michael Hatch wrote:
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If you can't run through transition, you're cooked. If you can't accelerate after the first few minutes warmup on the bike, you're cooked.
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That triggered something in my brain and I think answered a question I've often had during a race (but forgot about afterward). I'm a novice to competing in triathlons (a handful of sprint and olympics under my belt), but swimming is probably my strongest of the disciplines. Whenever I exit the water in the swim, I was always puzzled by the number of people (most, based on recollection) that don't immediately take off running, after getting their feet under them. I definitely have thought to myself at times when passing people who are walking to T1, "you know this is a race, right??" That isn't meant to be a mean thought, I just didn't think of it in terms that they might be so gassed that they wouldn't be able to run (i.e. I thought *I* might be doing it wrong).
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tanzbodeli: Jun 25, 19 10:17