuel for the day. Then packed the car and headed to the race site. When I got there I heard the most wonderful news of the day. The race was wetsuit legal for the long distance folks :)
Not much, I ran a little bit then put on the wetsuit and swam to make sure everything was feeling ok