KONA BOUND!
Apr 16th
Aloha and Congratulations Aaron!
You have been selected as a winner in the 2009 Ironman Lottery Program to compete as an athlete in the Ford Ironman
World Championship in beautiful Kailua-Kona, Hawaii on October 10, 2009!
Twitter Updates
Apr 4th
I have been experimenting on Twitter. At one point I added the top 30 people on twitter that follow other people. I raised the amount of people I was following to about 150. In return I ended up with over 200 follower. Big number right? Two days later I reduced the amount of people I follow to people I actually follow. My followers quickly reduced into the 80s.
Lesson learned, retweet, and follow those that follow you. Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/aarondavidson
Failure Breeds Success or Just More Failure?
Mar 23rd
According to a new article from the NYTimes, a Harvard study showed that failure typically meant more failure. Failure does not lead to success.
“If at first you dont succeed, it doesn’t matter that you tried.” Life lessons did not really mean anything. Its great that you tried, but you gained nothing and just failed again.
Any idea if there is a relationship to success in creating a business to that of a professional athlete or someone trying to simply win their AG?
New Bedford 1/2 Marathon RR
Mar 20th
Woke up, I had ground my coffee, filled the maker with water and set the timer, so I woke up to a few great cups of 53x11coffee, oatmeal, sat around for awhile. Then realized I was still hungry so I had a slice of bread with Nutella on it, about to walk out the door, still felt empty, so had another half a PB&J sandwich.
Race was at 11am, I hate ‘late’ races, too much time to sit around. Finally made the 80mile drive up to New Bedford.
Walked around, figured out where to pick up my race packet, dropped it in the car and looked for the Port-A-Potties. Stood in line waiting for the bathroom. Line was moving super slow, some of the doors were marked ‘locked’ but I had seen anyone moved, I asked if people saw anyone go in, they thought they had, finally first guy in line knocked, 3 Port-A-Potties where empty. Line moved much quicker.
Then jogged around for awhile and shed some layers. I still had a ton of time, so I sat around debating what to wear.
Actual run was pretty good. Went out a bit too fast, passed the Hoyts, then settled in and pushed more and more the further I got into the race. I got passed and passed a ton of people throughout the run.
Sort of disappointed at my overall time. It was a great PR for me. Turns out race was chip-timed, but it wasn’t chip timed. It counted your chip as you finished but not as you started, so people that were seeded further back got hurt. Normally it doesn’t matter.
What could I have done to improve? Check my Garmin 305 in the morning (it was DOA), I was up for 2.5hours before I left. I think I could have pushed a bit more after the initial hills.
Test out new shorts on a longer run. I wore a pair of Brooks Infiniti shorts, super comfortable. However I had worn them once before. They are my first pair of ‘short’ shorts. My normal running shorts are just around/just past mid thigh. These are short. My legs don’t really touch, or at least I never thought they did. Sometime around mile 5 my thighs starting burning, by mile 9 they were on fire. I do not think this really effected my race much, except that it added some serious pain. I thought I lubed up well, but didnt go down far enough.
Seriously an awesome race. Everything was setup perfectly. Shops had post-race discounts, tons of free food I skipped out on. Only improvement would have been Gatorade or something similar at the water stations.
Results: 1:36:06
http://www.coolrunning.com/results/09/ma/Mar15_32ndNe_set1.shtml
Taper
Mar 12th
Does anyone else diskike tapering? So instead of my normal ten hours or so of training a week its more like 3 hours this week. No caffeine/coffee. I got desperate and tried decaf coffee today. Couldn’t finish my cup. It will all pay off at my race come Sunday right?