Subject: RE: ultrahip_00's Mentor Group - Closed Again!fleetfeet_ch - 2009-06-14 11:33 PM Mike -
Great job finishing your race under nasty conditions. I'm supposed to be on my bike this morning and it looks like a monsoon outside. Big change from yesterday.
Would you mind sharing your expected and actual event times so that I can begin to get a feeling for the different races? I'm beginning to guess about how long a sprint race will take me, but I don't really know how all of these tris compare to one another. How big a difference is it for the athlete to do a Sprint and then an Oly in terms of the different disciplines (swim, bike, run)?
You can send it to me privately if you don't think everyone needs to hear this. I'm probably the most inexperienced person here.
it depends - i didn't find my times going down much between sprint and oly. Here is what i would expect to hold for paces for those: Swim - around 1:40-1:45 per 100 yds Bike - 21-22 miles/hr run - 6:30-7 min/mile For the half i did: 1:45ish/100 yds 19.7ish mph 8:05 min/mile but i feel that the bike during my race on sat really hampered me - i am not used to hammering at race pace for that long, and the weather mentally drained me and wore me out. . i was not able to push my pace hard on the run. . going up to long distance like half-iron - the times are going to be slower. i find my sprint times to be quite a bit faster then my training paces, since the adrenaline and such, and it is short enough that i can hold an 'all out' type of pace for most of the race. is that what you were asking? ![](https://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/images/emoticons/smile.gif) |