Raced at Blue Lake sunday. Although the field only contained about 200 people the top 10 or so was pretty competitive. This was my first time racing the Olympic distance on the course and I was eager to see how my swim and bike fitness were coming along. I was given the instructions to "time trial" the swim and bike and then just let my running legs do what they do.
Swim- 24:04- New PR for me. I started in the "elite" wave for the first time. I figured it would pobably force me to push the swim more than i am comfortable. Felt pretty good on the swim. Avg hr was 177 though. 16th place out of the water
T1- 1:47- decent time. HR avg'd 192 though. my heart rate was really running high all day
Bike- 1:00:45- this was not supposed to happen. with the effort I put out (181 avg hr) and the conditions and flatness of the course, i should have been somewhere between 58 and 59 minutes. It didnt help that 3miles in I turned the wrong way at one turn and lost about 15seconds. Once Trevor Davies and Bill Thompson passed me (they started the race in the wave after mine, 1min back) I knew i was having an off day, even though these guys are strong strong riders, i should have held them off for more than 7 or 8 miles.
T2- 1:18-
Run- 38:25- 4th fastest....not feeling well on the run. HR was at 180-185 the whole time and i was running 6:11's. I was not exhausted but could not get my legs turning over any faster and ended up running well off my 35:00 10k time i ran at world in June. Chris Bell started out the run with me and pulled away after 1.5miles to finish 3rd overall.
Grant Folske won the race with some fantastic splits and was the only guy to go under 2hrs in the race. He is looking really strong.
i finshed in 6th place overall in 2:06:19
Oh well we all have our off days. Back to training now and getting ready to Defend my Hulaman title on Aug 17th!!
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