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Re: June Swim Challenge [JasoninHalifax]
I raced the Orange County Triathlon - an Olympic distance event, yesterday.
The lake water temperature was just over 74, so I elected not to wear a wetsuit because when I did Auburn, at 68 degrees, I overheated in the wetsuit. However, I now have a pretty good idea how much difference a wetsuit makes for me: Auburn: 1.5 miles, 68 degrees, 1:13/100 yard; Lake Mission Viejo: 1 mile, 74 degrees, 1:19/100 yard. I wore a Liftfoil swimskin, that has no bike pad, over a pair of biking shorts with a thin fleece pad & wore that for the whole race. Besides the wetsuit, the one other major difference was, at Lake Mission Viejo, I was in the fourth wave and had some traffic to contend with, while at Folsom Lake, we went off in one big in-water start wave and I was third overall - no traffic at all. Results aren't posted yet, but pretty sure I was first in about 24 minutes (1814 yards by GPS). Last year, with a wetsuit, I was 3 minutes faster - bad decision to go without, I guess.
I was shortly passed by a friend in my AG whom I consider one of our strongest riders, but he typically only does sprints and has been to Worlds a few times. However, I think he pushed the climb up El Toro a little too hard and I passed him back a few minutes later. I kept the lead through about 20 of the 24 miles and then had a 5 minute a-fib attack that knocked me down from 20 mph to about 15. Still, as I recovered, I was still ahead. The final climb is a small ring affair, so I shifted and my chain dropped inside the small ring and wedged itself pretty severely. (I'm gonna have to find a remedy for that). I spent 3 minutes at the side of the road pulling that bastard out and bloodying my hand doing so, and cursing a lot. Finished the ride in 1:12 - a 19.6 mph average on a pretty hilly course. Last year I was 1:09, so subtract the 3 minutes and maybe another minute for the a-fib, and I had the best ride ever there. The run is a tough, hilly thing and had me at 54 minutes for the 6 miles - pretty typical for me on that route. I can beat my friend in a stand-alone run, but he got first, someone I don't know took second and I got third. I don't know the time spread to see, if all went well, if I would have beaten him. I'm sure it would have been down to the wire and a great finish between us. They give bottles of decent wine for 1st thru 3rd. As my sister says, 3rd place wine tastes just as good as 1st place. I'm good with that.

Proud member of FISHTWITCH: doing a bit more than fish exercise now.
Last edited by: HalfSpeed: Jun 5, 17 9:34

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  • Post edited by HalfSpeed (Dawson Saddle) on Jun 5, 17 9:34