Last night at the pool, Esther decided she wanted to time her mile swim. She competes in her first Olympic Distance Tri this Sunday (NJ State).
So we do a 300m warm up, then swim 64 laps. She lapped me 3 or 4 times, not surprising. I'm not sure what my time was. Then she says she wants to do it again with a different approach to see if there is a time difference. So off we go again. She lapped me 4 times and I finished in 34 minutes.
Using this time to provide a worst case scenario for the Tango, I'll guess 74 minutes. I hope to do much better than this. The wetsuit alone should drop that time for me. I'm comfortable with the new fins as well. The question there is my ability to use them after running 13.1.
Also, I'd like to mention that Esther and Armando drove up to the Lake Placid Ironman this past weekend. They both registered for IMLP 09. Good luck with your training!
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Holy Crap! 74 mins. Sounds like you want to win or something. 4 people swam better than that last year. The average was 107 mins. Take your time on the 13.1, because on some teams you will be gaining 33 minutes after you swim.
Combined with my 20 mins I put on the average bike we will be cruising. I thought Shawn had the competitive edge because he has a "Dr" on his team. But if we are pulling out stops, I am ready to party.
Did you have fins on for this? That's pretty good. Way to go! That sounds like a horribly boring workout. I am glad I was in bed sleeping :)
Craig, our job is to raise the averages this year! Wait... no.. lower them. That's it!
Maybe we should be averaging the top 5 splits for each event. To figure out our "Target Pace". There were some pretty weak teams watering down the averages last year. Including our team I suppose!
Maija:
No fins for this workout. I didn't bring along any of the pool toys. I needed a "no way to cheat" workout.
I knew you would hate that workout. :-)
It happened to work out well for me. So many times I will go to class, push so hard that I just lose my form completely. (what little I have).
Because it was all swim pace, I actually had a long run of what felt like fairly good technique.
Not to mention I haven't been swimming very far without wetsuit and fins for the last 10 days. It was probably good to swim "for real" for a change.
So I just looked at your beating the bike average by 20 minutes. Only 4 people did 1:19 or better last year. I guess we are both looking to be quite respectable for a couple events at least :-)
You know if it is a 20 mile bike. And I do it in 79 that is only 15.19 Mph. So, I am looking to be at the 15 mile mark in an hour, which is the bottom of the big hill.
Let Genine know that you start at the waters edge and end at the water edge so the net climbing is zero, in case she was wondering. Net Zero, Shawn will like that too. I think by one definition of work almost all triathlons would be net zero, you start and end at the same point. This guy agrees with me, paste two lines together:
http://mechanical-physics.suite101.com/
article.cfm/understanding_work_in_physics
Of course, I think yesterday in the Tour de France, they ended up 7,000 feet higher than they started, but had climbed higher than Mt. Everest combined during the day. Whew! I can't complain to much about just over 1000ft.
What was the comment the pro at Morgantown made? Something like:
"You make up time at every turn and at the top of every hill, you have to be aggressive in these areas to move ahead of the pack."
You probably remember the quote better than I.
If you really want to get aggressive on the course, maybe you should wear full BMX gear. ;-)
matt, the quakerman half has a spot waiting for you..
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