Message posted by: J S.

Hello all. I am looking for suggestions on a tri top that is for well endowed women. I’m having a hard time finding one that would support me during the run.

Has anyone wore a sports bra under your tri top? How wet and heavy would that be? I’m looking for suggestions.

Thanks.

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Message posted by: Aleck A.

For anyone that cares:

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Thanks for your support everyone!

Aleck

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Message posted by: David P.

As a tri newbie, my biggest concern is the open water swim. I can swim two miles in a pool without too much trouble. However, I got a dose of reality this week end when i went for a “swim” in the gulf of mexico. I was swimming off the coast of St. George Island (FL), and after getting tossed around by 2-3 foot waves for five minutes, i decided to head back to shore.

I didn’t feel as if i were in danger of panicking or drowning, just in danger of getting lost and swimming “out to sea”.

I have two questions:

1. Are 2-3 foot waves “normal” for ocean triathlon swims? I plan on racing in May in Panama City, FL.

2. I need help “sighting”. Any advice would be appreciated.

thanks much,

Dave

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Message posted by: Andrew S.

I’m not in this to win this, but I have an issue to share Yesterday I went for a 5 hour hike in the mountains near my home. Wore the HRM and hiked for 5 hours, the HRM showed 5473 cals burned. The hike amounted to about 6 miles round trip. 2650 vetical on barely marked trail. If I enter it as a run, it’ll show somewhere around 500 cals burned.

Would you want to show actual here? Is that fair to the others? Or take my lumps, show the 500 and keep track of the actuals on my POLAR software.

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Message posted by: Andrew S.

I think most of you are coming or have at least responded. If you’re coming to IMAZ, and haven’t seen the invitation, please email me direct at

tri.angle62@yahoo.com

I’ll forward you the evite

And LAurie…..we’ll miss you, but you already told me you’re goin to the D-Backs game.

Andy

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Message posted by: Chad C.

Is $1000 a decent price for a new Trek TCT 5000? Just curious. Thanks

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Message posted by: g b.

I just saw a doctor for the first time in quite some time and learned I apparently have stupendously high blood pressure. Okay. No problem, we’ll work on it and figure it out. But I also bought a sphygmomanometer (blood pressure cuff) for home to get a real baseline, rather than the inflated value I get from being terrified at the doctor’s office. Honest, my heart rate is only 100bpm because I’m sitting on the examining table. While wearing a heart rate monitor during exercise, my heart rate seems pretty much in line with normal folks. It tops out at a little over 185bpm at max, and when I try it in the morning in bed, it reads below 60bpm.

So I’m now playing with the blood pressure cuff way too much. I can run up a few flights of stairs, go indoors, and by the time I get the cuff on and measure my bp, my pulse is at 54bpm. Just an hour ago when I’d been at the table for a while, my pulse was 49bpm. Unfortunately, my blood pressure was still 157/108.

Here’s the question: I only started blood pressure medication two days ago (”atenolol”), and it’s not really supposed to kick in for a week or so. Is my resting heart rate out of line with someone who swims two miles in an hour, bike in hills averaging 20mph over 50+ miles, and runs pathetically slowly? (202lbs, 6′0″, 15% body fat, 42 years, male, in other words I’m middle of the pack at best)

Yes, I’ll talk with the doctor Monday. Yes, I’ll probably try to find a doctor with a bit more of a sports focus. Yes, if it keeps decreasing, I’ll immediately go to the doctor. But in the meantime, do you think my daytime resting heart rate of around 50bpm is odd?

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Message posted by: Steve V.

36:12 for the 8K. My splits were pretty even. Have been fighting a heavy chest the past couple weeks. Always a fun race. Wife set a PR so I am happy for her. She said she pushed it.

Weather was cold but the rain held off.

Happy Sunday everyone!

Steve

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Message posted by: Mark R.

So I completed my first sprint tri in a competitive setting. Damn that is a good feeling.

I will start my race report with a little background. I was to compete last September at the Kokopelli Tri in sunny St. George, but it was completely washed out by a horrendous storm. In the days leading up to the Timpanogos Icebreaker Tri the weather reports were ominous - rain/snow all morning. My training partners started joking they were not going to sign up for any triathlon I was competing in for fear of the weather. (I did my own personal sprint tri a couple of weeks later.)

On the night before the race I went to the even site for packet pick up. Note to self and fellow triathletes, you know its a bad sign when the race director has posted that the triathlon will be a reverse tri (run, bike, swim) due to fears of possible hypothermia on the bike if the swim is first. Not joking.

The morning of the race was cloudy and windy with some rain up here in SLC. I traveled down to American Fork (20 miles south) and at least it wasn’t raining or snowing. In fact, it actually looked pretty good and in fact the cloud cover had pretty much cleared by race time. So, it was a go for the run.

The course was not particularly difficult in and of itself. Basically a slight uphill grade with two short hills on the outbound, a flat cross section and downhill all the way back. I learned quickly, that even if weather doesn’t cancel an event, it certainly can have an impact. (Headwinds SUCK!!!) I started in the fourth out of five waves and was quickly aware that they were going out at a pace that I couldn’t maintain. By the time I hit the steeper of the two hills (the second one of course) my heart rate was way up and I had to slow to a quick walk for a couple of minutes, but pushed myself to get back into a run. By the time I was halfway across the flat cross section I hit my stride. The downhill return was great.

T1 was pretty good - I think (we don’t have race results yet). A quick gel and some water, on with the shoes and helmet and out I went.

The bike started good enough, a short ride down the hill and then on to the same route as the run - just longer outbound and return. When I hit the first hill, it hit me how strong the wind really was. It felt like someone had their hand on my chest. It was blowing pretty good at this point (but I had no idea it would get worse). I struggled pretty good on the second steeper hill, but pushed it through. I think I was particulary motivated by the fact I was getting lapped by the elite racers. Once I hit the flat and then the downhill portion, I was feeling pretty good. I also knew that I had to conserve some energy for the second loop. Fortunately, I was able to cruise down the hill at about 25-28mph without much pedaling. It also felt good to be passing a few people instead of being pushed further and further back in the pack.

The second loop on the hills was simply brutal. The wind had substantially increased and it turned the smallish hills into difficult climbs. A lot of folks were walking their bikes up the second hill. I was determined not to do that so I put my head down and just counted it out one push at a time until I hit the top of the hill. This was my great accomplishment of the race and still puts a smile on my face. The rest of the outbound portion remained difficult due to the wind, but I knew I could make it Once I hit the downhill, I pushed as hard as I could. Top speed was around 31mph - the fastest I had ever gone on a bike.

T2 was a quick strip in the balmy 35 degree morning and a quick run to the pool.

Once in the pool, I was in my best part of the tri. It was an odd swim though because it was a bit of mayhem with the back and forth under the lane lines set up when it couldn’t be regulated on the start times. Probably more like open water as I passed people, got knocked around a bit, etc. Out of the pool, and crossed the finish line - yee hah!!

Post race notes: Unfortunately, my lovely wife stepped off a rather large curb and sprained or, hopefully not, broke her ankle. (We don’t know yet.) Bummer.

Also, one of the racers either accidentally, or by fault of an idiot in a car, went off into a rather large ditch. All I know now is that he was taken away by ambulance. We are all hoping he is okay.

So, that is it fellow ontriers - my first official race report. I have 3 olys on the schedule this summer, so more to come.

Thanks for all the support I get on this site. You guys/gals are the best.

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Message posted by: Lauren D.

I was wondering what would be the best device for me to keep track of laps in the pool. I’ve seen a few that go on your finger like a ring and one, the Finis Lap counter, that hooks to the pool itself. I just thought it might be a little irritating to have something on my finger. I’m finding it hard to think about technique and keep track of my laps all at once. Blonde thing again I think…. haha

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