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Old 05-28-2006, 10:24 PM   #1 (permalink)
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GENESIS!

So I signed up for this race to give myself some goals and motivation.

As the day approached I was a little nervous, but not to bad.

On Friday I went down and picked up my number and race package, I was given Number 27. So 27 is my

first race number. One for the books.

With that out of the way I was free and clear till race day.

I was maybe a little antsy on Saturday but I calmed down by the evening. Shannon and I went out for sushi

and then back home for an early nights sleep. I slept awesome, I guess nerves hadn't got the better of me.

Perhaps the crappy weather dulled the senses a bit.

BEEPBEEP BEEPBEEP

It's 5am.


Up we get. quick shower, some oatmeal and yogurt, little bit of a protein shake. I mixed 3 bottles. 1

protein, 1 water and sugar and one straight water. Out we go. We have to be there at 6:30 as Shannon is

volunteering with registration.

We pull in to the parking lot and there is a few people there, the butterflies I exprienced on the drive up are

all but gone. They are alleviated even further when I get out and rack my bike. Sure there is some nice

bikes, decked out triathlon jobbies, but there is regular road bikes, mountain bikes and even some that

make ninjas tri bike from last year look high end.

Fitness wise the people ranged from very large to sleek elite eMartin like swimmers. I was pretty

convinced I would not be last. I went over to regsitration and got my body marked with my number. Hey

look Shannon is marking numbers, so she got to write a couple big black 27s on me.

Next I picked up my timing chip and went back to set up my transition area. I had originally brought a towel

to put down and a bag to put over that but the ground was soaked so I just put the bag down. If I had to do it

again I would put the towel down on the garbage bag. I had some leakage so my running shirt was pretty

wet when I put it on. With the transition set I wandered around till they opened the pool building.

With about 40 minutes to kill I walked the run transitions and any areas I was unsure about. In the end I

had a pretty good idea of where I was going. No problem.

Once they opened the pool most of us went in to warm-up or get ready. The pool had a full locker room,

which was also pretty cool.

EVENT #1 THE SWIM! - Feel the morning chill.

Total Distance 500m, 20 lengths of the 25m pool, 4 per lane, rolling start.

We were divided into waves based on our swim time. slowest to fastest, I was pretty middle of the road

here. The first wave was mostly the larger people I had mentioned earlier. Alot of people doing breast

stroke and back strokes. As we progressed into wave 2..3 and 4 you could watch more and more people

switch to a freestyle stroke and better breathing patterns, by wave 5 and 6 alot of bilateral breathers. The

annoucement came for wave 7 to be on deck and so there I went. Into the change room, quick shower and

into line. I progressed through the line pretty fast. Suddenly I was first in line. The caller calls one more

for lane 6, the furthest lane from the timing mats. Oh well. Over I go, BEEP! GAME ON! Goggles down I hit

start on the timex. Into the pool I go.



I start off feeling pretty good, and pass someone pretty quickly, I continue swimming strongly, after every

50m, you are back at the lap counter, who offers you encouragment, "Good strong start!" Off I go again.

25m down, I am close to someone who just left, I take a second to adjust the goggles and off I go again,

after a few laps I end up right on a girl and I touch her feet. I back off hoping to get a pass at the end of the

length. I back off to much and she is gone before I get there. 25m later I haven't backed off as much and

she lets me by this time.



After all this passing and such I have NO CLUE what lap I am on, thank god they had lap counters. I finish

another 50ms , "12 done she says." Cool now I have a clue. I get to my last two, the flutter board is placed

in to alert me I am on my last two lengths. Off I go. 50m later she says, "Your done!" Out I go. I stumble

a bit, but oh well. I get half way across the pool width and check my timex, 12;24s. Wow that's great for me

I think! Outside I go!








EVENT #2 THE BIKE! - Hammer up that hill.

Total Distance 16km, 4 laps of a 4km course.

I exit the pool and cross the next set of mats and run across the grass into T1 barefoot. I slow considerably

because of the gravel on the pavement but I get to my bike and I grab the helmet and start putting it on.

CRAP. I put the helmet down, I grab my shirt, on it goes, I grab my jacket! Gold! I grab my helmet, my

friggin' chin straps are tangled! I fiddle with it and get them to go finally! I grab the hand towel, drop it,

spray off my feet, dry them, socks, shoes! YAH! We are ready to go!



I grab my bike! Apparently I am too tall I can't fit the seat under the rack. I take about 5 seconds and decide

on a plan of action. I drop the seat and pull out the bike and re-set it! I run the bike off to the road, mount up

and AWAY I GO!







I jam up to the big gear on the front and the small on the back and push down the first small hill. I am up

the next incline, drop the gears back a little and keep the cadence up. I am passing people pretty easily.

No problem!

The cycle is going well, the forerunner clocks me in at 27kmph average on the course. The only guys to

pass me were tri-bikes. maybe 5 or so passed me. Overall the bike was pretty good, not alot of wind, I was

already cold and soaked so I did well enough not getting any colder. I lost my cadence once and had to

work to get that back but in the end it wasn't the end of the world.



EVENT #3 THE RUN! - Like I knew I would.

Total Distance 3km, 300m run to lap course. 3 800m laps, 300m run to finish.

I dismount and run the bike back to T2. Crap my legs were bad during my brick....but not THIS BAD!. I

decide to run the bike, just on the getting my legs back merrit. I get back to the rack. I drop the seat, I

re-rack it. I drop the helmet, grab a quick sip of sugar water and I remove my cycling jacket so my number

is visible on my running shirt. I am off again!

I cross the next set of timing mats and I am off on the 3km run. I am SLOW. I finally get the forerunner

switched to run and get it to call up my pace, so I have a clue. My legs feel like hell and I feel sorta

cramped and partially out of fuel. I keep the run up though. I get to the lap section pass the pylon and run

down the path, 200m later it switches to road and I complete the first half lap to the aid station/turn around.

My legs feel better already. I run back to the pylon, 1 lap down. Around I go and back. Pace has improved

alot and by the time I am off the path I pretty much have my legs back again. It's only 3km I tell myself and

I get into a good pace. I finish the 3 laps and run my last 300m to the finish. I get to the last leg and turn on

the jets as much as I personally dare on the slick/muddy grass. I come across the line! OH YEAH!. The

Beautiful Shannon is waiting as a volunteer to hand out metals, but I cross the line into her arms for my

medal anyhow! woo hoo! Race over.



THE AFTERMATH!
Well it's done. T1 Sucked. I lost a lot of time here. Next time I will have the seat in a lowered position so I

can pull the bike out faster. I will also be ready to put on my shirt before the helmet. This will all be good.

What I didn't like is the timing mat set up. The bike leg essentially seems to cover the time I cross the first

mats out of the pool, the Bike and the mats as I cross into the run. IE T1, Cycle and T2.

Alot of guys had long plastic totes as their T area, these would have been great today with all the rain!

THE TIMES!

I quickly looked at my times,
Swim: 12:48: Totally happy with this
Bike: 46! Ugh This sucked. I consulted the Forerunner after. It said I did 18km in 35minutes. The bike

course wasn't exaclty what they showed us on paper, the detour could have easily been an additional

500m. Either way for me 35minutes for 18km is outstanding, so I guess I am ok with it. I lost alot of time in

the Transition area here
Run: 18 minutes. I would have been happy with 20. I'll take 18 all the way to the bank, not a PR, but I wasn't

really expecting one either.

TOTAL TIME: 1:17

You guys have been a great inspiration to me with this triathlon. I had wanted to do one since Fish finished his last year. Now I have. The support I got here was outstanding, which of course it always is!

Thanks again!
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Old 05-28-2006, 10:44 PM   #2 (permalink)
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AWESOME JOB!

That feeling of doing the first one is awesome. I'm glad there were bikes worse than mine. I may never live that bike down.

I hear you on the bike/run transition. I had no legs whatsoever and ran the bike as well.
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Old 05-28-2006, 10:54 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Just went back through the training log....

My old 500m PR was 12m41s, so at 12m24s on my timex I am gonna call that a new PR for the 500m in this race.

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Congrats man... great work!
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Old 05-29-2006, 08:41 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Great job, Og. I was thinking about you yesterday while out on a bike ride of my own! Too bad the weather wasn't better, but looks like you did great. And a new PR on the swim...that is awesome. (jerk)

Your chronicle of the event was great BTW. So, now that you've had some time to reflect...what do you think of the triathlon gig? Ready to consider signing up for another event this summer?

Congratulations, bud...you are now an official TRIATHLETE!
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I would like to do a Sprint length, but I do not think that even the money for reg fees will be available with me going back to school.

Sacrifices eh?

I figure to do a sprint I would def want the tri-shorts AT LEAST. Currently I think I could do a Sprint level with my current conditioning. I honestly feel our bike course was 18km, not 16km. So tack 2 more K on there and we are at 20. The run? Yeah I coulda done another 2km at the pace I set for the majority of the race. So that would put my time to maybe a half hour on the 5km run. Swim I am unsure of. I suspect I could have maintained pretty close to my speed. I am still quite surprised by the swim time.

Other Misc thoughts. On the second length I thought to myself that it was weird how different this pool felt compared to my regular pool.

There is a Sprint length at the end of June, an open water swim, couple of laps around a smallish lake in one of the neighborhoods. It is tempting, but I doubt I can afford it, well ok I can't get race fees and short money together as extra income in a month hahhahah what a joke!

Doing a bit more research on the previous events, I believe previous to this year they had a truer 4km loop and it looks like it was only 3 loops and not 4. This means my Bike time might not be nearly as bad as I think, I will have to wait for the official results to go up so I can tell where I placed out in the pack.

Either way now that I am rested it is pretty much dominating my thoughts and I will in the future do another one. I suspect this one again next year at the very least and in the future when I am better employed I would hope to get up to at least an olympic type level.

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Glad to hear you liked it. I understand about the $$. Start pinching those pennies to feed the addiction!
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OG, great job man! I'm so pumped for you. T1 always sucks, and it just gets harder once you have to start battling a wetsuit. It'll always be that way, so you got the first one out of the way. Great job on the PR in the pool, there's always something to be said for how excited you are to be at the event (and having the missus there to cheer you on!).

Don't sweat the bike time, they'll probably still be making some adjustments. And I can't imagine, even if you had a few rough transitions, that you lost over 10 minutes in transition. So their time was probably off a bit.

And you had your first battle with linguine legs. No matter how many bricks you do, you never practice at the speed you push yourself at in the race. It's great when you get your legs under you.

Great job Triathlete. Hope you do many many more!

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Well ok probably not 10 minutes, but I wouldn't be shocked if I spent a good 5 or 6 in there after it was all said and done.
I'll have to see other people's bike times to know how good/bad mine was. The time on the forerunner looks decent I know that.
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Awesome work OGDEI, you are now officialy a Triathlete......

Just a thing I noticed..um BOARD SHORTS?

Again Great Job, now when is the next one?
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I couldn't afford tri shorts, but I wanted something I could wear all the way through that had a decent inseam for running and cycling.

TA DA!

Official times are up....

1:17:27 27 Keith JOHNSON 33 Calgary 12:41 46:42 18:04

Overall.
http://www.multisportscanada.com/Res...6T3Overall.txt
Age group.
http://www.multisportscanada.com/Res...Age_Groups.txt

I am much happier with my cycle time now.

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Thats cool......but when you do get some, it will be a world of difference in the swim. Watch out though, like many people have said, this can be an expensive hobby.

Awesome Job......
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Hmm Shannon just observed that my cycle time, the one I considered my weakest event was actually my strongest....

swim place: 157
bike place: 108
run place: 126

Crazy. I'll take 108th out of 285 on my mountain bike all the way to the bank.
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Ok so I downloaded my course maps from the forerunner.



The black line is the originally mapped 4km course. The forerunner says 4 laps is 18.17km to the transition area.

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When is the next race?
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Congratulations, my brother! That is absolutely awesome! That rush of crossing the line the first time is going to stay with you for the rest of your life. You are now a member of a very exclusive club. You are a triathlete, and you earned every bit of it. It is so cool to have another member in our growing "club".

Don't sweat the little things--the first time is a HUGE learning experience. It sounds like you learned a lot, and you'll be back. My advice re: shorts, though, is to get a pair of Speedo long shorts. They are hydrodynamic in the pool, take care of your package (you don't need a lot of padding for a sprint) on the bike and even give you a little compression on the run. Well worth the $15 I spent last year to get them (on sale!).

I am so impressed, and so proud of you! Congratulations, again, my brother!

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Thanks Fish, you planted this seed last year, it just finally matured.

I'll take a look for the speedo long shorts and see what I can come up with. They are just a long legged tight speed suit?

Glad to stand among you guys!

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These are what I have Keith:

http://www.speedousa.com/index.cfm/f...-82e76746d09a/

I found them on sale for $15 as well...

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Great job Og!!!!!!
Hooked on tri's now?? How differnt is what you did from a sprint one?

Looks like you had fun, and obviously did great on your first time! Congrats again,

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Mine: 500m, 16(18)km, 3km
Sprint: 750m, 21km, 5km

I'll def do more, just not sure when money will allow it. If I can find shorts like Rob and Eric have it may make it more achivable this season.

We shall see.

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I call anything shorter than an olympic distance a sprint, so I'd say you did a sprint OG. Just me though

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Congratulations, Og! I know it feels great to complete a goal that you set for yourself. Great job!
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