How were your beginnings in the triathlon?
do not come from any of the three disciplines in my teens I played volleyball and then I continued sailing until January 2004, at age 41, I enrolled in the super sprint triathlon entrerriano of La Paz, I had only two weeks to learn to swim and ride with pedals automatic water left by the iron and I searched through the other two stages to finish third among the seventeen women in general. The most important thing was not the result but to discover the passion generated by the industry, so I ran that same season championship entrerriano of promotional and was third for the following year, 2005 / 2006, achieving the title in my category and eighth out of female general.
"When you went to the long distance? How difficult was the adjustment?
In the summer of 2006 I ran my first half Ironman in Chajarí, Entre Rios, where I came second, with the super sprint I realized that the triathlon was my sport and the Half IronMan discovered that long breath tests were those I liked and participated in more tests to achieve my personal best of 5 hours and 44 minutes. The big break came in May 2008 with the IronMan Brazil, was my debut at the maximum distance, under almost thirteen hours, I crossed the finish in thirteen hours and one minute, becoming the first Rosario who completed Ironman the following year, I was about to be left out of appendix surgery made me thirteen days earlier, and also finished it in just eight minutes longer than the previous edition.
What were the results in the Ironman 70.3 South Africa? What is your balance?
1,900 meters were swimming in the sea, 90 km cycling and 21 in the final half marathon, I completed all six hours and twenty minutes that I got the tenth place among the 36 women in my category of 45 to 50 years 917 finished among the 1,720 competitors in the overall standings, which, abandoned 112. Although it was my worst time in an Ironman 70.3, paradoxically was one of my best racing as it proved much harder than you think, out of the water in 47 minutes and half, but was complicated by the bike which was 45 miles uphill and in the second half I could not take advantage of the lowered because the headwind hit very hard. After three hours ride, I approached the half marathon that took place in three laps with a slope of eight feet, got a partial walk 1 hour and 55 minutes. I got 1547 of the swim and spent the following two disciplines to 630 competitors, I got off the bike as No. 1023 with energy sufficient to achieve partial 494 of pedestrians. The general won the local women's Mari Rabie who flew on British Frade 4h35m54s and Cartmell was first across the finish with a time of four hours and seven minutes.
Who trained you for this IronMan 70.3? In cycling and pedestrian trained me Eugene Gordon, a physician deportólogo also focuses on nutrition and also helped me in the food aspect
while swimming Mauro Paglia prepared me in the pool of Park Residents Club Field Rosario (CRP). So I added a weekly average of ten kilometers swim, nearly two hundred bike and
cu arent running. Two months before I had to have surgery that forced me to thirty days of rest that lasted at forty because of flu.
What were the positive and negative aspects of Ironman 70.3 South Africa?
The organization was quite good as carbohydrate dinner and post-race party with a very good kit that included a backpack, also seemed novel also ran teams were 75 teams, and starts in batches, the first for the Pro, the second for men to 44 years, the third for men aged 44 years and all women and the last for the posts. As things improve, they ought to transitions as they are very long and that employees do not mix the bikes in the park closed, and there was to do an endless line to get to the food and hydration tent
What's your opinion left the control of drafting?
There was quite controlling but as well all pack many pedaled. I hate the trap, I think there is no excuse to attitudes contrary to the regulations, in the first 45 miles was almost impossible to control because it was mostly in good steep climb but in the last 45, with a lot of miles upwind, I spent several platoons The subject to drafting despite the ban is something that became commonplace, not only in Argentina, I saw in Brazil and now in South Africa, no one recognizes it and always find a justification.
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what role during the race?
was the first time I crossed the finish line and there was nobody waiting for me, not even someone you know as in the rest of the circuit or the IronMan Argentine Florianopolis, on the starting grid could not talk to anyone looking to rest as they chatted together with friends and family reminded me of my own as the team Tritim of Rosario, Eugene Gordon, Maureen Paglia and people from the pool of Residents Club. Fortunately, people gave me a muscular Coach with the flag of Argentina and the public encouraged me every time he passed with the blue and white. I always say that the mental aspect is important, but this time was this twist that made it different, equally at all times I took my friends and coaches in the heart, to them I dedicate my qualification for the World Championships in Clearwater.
