Race Reports/Encouragement/Kudos - September 20 and 21
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mkymsehi
I'd rather be at Disneyland!
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Great job WISHers!
Jeff - Awesome time, old man!
I didn't beat you, but I did PR my 5k this morning! 38:15!And on a verrrrryyyyyy hilly course at that!
Way to go Michelle! PR each and every race, just like Casey does
.I forgot to mention. The guy who won the Niketown 5K, my wife said he collapsed after crossing the finish line. She though he was "playing" with the crowd, but then the ambulance was called in.
I figure he must have hyperventilated, because when I crossed the finish line, he was sitting on the curb, being attended to by the paramedics. He was coherent, and talking, which was a good sign.
Beware of those timing chip mats. I saw lots of people trip and stumble on them in the two different locations they were placed.
Finally, during the 1 mile fun run I witnessed two kids on bikes, and one guy and his kid on a Segway. I don't know how they got on the course. That's so wrong, and dangerous. Some people just don't know how to follow rules.
thndrmatt
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Finally after being home for about 11 weeks now I got to get my first tri of this stretch in. I'd done a century ride and the DL HM but the tris around here hadn't fit into my schedule until now. It was the Athlete's for a Cure triathlon at WDW.
Having run this event last year (prior to it being rebranded) as well as the Ironman 70.3 at the same location I knew pretty much what to expect. The swim was foggy, murky, and delayed. Probably the fact the sun wasn't up caused at least a 15 min delay, so they shortened the time between waves from 5 min to what seemed like about 3 min. I was in the 3rd to last wave, which is actually where I prefer. I'm such a slow swimmer that I'd rather not get run over by too many people and enjoy just being at the back to begin with. I felt like I was focused more on my form and my new every 2 every 3 alternating breathing style kept me going in a striaght line but I had some sighting issues as the fog made it pretty tough to see the buoys that were pretty far apart. Highlight for me was actually passing a couple swimmers late in the swim, as that has actually never happened before in any race. Was disappointed in my time which was actually 6 seconds slower than last year, but many were saying their times were longer than average. Was not suprised to see that I was 18th out of 18 in my age group, but was a bit surprised to see that 17th place beat me by 8 full minutes.
1500m Swim: 47:04 18/18 AG
T1 went according to plan for the most part. As usual I have a few mistakes to note. Leaving the planned hydration and bottles in the hotel fridge = bad. Forgetting sunglasses = also bad. Had to make do with some water bottles that didn't really fit in my bike cages but I was lucky enough to have some extra powerade in my bag. I felt like I was really hurrying and out of there quick, but was rewarded with again a 5 second slower time than last year. This includes a really long run up from the beach.
T1: 4:54 14/18 AG
The bike as usual was my favorite event. This year it was an entirely closed course to traffic, even though it was using main WDW arteries. Riding portions of the marathon course around Epcot and down the cloverleaf was great. A few u-turns at Wide World of Sports, Animal Kingdom, and one more out the south end of the resort and I was flying back toward transition. Beat my goal time by a minute or so even though the course was about a mile long by my Garmin, so really more like four minutes. It was obvious how far back I'd fallen on the swim, because all of zero people passed me for the entire bike leg while I made up ground on many others. Felt like my time was great, but turns out there are a lot of great riders in my AG also. Checked my overall bike rank to help make me feel better about not being top half AG, and was very pleased. Better yet, my Garmin MPH avg was over 21mph!
Bike: 1:11:13 10/18 AG 92/533 OA
Had some issues in T2 trying to take off my tri top and put on my WISH shirt, it got rolled up behind my head and was tough reaching up to yank it down. Felt like I was out of there in a hurry though, and checking my time turns out I hit my goal exactly.
T2: 2:00 13/18 AG
Both previous events at this location have led to cramps on the run. The year previous I only managed an 89 min 10k due to plenty of walking. This year I'd taken a gel about halfway through the bike, and took more gels at miles 1 and 4. The course did have approximately a half mile of grass each loop so about 16%, but this was significantly less than the 70.3 which was more like 40% grass. Some rain the day before made it a bit marshy at times, but less pounding probably helped my legs. Was able to push it a bit, and shoot for my goal run time, and was crampless throughout. My splits trailed off a bit toward the end other than a faster last mile, but was still quite satisfied with the improvement over the previous year. Was so close to getting under an hour, there's always next week!
Run: 1:00:45 13/18 AG 200ish/533 OA
So altogether was a bit disappointed by the swim, half and half on the transitions, thrilled with the bike, pleased with the run, and overall felt it was a great race and a testament to the training I'd done over the previous weeks since being home. My 3 hour goal is within reach next week, as well as my goal of being top half overall.
Finish: 3:05:54 16/18 AG 283/533 overall
Shoutout to whichever female said "GO WISH!" on the run, didn't recognize the blur and wasn't sure it was a DIS member or not... I know we had others at the event, anyone see my flaming green shirt?
Next up is another olympic next Saturday in Mexico Beach, then looking at probably doing a HIM near Jacksonville the week after.
Congrats to everyone who raced this weekend, looks like we had an army!
And special shoutout to Howard who just clobbered my best HM time thanks to some great training over the past few months, and is going to help motivate me to lower my splits during this upcoming marathon training season.
And one more for DW who suffered through a 5:30am wakeup after a long weekend of theme parking and was still there to film/cheer all day long!
Having run this event last year (prior to it being rebranded) as well as the Ironman 70.3 at the same location I knew pretty much what to expect. The swim was foggy, murky, and delayed. Probably the fact the sun wasn't up caused at least a 15 min delay, so they shortened the time between waves from 5 min to what seemed like about 3 min. I was in the 3rd to last wave, which is actually where I prefer. I'm such a slow swimmer that I'd rather not get run over by too many people and enjoy just being at the back to begin with. I felt like I was focused more on my form and my new every 2 every 3 alternating breathing style kept me going in a striaght line but I had some sighting issues as the fog made it pretty tough to see the buoys that were pretty far apart. Highlight for me was actually passing a couple swimmers late in the swim, as that has actually never happened before in any race. Was disappointed in my time which was actually 6 seconds slower than last year, but many were saying their times were longer than average. Was not suprised to see that I was 18th out of 18 in my age group, but was a bit surprised to see that 17th place beat me by 8 full minutes.
1500m Swim: 47:04 18/18 AG
T1 went according to plan for the most part. As usual I have a few mistakes to note. Leaving the planned hydration and bottles in the hotel fridge = bad. Forgetting sunglasses = also bad. Had to make do with some water bottles that didn't really fit in my bike cages but I was lucky enough to have some extra powerade in my bag. I felt like I was really hurrying and out of there quick, but was rewarded with again a 5 second slower time than last year. This includes a really long run up from the beach.
T1: 4:54 14/18 AG
The bike as usual was my favorite event. This year it was an entirely closed course to traffic, even though it was using main WDW arteries. Riding portions of the marathon course around Epcot and down the cloverleaf was great. A few u-turns at Wide World of Sports, Animal Kingdom, and one more out the south end of the resort and I was flying back toward transition. Beat my goal time by a minute or so even though the course was about a mile long by my Garmin, so really more like four minutes. It was obvious how far back I'd fallen on the swim, because all of zero people passed me for the entire bike leg while I made up ground on many others. Felt like my time was great, but turns out there are a lot of great riders in my AG also. Checked my overall bike rank to help make me feel better about not being top half AG, and was very pleased. Better yet, my Garmin MPH avg was over 21mph!
Bike: 1:11:13 10/18 AG 92/533 OA
Had some issues in T2 trying to take off my tri top and put on my WISH shirt, it got rolled up behind my head and was tough reaching up to yank it down. Felt like I was out of there in a hurry though, and checking my time turns out I hit my goal exactly.
T2: 2:00 13/18 AG
Both previous events at this location have led to cramps on the run. The year previous I only managed an 89 min 10k due to plenty of walking. This year I'd taken a gel about halfway through the bike, and took more gels at miles 1 and 4. The course did have approximately a half mile of grass each loop so about 16%, but this was significantly less than the 70.3 which was more like 40% grass. Some rain the day before made it a bit marshy at times, but less pounding probably helped my legs. Was able to push it a bit, and shoot for my goal run time, and was crampless throughout. My splits trailed off a bit toward the end other than a faster last mile, but was still quite satisfied with the improvement over the previous year. Was so close to getting under an hour, there's always next week!
Run: 1:00:45 13/18 AG 200ish/533 OA
So altogether was a bit disappointed by the swim, half and half on the transitions, thrilled with the bike, pleased with the run, and overall felt it was a great race and a testament to the training I'd done over the previous weeks since being home. My 3 hour goal is within reach next week, as well as my goal of being top half overall.
Finish: 3:05:54 16/18 AG 283/533 overall
Shoutout to whichever female said "GO WISH!" on the run, didn't recognize the blur and wasn't sure it was a DIS member or not... I know we had others at the event, anyone see my flaming green shirt?
Next up is another olympic next Saturday in Mexico Beach, then looking at probably doing a HIM near Jacksonville the week after.
Congrats to everyone who raced this weekend, looks like we had an army!
And special shoutout to Howard who just clobbered my best HM time thanks to some great training over the past few months, and is going to help motivate me to lower my splits during this upcoming marathon training season.
And one more for DW who suffered through a 5:30am wakeup after a long weekend of theme parking and was still there to film/cheer all day long!
KeenHo
Proud WISH Team Member, Runner
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Matt: Glad to be of service!
I blew the doors off of my old time, now I have to live up to the new standard I have set for myself... not an easy task at all. 
Great Job on the Tri... not in my future plans (yet). Maybe a dualathon (run/bike).
Claudine&John
Earning My Ears
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Hey Matt, John here
I had posted a couple times on the triathlon thread and was psyched to find your race report! Nice job on the bike! I was there and greatfully finished in just about the worst shape I have ever been in at the end of an event. I had a decent swim and was placed in the last wave so I had a chance to sight off some other people and I made my best attempts to stay on course but it was difficult. Keep in mind for your results too how many people in your wave had to come out of the water on a boat...I was able to watch each wave go off and there were plenty of folks plucked out along the way, so you weren't last in you wave by any stretch.
Swim time: 34:46
Not too bad but I covered the same distance in the NYC Tri in 22 mins...the conditions at this event were unique and from the looks of the results it seems everyone had a little trouble.
T1: 3:45
I felt good out of T-1 and in typical dumb-me fashion I only brought one bike bottle with me and it turned out to be too little. In NYC last summer I over fueled and as a result puked my way through the 10K, so in fear of that I figured I would minimalize the intake and get it on the run. ...BIG MISTAKE.
Bike Time: 1:11:46
It seems we were on the same course, I also didn't get passed much and as I am use to digging my way through the mtns of upstate NY I found the bike course to my liking. I did cramp a little but I attribute that to the constant spinning with no downhill cruises to break the monotony. I felt really positive coming into T-2 and I had actually slowed quite a bit over the last 5K on the bike to lower my HR and give my legs a little breather.
T-2: 1:46
My transitions are getting better as I have now (almost) mastered the shoes-off-while-on-bike thing and that has saved me many precious seconds this season. I slipped my kicks on and as I normally did all summer long, and in every race since last year, didn't add socks to the mix....BIG MISTAKE #2.
My 10K went like this, mile 1-8:10, mile 2-9:30.......mile three, 10:50..."uhh why am I shaking...?" "why is my left leg ice cold?".....I basically walked-ran-stumbled and plodded my way to the end of the 10K to finish in 3:04:33. Not my finest hour and after a quick pop into the medical tent I was ready to remove my shoes and inspect the damage. The top of both feet were covered in blisters, each toe had it's own pain and my head felt like it was going to explode. I had a goal to equal or beat my 2:48:00 from NYC last year and when the run began it was more than within reach, I just bonked. I wasn't prepared for that oppressive heat man, you Florida guys are tough as nails because that heat was somthing to behold. I feel pretty good about how I did even though I had a terrible finish but I also got to spend the whole next week at the Poly with my kids so it was a win-win. I would reccomend this race to anyone, it's laid back, has a really flat bike course, and it is definately a challenge with the heat....
I had posted a couple times on the triathlon thread and was psyched to find your race report! Nice job on the bike! I was there and greatfully finished in just about the worst shape I have ever been in at the end of an event. I had a decent swim and was placed in the last wave so I had a chance to sight off some other people and I made my best attempts to stay on course but it was difficult. Keep in mind for your results too how many people in your wave had to come out of the water on a boat...I was able to watch each wave go off and there were plenty of folks plucked out along the way, so you weren't last in you wave by any stretch.
Swim time: 34:46
Not too bad but I covered the same distance in the NYC Tri in 22 mins...the conditions at this event were unique and from the looks of the results it seems everyone had a little trouble.
T1: 3:45
I felt good out of T-1 and in typical dumb-me fashion I only brought one bike bottle with me and it turned out to be too little. In NYC last summer I over fueled and as a result puked my way through the 10K, so in fear of that I figured I would minimalize the intake and get it on the run. ...BIG MISTAKE.
Bike Time: 1:11:46
It seems we were on the same course, I also didn't get passed much and as I am use to digging my way through the mtns of upstate NY I found the bike course to my liking. I did cramp a little but I attribute that to the constant spinning with no downhill cruises to break the monotony. I felt really positive coming into T-2 and I had actually slowed quite a bit over the last 5K on the bike to lower my HR and give my legs a little breather.
T-2: 1:46
My transitions are getting better as I have now (almost) mastered the shoes-off-while-on-bike thing and that has saved me many precious seconds this season. I slipped my kicks on and as I normally did all summer long, and in every race since last year, didn't add socks to the mix....BIG MISTAKE #2.
My 10K went like this, mile 1-8:10, mile 2-9:30.......mile three, 10:50..."uhh why am I shaking...?" "why is my left leg ice cold?".....I basically walked-ran-stumbled and plodded my way to the end of the 10K to finish in 3:04:33. Not my finest hour and after a quick pop into the medical tent I was ready to remove my shoes and inspect the damage. The top of both feet were covered in blisters, each toe had it's own pain and my head felt like it was going to explode. I had a goal to equal or beat my 2:48:00 from NYC last year and when the run began it was more than within reach, I just bonked. I wasn't prepared for that oppressive heat man, you Florida guys are tough as nails because that heat was somthing to behold. I feel pretty good about how I did even though I had a terrible finish but I also got to spend the whole next week at the Poly with my kids so it was a win-win. I would reccomend this race to anyone, it's laid back, has a really flat bike course, and it is definately a challenge with the heat....
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