The Swim
The good news is that it was a wetsuit eligible swim. There were storms for a few nights before the event, some strong winds, and the morning of the event was quite a bit cooler then the 90s of the preceding days. I believe the combination resulted in a water temp of seventy-six and [...]
At long last, here is a race results summary.
Here are some personal revelations from the 2008 Lifetime Fitness Triathlon:
An Olympic distance triathlon is actually quite a bit like a marathon relative to effort required. (e.g. three hours of multidisciplinary effort versus three and a half hours of running)
Training for events of this type require a [...]
I am attempting to set some expectations for the race this weekend. I
have not done this recently because it scares the crap out of me.
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The New York Road Runners sent me the official news the other day:
Dear …,
Thank you for applying to the ING New York City Marathon 2008. We’re sorry to inform you that…
The email goes on to politely say that I should contact various charitable organizations who — for a few thousand dollars — would be glad [...]
Over here I expressed some intentions. Now for the reality:
Frozen Half, (1:53:11, ~8:39s) check.
Human Race.. skipped.
Get-In-Gear, (44:55, 7:14) check.
Pigman Sprint Tri, registered.
(extra) Minneman Sprint Tri, registered.
Lifetime Olympic Tri, registered.
Time Trailing?? not so much..
Twin Cities Marathon, registered.
New York Marathon, entered into the lottery pool.
At this point, I’m two to the good, with three extra events (there [...]
The Minnesota Triathlon Club is sponsoring a “My First Tri” clinic at the Midtown YWCA on Saturday, April 26th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Here are the details from the email announcement:
It’s finally time for the 2008 version of the MN TriClub’s fabulously famous clinic; “Your First Tri”. This clinic is led by [...]
I’ve been swimming more then usual over the last eight weeks in order to prepare for the 1500m swim leg in the Lifetime Olympic distance triathlon in July. The problem — as always — seems to boil down to some kind of swim endurance and/or comfort level that I need to develop. I wanted to [...]
I recently came across this article relating to the USA Track & Field regulation against wearing headphones in sanctioned events. Here’s the opening paragraph:
At the peak of the marathon season, with one of the year’s biggest races set for Sunday in New York, a worry has emerged among some runners, and it has nothing to [...]
The following images were shamelessly pilfered from the runpix.com website which does visualizations of marathon races. Frankly, being a data wienie — or more specifically a heart rate data wienie, these guys and gals do really cool stuff. Check it!
The view above shows the runners who finished in the 30 seconds before and after my [...]
Just a quick post on yesterdays run. Results are as follows:
Chip Time: 3:31:29
Clock Time: 3:33:57
Overall place: 1373/20667
Gender place: 1194/12610
Division place: 234/2263
Age Grade: 59.3%
I don’t really understand the age grade number. There’s a blurb on what it means, but the only interesting aspect of it is 60% is the minimum level for a “local level” performance. [...]
