{"id":828,"date":"2019-07-18T23:58:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2019-07-18T23:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:58:05","slug":"et-lake-zurich-7-14-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/18\/et-lake-zurich-7-14-19\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Lake Zurich – 7\/14\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“What do you do when you fall off the horse? You get back on.” – Multiple sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Pleasant Prairie, I wanted back on the horse; badly. I had to wait 3 weeks for the opportunity though. Going into Lake Zurich, I also intended to test out a few things and see if they worked. They included ‘racing empty’ (1\/2 Powerade for breakfast instead of solid food) and racing without a wet suit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake Zurich is the earliest race that I have during my season. When you’re not fully awake at 3:30AM, you can sometimes forget things. HUGE, HUGE, HUGE thanks to Steve from Village Cyclery for his help. We would not have been able to race without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I had planned to race without a wet suit, I couldn’t have raced for points with it. The water temp was a balmy 83.5 and the air temp was about 68 pre-race and mid-70s when we got out. So it was the perfect water\/air temp mix IMO. With the issues in the water the previous race, I gave myself a little bit of a cushion when self-seeding. Even though there was traffic, it was definitely the smoothest OWS I’ve ever had during a race. To the point that I believed we still had one more buoy turn when Lee signaled me we were at the swim exit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transition went as planned, and we were out on the bike relatively quickly. The bike went really well even though there were a couple of unexpected obstacles. There are a lot of hills (both rollers and a couple of huge ones) on the bike course, so there weren’t any good places for bottle passes. However, draining half a water bottle of Skratch from dismount into T2 seemed to work out well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A reasonably smooth T2 led to us headed out onto the run at just over 1 hour. At this point, the heat and humidity had increased from the nicer mid-70s that it was on the bike. While my goal was to run the entire 5K, it just didn’t happen. I knew it would go well because of WI hill hell and hoped I could make it happen. But the huge hills at about 1mi and 2mi, along with the heat and some other minor ones killed that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the run wasn’t what I wanted, it was still 2+ minutes better than last year. And overall, I PRed the race by almost exactly 12 minutes (1:39:51.66 vs. 1:51:51.59).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I head into the back-half of my season, I would greatly appreciate your support. You can support me by donating through my Dare2Tri fundraising page<\/a>. Thank you in advance for any support you can provide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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