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csquare
Mar 6, 12 11:17
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2011 Buffalo Springs HIM. Didn't even know how "to" properly swim; I must have looked like a drunken duck dragging an anchor. Luckily the wetsuit kept me from drowning. Then 3 1/2 months later was in Kona. I'm hooked now......
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Mar 6, 12 11:18
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98 Nautica Malibu - thought I swam by a shark in a practice swim, but it turned out to be a porpoise. Scared the sh_t out of me.
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Mar 6, 12 11:25
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2009 - River City Triathlon - Logansport, IN
Came out third in the swim and realized that I would have to be superman to maintain my place the rest of the race. Absolutely hammered on the bike. What a learning experience.
Scooter
Long Beach, IN
I've gone crazy, couldn't you tell.
tigerpaws
Mar 6, 12 11:27
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I was thinking it was '87, but come to find out it was the '86 Eagle Creek Tri Indianapolis. My dad did the entire race right next to me what a memory.
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kjtri
Mar 6, 12 11:31
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1988 Griskus Triathlon (14 years old)
0.5m swim, 10.5m bike, 3m run.
Done all but 2 (years my kids were born) since then.
Panabax
Mar 6, 12 11:41
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Dallas Metroplex Sprint Triathlon 2011
400m/11mi/2mi
finished third in the Clydesdale Category (barely still a Clydesdale - down 115 lbs at race time)
I broke my collar bone a couple weeks after this race and missed the rest of my first season
#2 is Texas 70.3 on April 1
Sorry, there are no photos of me in my spandex.
Panabax
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Mr. Cleetus
Mar 6, 12 11:58
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1985 Topeka Tinman Triathlon. 1100 yd / 19.X miles /7.1 miles. The last I heard, the race is still happening.
Brian in MA
Mar 6, 12 13:27
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2000 Falmouth Sprint, Falmouth MA. Ocean swim with a decent cross current and chop, I learned the hard way how important sighting is as I kept going way off course. Bike course was open to traffic and got bogged down as it went through Woods Hole just after a ferry from the Vineyard had come in. Run finished on the beach. Fun race on a very hot day.
"You can never win or lose if you don't run the race." - Richard Butler
chris_mac
Mar 6, 12 13:44
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1986 Milton Ontario. 16 years old. 1km, 40ish km, 10km. Swam in a speedo, pulled bike shorts over top with a tshirt in T2. Steel road bike, 10 speed, no aero anything. Tennis shoes and toe clips, then changed into runners and running shorts. Didn't bring a water bottle or any food. Not sure why I kept changing outfits.
Finished in the top 30 OA. The next year I was faster and finished only top 100 OA. The sport really exploded in my area about then.
I did that one too! Boy those were the days, I remember I wore my hockey helmet because I wasn't sure if I'd ever do another one.
No one cared, rules just said you needed a helmet. Rode my Dad's 10 speed, no clue what I was doing, no spare anything!
I remember swimming beside a guy that was wearing Ray Ban Aviator sunglasses, the ones that held on over the ears!
I almost drowned laughing! Good times!
TriBeer
Mar 6, 12 13:47
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1991 Continental United States Ultra Triathlon (ironman distance), Cambridge, MD, October, 1991.
mtschnur
Mar 6, 12 16:11
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1987 Terra Haute Tri in Indiana. Olympic Distance. Crashed early on railroad tracks and limped through the run with major road rash. The race was televised and some guy dropped trou in transistion and it was broadcast on TV that night.
Grungir
Mar 6, 12 16:20
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2010 Millenium Park Triathlon, Grand Rapids, MI
Sprint... on 4 weeks notice, did it on my hybrid (Gary Fisher Utopia) and almost brought my waterskiing wetsuit!
gave me the bug.. have done 5 since, including a HIM and a Du
Ended up being the most expensive decision I have made (disposable income-wise) and couldnt be happier :)
Docmartin
Mar 6, 12 16:51
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1986 Bud Light Boston, Olympic. 18 years old then.
2nd was 22 years later.
JollyRogers
Mar 6, 12 17:15
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'91 Mission Bay Tri in San Diego. First du (then called biathlon) was a year earlier somewhere on the Gulf coast of Florida.
runitaly
Mar 6, 12 19:08
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1981 heart of Dixie Tri Louisville ms
Have not missed a year since
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Back in the day they allowed drafting, fun times
Darryl
Mike Plumb
Mar 6, 12 19:21
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Heart of Dixie is still my all time favorite race. Won that 6 out of the 9 times I raced it.
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Mar 6, 12 22:59
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1985 Nautilus Triathlon, Emerald loop Cleveland, OH
Non standard distances, ending with a five mile run. It had one water stop at the turn around with those 4oz. dixie cups. About a mile from the finish there was a drinking fountain, I wanted to stop there sooo bad. I push through to the finish and immediately ask the RD where the water is and he says, "We don't have any here, but about a mile back up the run course......"
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Mar 7, 12 5:17
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Cane Creek Park Sprint Tri near Waxhaw (just outside Charlotte, NC) in July 1991.
A couple of triathletes who occasionally joined our lunch run group at work talked me into it in June. I borrowed a bike from one them and spent a month going to the pool a couple of times a week with the other until I was able to survive a 1/2 mile of continuous swimming.
Three wave on-the-beach start = my first taste of open water MMA. Very unprepared for that. Survived the swim. Casually cruised the bike. Passed tons of people on the run. I was hooked! :)
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Mar 7, 12 5:37
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Inaugural Milwaukee Lakefront Triathlon (2009), Olympic Distance
Water was 43 degrees - I was wearing a 25 year old women's farmer john wetsuit and got hypothermia so bad that I couldn't talk or walk for more than a few steps. Got detained by paramedics for 40 minutes but finished the race! Ignoring my time spent in a blanket and my T1 time, the rest of the race went fine.
A bunch of people got severe hypothermia that day - I don't think the triathlon ever came back
dirtydan
Mar 7, 12 8:03
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2001 Jay Benson Triathlon Albuquerque, NM
Did the bike on my beater mountain bike, ran and biked in basketball shorts and a cotton t-shirt.
Rocky M
Mar 7, 12 8:13
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1988 Bud Light Hubbard Lake in Hubbard Lake, Michigan. 1K/38K/10K
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Mar 7, 12 8:40
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1996 Hickory Hills sprint. Saw it in the newspaper on Wednesday, called to make sure they took reace day registrations, threw the mountain bike in the truck and took off Saturday morning.
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Mar 7, 12 12:11
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The where and when is less fun than the "How".
I hadn't trained AT ALL, but I knew the swimming was my best so I used the impossible-to-fail strategy of "be so far ahead after the swim that no one can catch me!"
By the time I started the run I was cramping from my knees to my nipples and trying my hardest to not throw up while I walked.
And this was for a sprint tri. Hahahaha.
tomziebart
Mar 7, 12 14:31
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1981 - Penrod's Tinman Triathlon in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida!
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Mar 7, 12 14:33
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2002 Danskin in Seattle
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