Did everyone get the race results? Here it is in JPEG form. (Click on it to make it bigger.)
One thing this shows me is that we really weren't that competitive with the high performers, and even if we shaved an hour (and hour!) off our time, we would have moved up only one place. 90 minutes gives us one more rank advancement. So my thought is that we must only be doing this as a challenge to ourselves, because it seems unlikely we can place in the money without replacing our entire team. :-)
So I say if we are trying to challenge oursleves, let's go for it! If the Mooseman doesn't kill us, it therefore must make us stronger, so we should be able to rock the house in the Team Tango division next year. Who's with me!
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I noticed that we would have had a hard time moving up. I think realistic we could drop almost 2 hours next year, but it still doesn't quite get you there.
Shawn, remember that girl at Rocky Gap talking about creating a super relay for triathlons. She said the only way she could improve her team would be to replace herself. She was the swimmer.
I am still anguishing about the bike. Man, I looked at Lincoln Sokolskei/Tracy Covell team. They did a 1:30. They left the transition ahead of me. By the results by 2 minutes. I caught them up before I turned up Jake's Rocks. When I got the first flat which took me about 6 minutes to change, they passed me while I was putting air in the tire. I had made that is about a 8 minute lead on them at mile 11. So, I did the math, I don't think another 8 minutes, but even 10 minutes total would have given me a 1:20. That was right near the 4th fastest bike, for a relay. I am going back to do that course before winter. I am going to use the mountain bike as is, and see how I should have done.
All right I am going to let it go.
Actually, I love the fact you won't let it go. I haven't caught that competitive bug yet. I'm enjoying improving at the stuff I'm doing but I haven't started to compete against others yet.
During the 200yd swims last night I did challenge myself a couple times by trying to keep up with the best swimmer in the "advanced" lane. The tough part was I kind of had to lay off the next race because of that. Then I went for it again on the 3rd. Didn't have much in me for the 4th.
So there is a HS kid in the "pro" lane. I can't see that from the slow lane. We think he did close to 2200yds during the 30 minute distance race. (no fins!). I'm guessing he does nice kick flips tho'.
Anyhow, I guess at some point soon I'll need to start looking at class as competition.
I think Vash has a good point. We will only be proving something to ourselves. Even by shaving off the additional time as a relay team, we still won't be competitive with the rest of the field. Therefore, the next logical (??) step is for us each to take on the whole thing in tandem teams.
My brother has already mentioned that he and I should be a tandem team next year. If I can get prepared for it, I think that would be my first option.
Wow. I had thought getting ready for the Olympic/International Distance Mooseman was going to be enough of a challenge.
The KCT lies somewhere between a Half Iron and a Full I would say. Closer to a half?
So I guess while we are on the topic of taking on bigger challenges... I was thinking that after doing the Mooseman Individual on Saturday, we should come up with a couple relay teams for Sunday.
I might be able to get some people from my swim class involved if we need them.
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