There have been a few threads about “what I’ve learned at IMMOO doing _____”, I thought I’d throw in some things I learned participating (my first one)
It’s been said before, but these races would not be possible without the volunteers. I don’t know how WTC finds em all. Same for the fans. The best sign I saw (besides the two “HTFU” ones) was one by a lady probably old enough to be my mother reading “This hill hurts like great sex”. We made eye contact. It was awkward.
I don’t need a faster bike, I need to ride more. I rode my al frame road bike, and was still able to keep up with all the fancy “tri” bikes. My bike split wasn’t amazing, or even that good (6:07or so), but I didn’t do any real “workouts” during training. One time I tried doing a hill workout and I think I pulled a hammie. I also didn’t put in more than 2500 miles so far this year.
I should have practiced drinking more gatorade during training. I was pounding it down all day, and I don’t think I was dehydrated, but my stomach sure as hell hurt.
A lot of people don’t know how to get into their small chain ring going up hills. Its the lever on the left.
I don’t know how all you people do this. I’m a college student and didn’t have a job this summer, I can’t imagine trying to train with a full time job. Also I’m young, my body is supposed to be much stronger than all you old folks.
I don’t really want to do another one! I guess I’ll consider myself lucky. Overall, my time well exceeded my expectations, but I think I had more fun training then actually racing, which has never happened in any other race. I’ve decided I’m not going to race anything over 10k run for 18 months unless I set a PR in the 800Apparently I look like the “Performance Bike Guy”