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 [...]
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. [...]
Preamble
It’s been a while since I ran a race. Something like seven weeks, so it was time to start a hopeful summer of working primarily on speed. Swim speed, run speed, bike speed, [...]
My favorite description of a marathon is, twenty miles of hope and six miles of truth. When you run a marathon as a personal endeavour, rather then as an elite with a chance of [...]
I’ve sat on this for long enough, so here’s the short version.
Time: 43:30 (chip), 43:37 (watch)
Pace: 7:00 (chip), 7:01 (watch)
Conditions for Get In Gear were less then ideal. It rained and was colder then I would have liked. Other then that, everything [...]
Summary:
I ran the Earth Day Half Marathon on Saturday April 15th.
Time: 1:38:24
Pace: 7:31
The rest of the story…
The Earth Day Half Marathon is has been the location of my PR for the majority of the last three years. Since my first half marathon effort, [...]
