Triathlon
Downtime and 2010
Oct 23rd
I have some great sponsorship lined up for 2010. However right now I am happy enjoying some downtime. Just relaxing and getting back into some unstructured training. November is another ‘off’ month unstructured training and a Turkey Trot. Also racing the Tarzan Brown 5.5mile River Run in Mystic, CT.
Really enjoying more time with my daughter and some decent weather.
Planning to race Kona in 2011 again. 2010 is a focus on short/fast. Olympic/70.3.
Official race photos from Kona:
http://www.asiorders.com/view_user_event.asp?EVENTID=47958&BIB=1723
Kona was such an awesome experience and I can not wait to race it again.
Ironman World Championships
Oct 18th
I finished, race, ended up walking some of the marathon. Poor bike fit led to really bad lower back cramps. I had to continually get off the bike to stretch my bike. Muscularly I felt good/strong. Weird fever the day before and after the race. I am not a World Championship competitor/finisher. Pretty excited regardless of finish time.
2009 Timberman 70.3 RR
Aug 30th
Short Version:
I crashed.
Long Version:
I went camping. Had to setup at night in the rain, Friday night. Saturday was eating and getting everything ready. Had some time to relax hang out with a friend at the dinner and for S’mores.
Woke up Sunday morning early, feeling great. No caffeine. I had packed up all my stuff the night before. Walked about 1mi to the shuttle buses at Gunstock. Got right on a bus and headed to Ellacoya for the race.
Honestly I thought my swim was much better. Got caught up at the beginning at towards the middle. Then found feet and drafted some. I thought this would have been about 5min faster. At the same time, I feel like I used no energy coming out of the water.
One punch to the head, some foot grabbing, some bumping. After I got free in the middle, I passed quite a few people.
I may have pushed the bike too hard, but no idea since, I did not finish.
So my crash. I was coming down a hill (Mobile on the right, some bank on the left), there were cones at the bottom, I was slowing down and starting to turn. All of the sudden it felt like I was no longer turning. So I went to turn, and next thing I know it felt like the front of my bike exploded.
I did not black out, I remember going over the handlebars, with my bike flipping over me. There was a brief moment where I was like f’me. Landed. I got up and yelled that I crashed and I thought I was hurt. I laid down. Not sure if I got my bike and parts off the course or someone else did.
There was a Police Officer and two volunteers. One of the volunteers was a nurse. I could not move my left arm/shoulder much. I was coherent. EMTs came, checked me out, nothing broken.
I got cleaned up, still hurting, but I kept gaining more movement in my left arm.
Still not positive what happened except that I sheared my handle bars off, the steering tube broke in the handlebars. Landed on my head, which was both a good thing and bad. Good in that if I had landed on my side I probably would have broken something or had much worse road rash. I cracked my helmet in a few places on the inside. It saved my life for sure.
EMTs asked if I wanted to go to the hospital. Declined. Sat around for what felt like forever waiting for a ride back from the sag wagon. Eventually got picked up, and rode back with people that had had various issues and had stopped their races. I asked if I could still run.
I was told that I would have to turn my timing chip in first and that I could then go out and run if I felt up to it.
Up to the crash, I felt great on the bike. The big thing was fluid/food intake. I had had two bottles of Gatorade, 1 of water, 4-5gels. Way more than what I took in at RI70.3.
Great run, but I had a long time to recover after biking. Started with a headache. It faded just past the turn around on the first loop.
Timberman is run nearly perfect and just a great time all weekend. Apparently the shuttle buses back to Gunstock after the race had long wait times. I could not find the massage area. I would prefer if the race was on Saturday. Great food and a free margarita post-race. I plan on coming back next year.
Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island Race Report
Jul 15th
Here it is: Race Report
Decent enough race. Poor sleep because of traveling up really affected me for a variety of reasons, and I think it led to my downfall.
Few things slowed me down. I probably had an extra .2-.3mi worth of swim because of thinking well people are on both sides I must be going the right direction. I was up at 2am, I ate maybe 1/4 or 1/3 a serving of oatmeal and coffee. I had two bars to eat. I had planned to eat one prerace sitting around, and the 2nd out on the bike. I had to do both before the race started because I got hungry.
On the bike, I did not think I went too hard, and my PT shows that I went good but nothing too too hard. I took in almost nothing on the bike. I tried but could not manage much because it was cool and overcast out. I also tried HARD to pee on the bike for 10min. I think I almost did twice. I will explain in not graphic details later. Really I kept my power under control on the hills. I think had I pushed (perceived effort), I could have ridden to 2:40.
So the run started with severe intestinal cramping from not being able to digest what little I took in on the bike. Got better as I progressed and consumed gatorade on course. 2nd aid station I decided sponges were AWESOME. Grabbed an extra wet/cold one. This was the first time I have worn socks in a triathlon. I also wore my Brooks Launch were are awesome running shoes. However this sponge went right down my front and soaked my shoes and socks. So for 11miles my feet were soaked. THE HILL was not that bad. My intestinal cramping was killing me, but I managed to run nearly the entire run. Walked aid stations later on and half THE HILL on the 2nd loop. I was hoping to be closer to 1:50.
AWESOME VOLUNTEERS. Police had shut down probably half of the state for us. Outside of logistical issues prior to the race, and poor postrace food, it was an awesome time. Race itself is great.
Brooks Launch & Mystic River Valley Triathlon Results
Jun 20th
It has been a long time coming, but I finally need to update. First triathlon of the season went well enough.
Only real issue was with my swim seeding, I was too conservative.
I took 4th in the Mystic River Valley Triathlon for my AG (M25-29), 27th overall if you remove the two people who started in the wrong wave.
Brooks Sports has also been kind of enough to send me a pair of their new shoes the Launch. They are not available for purchase quite yet.
Not sure how I feel about the orange yet. Outside of that, they are awesome. First run was a 12miler, with no discomfort. Followed by a quick 2.5miler before a swim. More runs to come, and a full review as well.
Good results, great shoes, and I now I have Lyme Disease as well. Just diagnosed. Tons of antibiotics to follow. Not sure how this is going to effect my training/racing.
Next race in RI790.3 followed by Timberman and then Kona.