SBR Utopia Season II - OPEN (Page 124)

Jim is in with a smoking fast 10:20!  1:15 + 5:15 + 3:42 for 6th in M50-54!

Well, have we seen Jim's helmet???????

Congrats Jim!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow,   Pass the popcorn.  Monday should be very interesting......   Read slowman's latest on ST, so much potential wrong there if true.

LOL.  As of this second, the helmet was a different legal one.  I'll post again when the story changes again in, oh, 5 mnutes

Well, I'm glad it turned out to be a legal helmet.  What a mess that would have been.

I swam with the kids swim team this morning for the first time in a few months.  It was a good old fashioned a$$ kicking as usual.  I made it to 3600m and then bailed - they still had another 1000m (at least) to go.

Thanks everyone!  I finished 6th AG but there were only 4 K slots.  Being so early in the KQ period I didn't get my hopes up.  Turns out there was only 1 rolldown slot in the M40-44 and 2 in the M45-49.   A guy from Ireland got one and another from Austria....made their trips worthwhile.  Going in, I had no expectations of coming that close to KQ and was just happy to finally execute an IM fairly well.  Still lots of room for improvement....2014 is going to be epic.   I'll jot down some nutrition plan and race strategy notes when I get back home. 

Agreed, I envy that run.  Being able to run the competition down, as opposed to being run down (me), must feel incredible

Jim - must be really nice to get the monkey off your back in regards to nutrition.  Fantastic result.

Great result Jim...well done!  Nice job to Chris as well on the HM!

I have had early pneumonia type symptoms for the last 2 weeks.  Finally visited the doctor last week, got anti-biotic and am finally back to normal and resuming training.  I could just not shake that sickness...really knocked me down.

Plan to be on the bike 6x this week and in the pool 4x...time to work that weakness!

6x on the bike!  All specific workouts or some just riding?

Question - to swim 33min for HIM, what type of pool times do you think are needed.  Say the pace for 10x100M on :15 RI.

4 specific workouts, 1 recovery ride and 1 long ride.  My running is going to take a hit this winter, only running 2x week at this point.  I think I need to be dedicated to the bike/swim if I am going to the get results I am after.

So race day (for the distance) you were basically 15-20sec/100M slower than the 100's.  Is the difference in line with your expectations?  Trying to figure out where I need to get to in the pool, and this is a little disheartening. 

Well, remember that open water can be funny for a few reasons. I was definitely getting at least a few seconds under 1:30/100M going into a couple swims. Averaged 1:31/100M on the 2.5k open water one (sub 30 min HIM pace), but like 1:44/100M in the HIM for ~33 min. Think something was off with the swim there as times were generally a bit slow and I wasn't swimming THAT much easier. Those were only 2 weeks apart.

I swam 27 at oceanside (wetsuit) and 30 at Miami, no wetsuit.  My bread and butter is 1:30/100 yds coming in at 1:15 working it, 1:20 comfortably.  On occasion we'll do a smaller number of 100s on the 1:20 sendoff.  But anything over 5X would likely be 1:30 sendoff.   We also do a lot of for example 6 x 100 on 1:30, 5 on 1:25, 4 on 1:20, etc., but try to keep the same pace for all 100s.  I've found this to be invaluable, for pacing and focus

You are looking at a 1:34 OW pace (yds).  I'd say you need to be on the 1:40 interval coming in 1:25-30

But yes, as mentioned, OW is a funny thing.  To your expected pace you can add (1) taper (2) wetsuit (3) draft (4) race performance, but subtract (1) course meassurement  (2) sighting and navigation (3) conditions (4) where the timing mats are (here in Cal. they are often way up the beach).