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 [...]
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 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. [...]
Quick Results
Overall Place
Division Place
Chip Time
178/588
31/64
1:24:00
I’m happy with the result. I feel like I might have been able to go a little faster had I known a little more about the course. On the bike leg, there’s a little rise [...]
As I mentioned last week, I ran the Green Bay Half Marathon with the intention of using it as a training event thinking that an all out attempt at the half marathon PR would be a poor choice. The results were pleasant, if somewhat surprising.
Time: 01:40:46
Pace: 7:42
Here are the watch splits for the miles:
Mile
Split Time
Comment
1
8:07
2
7:18
3
7:21
4
8:44
pit [...]
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, [...]
Here’s a quick marathon update. I don’t have split data or anything at this point, but I should have that on Thursday or so. Here are the short term important bits:
Watch [...]
Sascha pointed me to Bolder in Boulder’s post titled My ordinary life because she thought that I would enjoy it. The post includes the following quote:
Sometimes, I think that I am extraordinary, and then I step in a pool, on a bike, or on a run. Tonight is my last Boulder Stroke & Stride of [...]
