{"id":835,"date":"2019-09-01T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2019-09-01T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:43:23","slug":"rock-the-quarry-8-17-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/01\/rock-the-quarry-8-17-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock the Quarry – 8\/17\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Last year, Rock the Quarry was just ‘some race’ that I happened to find on\nRunning in the USA.  It was simply a\nreplacement race for having lost Naperville. \nBut after how much I enjoyed it last year, it was a definite race and\none I looked forward to.
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\nAs well, last year we were in a wave with a single other AWD (Athlete With\nDisability) participant.  It was amazing\nthat they held the race until we were both out of the water.  This yea, we were part of the normal AG\nwave.  The M35-39 wave was large, and it\nwasn\u2019t a \u2018normal\u2019 start.  To ensure that\nwe weren\u2019t swum over, Michael had us towards the back.  We probably lost 45-60 seconds on the water\nentry because of how things were set up.
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\nOnce in the water, the swim went okay. \nThere was one point where swimmers from wave 4 (the next male wave)\ncaught up with us.  When one of the\nparticipants from that wave swam right over me, I lost my stroke and then time\nhaving to restart in open water.  Once I\nwas able to get re-started, we made our way back to the shore without incident.
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\nThere is quite a long run from swim out to the transition racks.  After making it there, T1 went decently and\nwe headed out on the bike.  The 15 miles\nwent by quickly with a couple interesting and one dangerous incident —
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\n1)  As it\u2019s Amish country and there are\nopen roads, you can sometimes run into a horse and buggy.  We did again this year and made the pass around\nboth it and the horses without any incident. \nA hoof to the bike can ruin your day\u2026
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\n2)  Seeing the two AWD teams and their\nsupport teams on the course.  As a ParaTriathlete,\nI love seeing other AWDs at these local races. \n
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\n3)  One of the most important bike ones\nis ride right, pass left (unless specifically stated otherwise).  That\u2019s important on any course, but\nespecially on this one where you do an S curve under a railroad trestle.  Coming out of it going out, we had someone\npass us on the right-hand side.  The\nasshat did that to someone else a bit further on as well.  I really wish that Michael or I had gotten\nhis bib number.  People like that should\nreally be Dqed.
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\nAlso on the bike, we passed a tremendous number of people.  As in the past several races, we got the\nsmartass \u2018you\u2019re cheating\u2019 joke.  If\nsomeone wants to trade me their 20\/20 eyes, I\u2019ll gladly give up the tandem\u2026  But I won\u2019t hold my breath for that\u2026
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\nT2 went as well as T1, after which we made the long run onto the run\ncourse.  Loop 1 went okay.  However, on loop 2, the head and humidity\ntook its toll.  It became a walk\/run,\nwith the last 1\/2 \u2013 3\/4 mile being in pain.
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\nWhile there were issues on the swim and run, I did still manage to shave about\n90 seconds off of my 2018 time.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, Rock the Quarry was just ‘some race’ that I happened to find on Running in the USA.  It was simply a replacement race for having lost Naperville.  But after how much I enjoyed it last year, it was a definite race and one I looked forward to. As well, last year we were … Continue reading Rock the Quarry – 8\/17\/19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[350,358],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-dare2tri-3","tag-rock-the-quarry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}