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Hmm, this thread is turning into the daily time trial discussion. Anyone still racing?
I did 2 races tonight. Actually had planned on three yet nature intervened. I had already entered the race and with 6 minutes left on the timer, or 9 until race start I went out to put the cover over the pool. Plenty time, unless. It turned out an eastern hog nose snake had crawled into the solar blanket since it gets very warm in there. Normally they fall out when I hold one end up to drain the water before putting it on the pool but this one hang on to then fall into the pool as I unwound the thing. Wow, they are fast swimmers. I chased him around the pool with the leaf net hoping he would tire out at some point. However since the water is 84 as well, not much luck with that. Eventually he calmed down to stay in the leaf net long enough to help him out of the pool. No dead snake plugging the filter over night. When I got back in I was disqualified for ignoring penalties grr.
The other two races went great. I improved my best lap time to 9:06.9, and got 2nd place finishes both with fastest lap.
The first one had no clean star since the Brazilian behind me bumped me once for SR Down and clean streak reset. I did gain a whole position in the first race since I started 3rd in that one. 2 races is enough, so slow. First one we swapped positions a couple times, each pass took almost a minute lol. Second race 3rd attempted to pass from Bergwerk to the high speed left, side by side through the whole middle straight until he eventually gave up. Come alongside too soon and you run out of steam... He had a 0.5 sec penalty from earlier so fell almost 2 sec back on the final straight, harsh.
Two second places still don't compensate for the first disconnect, still 600 DR down from yesterday. Same thing yesterday where I go DC during the race, had 2 second places after and still 800 DR loss overall. So DR still going down despite consistently finishing second.
I did 2 races tonight. Actually had planned on three yet nature intervened. I had already entered the race and with 6 minutes left on the timer, or 9 until race start I went out to put the cover over the pool. Plenty time, unless. It turned out an eastern hog nose snake had crawled into the solar blanket since it gets very warm in there. Normally they fall out when I hold one end up to drain the water before putting it on the pool but this one hang on to then fall into the pool as I unwound the thing. Wow, they are fast swimmers. I chased him around the pool with the leaf net hoping he would tire out at some point. However since the water is 84 as well, not much luck with that. Eventually he calmed down to stay in the leaf net long enough to help him out of the pool. No dead snake plugging the filter over night. When I got back in I was disqualified for ignoring penalties grr.
The other two races went great. I improved my best lap time to 9:06.9, and got 2nd place finishes both with fastest lap.
The first one had no clean star since the Brazilian behind me bumped me once for SR Down and clean streak reset. I did gain a whole position in the first race since I started 3rd in that one. 2 races is enough, so slow. First one we swapped positions a couple times, each pass took almost a minute lol. Second race 3rd attempted to pass from Bergwerk to the high speed left, side by side through the whole middle straight until he eventually gave up. Come alongside too soon and you run out of steam... He had a 0.5 sec penalty from earlier so fell almost 2 sec back on the final straight, harsh.
Two second places still don't compensate for the first disconnect, still 600 DR down from yesterday. Same thing yesterday where I go DC during the race, had 2 second places after and still 800 DR loss overall. So DR still going down despite consistently finishing second.
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