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 2009-06-22 9:15 AM |
 3 |  Subject: Unhappy with race...1st race of the season last weekend.... Swim, usually my strongest was cruddy! My arms were tired, and I was a full min. slower than usual. Bike was great - took 5 min. off my average! Run was slow for me - couldn't get my breathing at all - ran 8:13's and need to closer to 7:50's or 8's. I was a min. from age - grouping and my super slow T1 definitely impacted my finish. Grrr..... Just thought I was in comporable or better shape than last season, so am a little discouraged by my times.... |
| 2009-06-22 9:18 AM in reply to: #2233536 |
Cycling Guru 15134    Fulton, MD | Subject: RE: Unhappy with race... Too many things affect race day performances. Weather, fatigue, attitude, rest, nutrition, quality of the field that shows up, etc. etc. You simply go out there and do the best that you can with what the day delivers you! If you can say, "Hey, this was the hardest that I could go today" then there is nothing to be upset about. Every race can't be a PR or perfect. You can learn more from the disasters and sub-perfect performances than you can from the perfect ones. Edit: And 5 minutes off the bike is a huge improvement. (But it also is a prime contributor as to why the run was slower more than likely). And welcome to BT!!! Edited by Daremo 2009-06-22 9:20 AM |
| 2009-06-22 9:20 AM in reply to: #2233536 |
Elite 3683   Whispering Pines, North Carolina | Subject: RE: Unhappy with race... Sounds like you did great! did you have a chance to warm up in the water before the swim? practice your transitions and coming off the bike and you'll take more time off your overall.  |
| 2009-06-22 9:21 AM in reply to: #2233536 |
| Elite 3650 Laurium, MI | Subject: RE: Unhappy with race... sara0919 - 2009-06-22 10:15 AM Bike was great - took 5 min. off my average! Run was slow for me - couldn't get my breathing at all - Coincidence? Probably not. Don't worry about it. Really. You can't PR every race. A bad race is just an opportunity to learn how NOT to race, so you don't do it again. So figure out what went wrong, put it behind you and kill the next one. |
| 2009-06-22 9:31 AM in reply to: #2233536 |
| 3 | Subject: RE: Unhappy with race... Thanks guys! I think that the bike def. contributed to the run - now the challenge will be to bike more at that pace (around 20 -21 mph) in training to condition my legs so I don't punk out on the run. At the end of the day though, it's such an awesome sport - challenging, fun and super people |
| 2009-06-22 9:32 AM in reply to: #2233549 |
Extreme Veteran 448 Atlanta | Subject: RE: Unhappy with race... Daremo - 2009-06-22 10:18 AM Too many things affect race day performances. Weather, fatigue, attitude, rest, nutrition, quality of the field that shows up, etc. etc. You simply go out there and do the best that you can with what the day delivers you! If you can say, "Hey, this was the hardest that I could go today" then there is nothing to be upset about. Every race can't be a PR or perfect. You can learn more from the disasters and sub-perfect performances than you can from the perfect ones. QUOTE] Well said! With every race you learn something new, sometimes you have to take a step back to find it though. Instead of saying "oh gosh my race sucked, I ran :15 per mile slower than I wanted." Think about how you went 5min faster on the bike which means you're 4:15 in the made up time department. Swims change from year to year in the currents, waves, and overall conditions. That's why it's hard to compare year to year and race to race because there are sooo many different factors (perhaps the run up to T1 was longer and added an extra :20 on your time or the bike had a ball buster of a hill.) Then again maybe its something with your training, have you been biking more and running less? How'd your taper go leading into the race? Nutrition the day of and a few days before? Quality of sleep? All of these things that you don't normally think of play a part in the race so it's extrememly hard to just look at a swim/bike/run split and say "I went slower...". Step back and think about it and work on what went wrong so for the next race you'll be smoother which makes you faster. Shanks |
| 2009-06-22 9:36 AM in reply to: #2233536 |
Champion 19812 MA | Subject: RE: Unhappy with race... to add to the ^^^ Swims are rarely measured accurately so your 1' slower swim may have been same pace, faster or slower than last year. Sometimes seeing where you fit overall can tell you how you did. My race this weekend the swim was very short this year. Me swim 33' HIM not possible. Hard thing is we don't know the real distance. Sounds like you are learning a lot so next race you'll execute even better. |
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