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 [...]
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 [...]
This is part two of the results from the Elysian Rookie’s Triathlon. The swim leg is covered by part one.
Transition one
It took longer moving at T1 then I would have liked. I had problems pulling the jersey [...]
Well, I survived.. Some points of emphasis:
Lake water isn’t good to drink. Try to avoid it, M’kay.
The name of the event was The Elysian Rookie’s Triathlon. Note that apostrophe in there, it’s possessive — like, say, a bar [...]
