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Comments: Even being in the first time group, it was relatively crowded and you had to pick, juke and jive your way through the crowd to get enough real estate to sustain a consistent pace. Remembering how heavy my shoes felt from being wet during the Gulf Coast HIM run, I avoided the spray from the water hoses and hydrates as much as possible. Upon looking at the data, it appears that my HR stayed in Zone 5 an abnormally long period of time: 29:19 and Z4 13:01 ... going to have to work on reversing those numbers. Also hit a new (and sustained) max-HR of 190 while sprinting towards the finish line from in front of the Federal Reserve on Peachtree Street to Piedmont Park (which seemed a helluva lot longer than the .3 miles that I thought it was!). While both the Garmin and my watch had my time down as 47:21, the official chip time was 48:51 ... either of which is helluvalot better than the 53:xx I logged last year. :) What would you do differently?: Training has been inconsistent since Gulf Coast. While I have done a 10k and an Adventure Race since then, I haven't really training with the consistency of a schedule. Instead I have been floating and just logging workout based upon other people's training schedule for the months of May and June.  Post race
Warm down: Met up with some of my peeps training with me for Coeur d'Alene next year and then we trekked over to friends house across the street from Piedmont Park. Drank a couple beers while watching the later groups finish ... before someone got the harebrained idea that we ought to not take Marta + instead run the race backwards to get our cars. Talk about junk miles. I even ran the extra 1 1/2 miles from Lenox to Brookhaven to forego Marta thing in entirely. What limited your ability to perform faster: Lack of consistent training, especially long slow distance base-building runs. Event comments: The Peachtree is not an event per se -- you are not going to set a PR here unless you are a Kenyan -- but an event to do with your friends. That said, I am happy with my times - both of them! Last updated: 2006-07-02 12:00 AM
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Ate a bowl of cereal and a container of yogurt while reading BT. Headed out the door early to meet my friend who got me started in triathlons in the first place at the Marta station so that we could ride down together. We hadn't had the opportunity to train much together, so it was a good chance to catch-up.
Hit the bushes on a side street (portolet lines were waaaaaaay too long) and then drank a bottle of water to top off the tank while milling around. Even though the crowd was greater than 55,000, I still saw a bunch of friends from BT (yeah Kyung!) and TNT while in the starting corral.
Was seeded in Time Group 1A, so had a timing chip for official time. Being a true tri-geek, I also used my Garmin Forerunner and the lap timer on my watch. (I had just received my Garmin back from the factory - they gave me a brand spanking new unit! - and wanted to test the timing function against my watch)
Danced around wanting to urinate but knowing that the lines at the portapotty were impossibly long (and the solitary of the bushes too far away ;))