Wildflower Short Course
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cayman posted 1 year ago.
Nice report, ston_ar. Hills are good teachers and you still pulled in a great time.
Congrats on the race.
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rmuhl posted 1 year ago.
Wish I could say the same for my race. My swim was god aweful I was redirected a good five times and, even managed to swim into the pier coming in. My bike was okay, what made it special was getting to race for the first time with my new P2C. In general I don't climb well so, passing others on the climbs was encouraging. But on the run, my feet hurt like to the point that I could run about a mile and then had to walk for a bit and try again only to do the same at the next marker. I did manage to better the time of the next fella from my town which as we all know is most important part of racing. I had high hopes for my first race after a ten year lay off and, will just have to shake off my poor performance and start focusing on my next event the Escape in June.
BTW, you clocked the time I was shooting for my finishing time was one hour back.
Note to shelf: more running, more swimming
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TriOnLife posted 1 year ago.
rmuhl;67807 wrote:
Wish I could say the same for my race. My swim was god aweful I was redirected a good five times and, even managed to swim into the pier coming in.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who had that problem. I had multiple encounters with boats and probably tacked 300 - 400 extra meters on to the swim.
Bike was fine - run was really awful as in I mostly walked - ugh.
It was hellishly hot out there.
Congrats to all!
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ston_ar posted 1 year ago.
I was lucky I went early in the day. I was pretty hot sitting there in the shade, and I wasn't still out on the course. You guys that started later definitely had the added hurt of the heat. About the swim, I'm a fairly experenced open water swimmer, and I had somewhat of a problem sighting too. The bouys were a bit spread out, and with the sun still kind of low for me, it took a little extra effort in order to really get a good view of the bouys. What i started doing is looking for the boats on either side of the course and swim in between them til I could get a better bearing on the bouy.
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RV posted 1 year ago.
Nice job - Everytime out we get to learn something.
RV
It takes a long time to get good. - Scott Molina
Slow is smooth; smooth is fast. - Rich Strauss
This is my first try at a race report so stick with me.
This was my first big triathlon, and I didn’t really know what to expect, but after getting over how crowded and huge the event was it was exactly like any of the smaller tris I’ve done. Anyway, the swim start was ok, the water was a bit chilly (67 with no wetsuit) and I almost lost my goggles on an ill-fated attempt to be the first one in the water. I ended up coming out of the water second in my wave in a 0:19:59 good enough for 12th overall, not as good as I was hoping to do but I was still really fresh out of the water. After a fairly slow transition (I’m not too good at them yet) I was onto the bike and up Lynch hill. For those not familiar with the Wildflower course, immediately out of transition is the hardest hill on the course, around a 400-foot climb in about a mile. I spun up the hill and was off.
The rest of the bike course was fairly uneventful, it was very hilly (I don’t remember any truly flat spots), but I was doing better than I thought I would. The only things I was worried about were the water stops, it was my first time grabbing water on the fly, and I had someone crash out right in front of me at one of them, and my spokes breaking, I broke one on another hilly ride about a week ago. But everything went fine and I came off the bike in 1:17:52 for 152nd overall.
I knew I had had a good bike split so I was ready to fly home on the run and come out with a great time, unfortunately it wasn’t in the cards. Almost immediately I started to feel nauseous, it was probably the cliff bar I had on the bike, but it wasn’t bad enough to slow me down much. Then there were the hills. I was expecting hills but not like these. The biggest hill I have within running distance of my apartment is an overpass that takes about 90 seconds to climb. I wasn’t ready at all for 3 miles of almost straight climbing. On top of that my feet started to really hurt. I don’t know exactly what’s wrong with them yet, but they do not like climbing. So for the first 4 miles, 1 on rollers and 3 up hill I was hurting pretty bad, but after I got to the top of the hill everything was better and I picked the pace up, and finished strong in a 2:32:29, good enough for 97th overall and second in my age group.
Final splits
Swim 0:19:59
T1 0:01:49
Bike 1:17:52
T2 0:01:15
Run 0:51:34
Final 2:32:29
I’m pretty happy with my finish, I learned a lot from the experience, mostly that I need to run a lot more. I’m already looking forward to my next race, which is still a couple months away, and a whole lot flatter.