Swimming IS important! (and a funny story)
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Triguy98 posted 37 weeks ago.
LOL! That's great! The Desoto course can be brutal. Way to pull off the win- and get a free shirt!
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Sandman posted 37 weeks ago.
People don't take swimming seriously. If you swim faster, the swim is easier.... setting you up for a good ride. You can get away and are out of sight and out of mind. Big psychological boost. Those behind start racing for second if they can't see you.
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Tikal Dog posted 37 weeks ago.
:D great Job and great puking!!!! jajaja
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qb ant posted 37 weeks ago.
Great job - congrats on the win! and wear that shirt proud!
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tri-ac posted 37 weeks ago.
did you put it on?
or just use it to wipe off?
[you gotta little on your chin still...]
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UFTriGator posted 37 weeks ago.
tri-ac;83879 wrote:
did you put it on?
or just use it to wipe off?[you gotta little on your chin still...]
It doesn't matter what I did with the shirt.....the important part here is that I kissed my girlfriend before I told her I threw up. :D
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kylie posted 37 weeks ago.
UFTriGator;83884 wrote:
It doesn't matter what I did with the shirt.....the important part here is that I kissed my girlfriend before I told her I threw up. :D
You boys are all the same... Mike comes running out of T2 in Kona and gave me a kiss and then told me about puking for the whole bike ride...
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UFTriGator posted 37 weeks ago.
kylie;83886 wrote:
You boys are all the same... Mike comes running out of T2 in Kona and gave me a kiss and then told me about puking for the whole bike ride...
I like Mike.
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Tikal Dog posted 37 weeks ago.
Come on!!!!!!!!!!! you pair of pigs!!!! :D
When your girlfriends clean the toilet with your toothbrushes don't come crying about it around here!!!!!
(I have to confess though it's a bit funny! If I don't put myself in your girlfriend or kylie's feet that is)
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kylie posted 37 weeks ago.
heh... I was like huh that is a bit of an odd aftertaste... but I think I only noticed after he had told me.
I'll just have to get him back one of these days ;)
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deepbluex posted 37 weeks ago.
When triathletes say they "leave something of themselves at Kona", they aren't kidding.
kylie;83886 wrote:
You boys are all the same... Mike comes running out of T2 in Kona and gave me a kiss and then told me about puking for the whole bike ride...
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kylie posted 37 weeks ago.
deepbluex;83905 wrote:
When triathletes say they "leave something of themselves at Kona", they aren't kidding.
Well it was less the race and more the stomach flu that he had :(
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catwood posted 37 weeks ago.
Ew! You boys!
I've puked across the finish line a couple of times, but I certainly wouldn't inflict that on the bf...
Congrats on the win, Matt!
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Riverbrady posted 37 weeks ago.
Great shirt :p
And a big congrats on the win!
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MarkyV posted 37 weeks ago.
Sandman;83763 wrote:
People don't take swimming seriously. If you swim faster, the swim is easier.... setting you up for a good ride. You can get away and are out of sight and out of mind. Big psychological boost. Those behind start racing for second if they can't see you.
Hmmm.... St. Croix??? ;)
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MarkyV posted 37 weeks ago.
kylie;83886 wrote:
You boys are all the same... Mike comes running out of T2 in Kona and gave me a kiss and then told me about puking for the whole bike ride...
EEEEEEEEEWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
:)
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MarkyV posted 37 weeks ago.
UFTriGator;83738 wrote:
I figured that it was a fluke since every other race is won on either the bike or the run, but maybe swimming fast actually can let you win a race!
Ha!!! Trust me... you can win stuff from the front. :)
GO FISH!!!
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kylie posted 37 weeks ago.
MarkyV;84063 wrote:
EEEEEEEEEWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!:)
Maybe that's why I took a pic of you and not him ;)
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UFTriGator posted 37 weeks ago.
MarkyV;84064 wrote:
Ha!!! Trust me... you can win stuff from the front. :)GO FISH!!!
Yeah...I've never won a race where I wasn't in first within the first mile of the bike. Maybe one of these days I'll learn how to do that whole running thing.....
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MarkyV posted 37 weeks ago.
UFTriGator;84079 wrote:
Yeah...I've never won a race where I wasn't in first within the first mile of the bike. Maybe one of these days I'll learn how to do that whole running thing.....
I think it's over rated. ;)
Oh wait... time to head out the door for some plyos. :)
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I won a race a few weeks ago even though I got matched on the bike by two guys and outrun by both of them just because I was able to gap them by a couple minutes on the swim. I figured that it was a fluke since every other race is won on either the bike or the run, but maybe swimming fast actually can let you win a race! I got outbiked and outrun by a several guys on Saturday, but was able to hold on because of a good swim, so I guess that's good news for all of us swimmers-turned-triathlete. So here's a boring race report followed by a funny story:
Suncoast Tri at Ft. Desoto (1/3 S, 10.3 B, 3.1 R)
Swim 7:54 (into the current) for 5/400. All the people who beat me were swimmers who showed up for a triathlon, not really triathletes, so they couldn't bike or run as fast as they swam. No biggie.
Bike 25:44 @ 24.0 mph for 4/400. I did the same course in August at 25.1 mph, so it's getting pretty obvious that my legs are going down the crapper! Good thing I only have one race left! :D
Run 20:30 for 12/400. The run was little long since nobody was under 19 minutes, plus half of it was sand. So here's the good part:
I had almost a 2-minute gap on 2nd place starting the run, but I still wanted to run hard in case there was a fast old guy in a later wave that I didn't know about. Apparently I went a little too hard and was cramping a bit in the second mile. While I was cramping, one guy starting to close the gap (I'm not a very good runner to begin with, so when I'm going even sower than usual, he was able to run me down pretty quickly). I thought I was alone, but at the turnaround I saw him about 50 m back from me and I starting running harder. I ran the last 1.5 miles or so looking over my shoulder, trying to keep him back. He had the fastest run split of the day and made me run a lot harder in the last mile than I'm used to. I was able to hold him off by 26 seconds, but after I crossed the finish line I leaned over the finish chute and showed everyone what color Gatorade I was drinking on the bike! About 3 times. :D One of the business-owners from the expo came up to me and told me that his shop wanted to give me a free t-shirt for my win. Here's what it said:
Triathlon.....just puke, it tastes like chicken.
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