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Overall I believe it was a very well run event. The two others that competed in the event thought the same. Josh Gohman competed in the Olympic (1500m swim; 40k bike; 10k run) and Todd Nord competed in the Sprint (750m swim; 20k bike; 5k run) with me. The swim was an out and back for the sprint two laps for the Olympic . But let me go back to the beginning. We showed up at packet pick up and it was run as good as any I have been to then walked around and through the transition area. HITS used the towers for the run, bike and swim finish. It looked like what I expect to see at a 70.3 or a full ironman. They also used transition boxes as opposed to the X's with a pole between them. I had a seat with my number and name on it. So all that pre-race stress of setting up your AO was not there. I knew where I would be and what my AO was. It made me feel like I was in a major league race. We drove the bike
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Race for The Booty HOP The recent announcement of the First Annual Race for The Booty HOP is one of our most exciting announcements ever. This is intended to be one hundred times the blast of our usual socials. This event will take over the five awesome watering holes at Grand Plaza in Carrollwood. Each HOP ticket will include five drink tickets that will get you a discount so deep at each place, one of them will be free and the rest chump change. After that all places will still offer HAPPY HOUR— ALL NITE LONG. At the opening venue will be complimentary appetizers to all HOP ticket holders. Along the way will be three Minute to Win It Challenges that you will have a recorded time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHWXJ3DtlyU The male and female winners will receive a grand champion prize. This will be a great fundraiser for our triathlon team. Please have your friends sign up at active.com http://goo.gl/SMmC9 Members of Team Psych whose membership is current will be able to get tickets from the members listed on the poster at a discount.
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course and it looked like it would be a nice ride (more hilly than this flatlanded from Tampa is use to). We had a racers meeting that talked about the whole race and told us of changes, one was that the run was no longer a loop but out 1.55 and back and the other was that it would start at 0715 for the Sprint (all males then all females 3 minutes later) and then the Olympic would start at 0745. When we got back to the Hotel, we found that we had tritats numbers. We are all numbered up before we showed up in the morning. I set up my transition area and did my pre-race prep and ritual. The swim was an in water start, you walked to the 1st of 4 swim buoy. It was a shallow swim I could stand up to about the 3rd race buoy. It was wetsuit legal but the water was not cold and you could have swum without. Then when you finished the swim you ran maybe 100 yards under the Swim tower into T1. The one area I thought might be a problem would be the bike in and out as it was the same tower. But the issue I was worried about never showed it face to me as I was done with the bike before the Olympic swimmers were not even out of the water yet. The bike was a good loop and it was open but it had
plenty of officers and volunteers to keep you save. The course did show some weakness in my training. I have not trained on hills enough. As I came in for T2 I had no bottle neck and got right in. As I headed out for the run I realized very fast that I broke the number one rule on race day. Don’t do something new that you have not trained with before. Mine was my shoes. I had a new pair of shoes that I had run with a couple of times but I changed out the insoles and did not try them on. My shoes were very tight to the point my feet were cramping up and I had not even run 500 yards. The run was a trail run, on dirt. It was not like running on the beach but the dirt was loose. Our times are below: PositionBib #NameStartSwimT1BikeT2RunFinish 27431Price, Russ7:14 AM0:18:190:02:220:37:430:00:430:25: 021:24:12 113423Nord, Todd7:14 AM0:37:230:03:000:43:470:02:220:28: 571:55:31 26152Gohman, Joshua7:44 AM0:34:400:02:101:16:050:00:470:47: 182:41:02Olympic Overall I was 27th and Todd was 113th out of 126 Sprit competitors and Josh was 26th out of 101 Olympic competitors and
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Nicole Davis, Russ Price, Keri Eichen Todd Nord Eric Harmon Prepared to be boarded Mark Davis
I signed up let's crush this! Nicole Williams Argh! Aye, aye captain. I'm already set to pillage Desoto Beach with me mates of the skull and crossbones. Domination is me only expectation. Sam Sundusky
the HITS for there series awards each age group so I was the fastest for my age group (I was in an age race of two… lol) and everyone got a finishers medal. They also have an open distance and both the half and full distances. This is a USAT race and will be sending the 5yrs age groups for the USAT overall ranking. If I were going to be here next year I would do this race again. I know Josh is planning on going next year and might even go
The HITS 70.3 triathlon in Ocala this weekend was outstanding. I had the best race of my life and I was really happy with how well the race was organized. Many thanks have to go to the people who put this race on. From the time I picked up my registration to when I left after the race the people were fantastic. It was great to meet Mark H. Wilson in person, and he was always smiling and very helpful to anyone who needed anything from him or had questions. Then there are the Star Exiner Walters clones. The Hits series has several clones of Star. :) They have one for registration, one for the swim exit, one for transition, and at least one on the run course running a water stop. They are everywhere, and always happy and helpful.
to the Naples race. This race event review was graciously provided by one of our new members, Russ Price who came to join the team for free as he is an active military member currently stationed at Mac Dill. His first experience with Team Psych was at Race for the Booty Triathlon. Once again, thank you Russ. Mark Davis
Joe N (? I'm sorry I can't remember Joes last name because I wanted to friend him on FB, but I can't find him) was also fantastic. On Saturday when we had our mandatory bike drop off Joe had no problem with us bringing our bikes on race morning if we wanted to because it was probably going to rain. Which it did on Saturday evening. Literally everyone you saw associated with the race always seemed to be cheery. I can’t say enough good things about them. The race. I went into this race feeling undertrained and overweight by about 10 lbs. It’s been a rough 3 months and my training suffered so I didn’t have high expectations for this one. I figured I’d give it my best shot and be happy with however it
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turned out. It turns out I beat my previous personal best by 23 minutes and had my best race ever. The swim. The swim was in lake Weir. I much prefer saltwater events, but as far as freshwater swims go, this was the best one for me. It was in an actual lake and not a retention pond or farm livestock pond. And the water wasn’t black. The water temp was in the low 70’s so it was nice. The swim course was a straight out and back 1.2 miles which I liked. The fewer turns the better if you ask me. My time was 40:03, which was a bit slow for me, but not too slow. The only suggestion I would have would be to request wetsuit stripers. For some reason I had trouble getting my wetsuit off this year. Transition 1. Something I really liked about the way HITS has transition is that everyone had a stool. I’ve never seen that before and as it turned out I needed it to get my wetsuit off. Transition was set up and run very well by Joe and company. My T1 time was 3:01 amazingly considering my wetsuit problems. The Bike. The bike course was OK overall. The sheriffs depart-
ment did a good job at the intersections they were in. The course wasn’t rough except for a few short sections. The course had rolling hills which were just fine. I was able to do the entire course in the big ring, so the hills were fine. The traffic was my only concern. There was more traffic than I’m accustomed to on this race. I think it’s probably because of the size. Ironman events have upwards of 2500 racers and they close off entire lanes of traffic for the bike. This race had about 110 people, so we were spread out so thin that most drivers probably didn’t even know there was a race going on. I only had to stop once, which considering that it was a major intersection on a highway it’s not so bad. There were stretches that we rode on the shoulder of the highway with semi-trucks passing that I wish we didn’t have to do. If it’s at all possible to make the course a little farther removed from traffic then that would be my suggestion. I was also chased by two dogs, but that’s not to be unexpected from time to time. One actually caught me on the heal of my shoe, but
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no harm done. I wonder, and this is a serious question, if we are allowed to carry mace on these races? My strategy on the bike for this race was to take it easy and save something for the run. In my previous two 70.3 races I went too hard on the bike and ended up paying for it dearly on the run. This time I sacrificed about 9 minutes or so on the bike and it paid off big time on the run. My bike time was 2:49:42. A little conservative for me, but it paid off on the run. Transition 2, uneventful and easy. 1:26. The Run. Ah the dreaded run. My nemesis! I felt great. Better than I’ve ever felt for the run. So that was good. I started at about a 10 minute mile pace, and figured if I could just keep that up then I’d do way better than my previous 70.3 races. The first 4 miles of the run was in sand. I will make no bones about it. I do not like running in the sand at all. But we all had to do it for this race. Also it was in a wooded area so it wasn’t blisteringly hot, so that was nice. The run course then went to asphalt and was only slightly hilly. It was a decent run course. They had cones set out to designate that it was a run course. A couple cars did pass my very close from behind. I’m not sure how they might set it up, but it would
be nice if we were always running into traffic on the course. It was an out and back course so we could see oncoming traffic on the way out, but on the way back the traffic was to our backs which is unnerving. There was plenty of water on the course and the people were awesome, so organizationally the run was set up very well. One of my major goals for this season was to do a 70.3 and not walk at all on the run. I achieved that goal! My run time was 2:18:13. Over 20 minutes faster than my previous 70.3 races. In November of 2010 that was my stand alone half marathon run time, so I’m ecstatic with that run time. So my overall time was 5:52:27. My previous best time for a 70.3 was 6:15:43. A second major goal of mine this season was to do a half in less than 6 hours. Goal achieved! I’m still pinching myself over this race and how well it went. And again the staff at this race really did everything they could to make sure everyone had the best possible race, so thank you for making it all possible. I’m absolutely going to do this race again next year. This article was by Jay Gallagher.
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