This will be a very short description as I was very dissappointed in my performance. I was expecting at least a top 5 finish & possibly a 3rd. I had all my travel & pre-race in order & woke up race morning with a bit higher heart rate than expected, but overall felt just great. I started the swim with good energy & kept the hammer down throughout it. Good transition & on the bike with great energy & heart rate just where I wanted it with a good pace going. There was going to be 2900 feet of climbing so I was trying to hold back a bit, but I was feeling so good I was just "going with" my hard effort right from the start. Decent traffic negotiation on the single tracks with fast decents on the brief lower portion downhills & cruised the rocks & bridges, which were all slicked up from the previous nights downpour. Then it happened! 2/3rds the way up the bike climb I just bonked. Heart rate slipping down & my legs were burning on fire. I mean pain, like concrete burning as hot as the sun's core & the bike course only gets steeper & steeper as it climbs up the ski slopes of Snowbasin Ski Resort. It was all I could do to keep pedaling at all & with no downhills for any sort of recovery I was doomed. Racers were passing me left & right; at first it was my age group nemeses, then others in my ag I usually finish 10 or so minutes ahead of & finally girls were passing me. It took a lot for me to "gut up" & head out on the run. Stragely enough I started to feel better at about mile 4, but of course that is way to late in the game. It was a humbling experience, but that's enough dwelling on this one & it's back to the drawing board to re-pace myself.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
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