Bitterwhiteguy

I'm pasting this in from another site, hopefully the formatting comes out alright. One note: when I mention 'laps' in my stats, those are the laps I setup on my heart rate monitor. I have 7 laps on my run because it's set to lap every mile, but in reality it was a 2-loop course.

Goals:
1500m swim: < 36 minutes
24 mile bike: < 90 minutes(16mph or better)
6.2 mile run: < 68 minutes(11:00 min/mile)
Transitions: < 6 minutes(I'm being generous since I'm wearing a wetsuit)

Goal time: < 3hr 20min

Results:
1500m swim: 36:05
24 mile bike: 82:28(18.1mph)
6.2 mile run: 69:12(11:09 min/mile)
Transitions: 9:17(yikes)

Actual time: 3hr 17min 04sec

Swim
00:36:05 | 1640.4 yards | 02m 12s / 100yards

Comments:

I was pretty happy with this swim in that I didn't freak out in the water at all. I was comfortable pretty much the whole time. I guess that's a good part of having to wait so f*cking long, I got over my nerves. I need more practice in my wetsuit though, my form was off and I didn't compensate properly. I also can't sight for crap, I probably swam an extra couple hundred yards zig-zagging all over the course. But I was happy with the swim because I was calm the whole time. The only time I got a little freaked out is when I could actually see the bottom of the lake. My brain was thinking "OMG GO AWAY I WANT TO GO BACK TO NOTHINGNESS".

What would you do differently?:

Maybe push a little harder a little earlier, but overall it was good. I might consider a sleeveless wetsuit in the future to reduce arm fatigue.

T1
Time: 05:51

Comments:

I'm writing this before I get the results and I can tell you this transition was probably really bad. I had a hard time getting the wetsuit open and I ran off with my bike before realizing I hadn't put my chip back on. The run out to the bike mount was also way longer than I had expected. I'm not losing any sleep over it though, I expected a bad time given how little I've used my wetsuit.

What would you do differently?:

Get the wetsuit off more quickly, put the chip on the first time.

Bike
01:22:28 | 24.85 miles | 18.08 mile/hr
Lap 1: 5.0 miles - 17:13 - 17.4mph - Ave. HR 166bpm;
Lap 2: 5.0 miles - 17:35 - 17.0mph - Ave. HR 161bpm;
Lap 3: 5.0 miles - 17:24 - 17.2mph - Ave. HR 161bpm;
Lap 4: 5.0 miles - 17:25 - 17.2mph - Ave. HR 162bpm;
Lap 5: 3.85 miles - 12:40 - 18.2mph - Ave. HR 163bpm

Comments:
I tried not to eat the paste, I really did. I dabbled in the paste a little though, the long downhill sections were too tempting. The important part is that by the end of the 1st loop I had my HR in a pretty good spot and was able to keep it there for pretty much the rest of the ride. I didn't see Aaron until the 2nd loop, so I decided to try to hold off The Inevitable Aaron Pass as long as possible. I made it to the end of the 3rd loop before he passed me, which I took as a minor victory. I know I had a massive headstart, but let me have this. Aaron was probably setting up a picnic on his aero bars while I'm pondering why my knees hurt and if this is what butt cancer feels like, but I'm laying claim to this moment. Other than that I just tried to keep a consistent HR & cadence. Oh and I was the impromptu bike shorts integrity checker. I say that because in the last lap there was a sprint guy who had an enormous run in his shorts right where his crack is. I caught him on a hill and tried to tell him as nicely as possible, but he wasn't really getting it so I was reduced to telling him that if he farted I could probably tell him what he had for dinner last night. That got the point across.

What would you do differently?:

Not much. I may need to get a refitting to see if everything's in the right spot, but the pain went away after a couple loops so I may have just been sitting in the wrong spot or something.


T2
Time: 03:26

Comments:

I thought this transition was quicker than the time says.