Pshorty's Group-GO NATHAN!!! (Page 30)

I DESTROY ALL ICE CREAM!!!

Sounds like that triathlon is set up pretty crappily. I would avoid it as well.

Ice cream destroys me too. I really like Phish food from ben and jerry's but it makes me really ill.

A couple of weeks ago I ate so much ice cream in one sitting, I woke up the next morning and told my wife that I was pretty sure that I had given myself diabetes. My current favorite is Ben and Jerry's "everything but the".

NYT has a lot of articles about triathlon, don't they? I agree with everything here and I think that most people would, too. If you want to run your best 1/2 marathon or marathon you need to run buckets of miles with very little cross-training--just enough for injury prevention. I don't know that anyone expects to run their best 1/2 marathon as part of an HIM.

Incidentally, I saw Desiree Ficker (who is quoted in the article) run at the Olympic trials. I yelled out "Go Ficker!!" as she went by and she heard me and smiled so I think we are pretty much dating now.

Had my first swim in open water this weekend. I went camping so I brought my wet suit with me. The water was very cold but once I got moving it was ok. My face was the coldest part, hands and feet were ok. I found that I got tired way to quick, not sure if i was just going to fast or what but I did enjoy it so I will be going back in soon.

Your race is this weekend, right? GOOD LUCK!!!

I'm gloating over the perfect weather we had today.  And here are the pics of where I start nearly all of my rides:

 

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Pretty place, Bill!!

This weekend is Nathan's big race. Right, Nathan?

GO NATHAN!!

Nathan ran a 1:39 at the ING Ottawa Half-Marathon. One minute faster than his goal time. GOOD JOB, NATHAN!!!

That's hauling a$$, Nathan!  Nice run.

The race weekend went perfect.
I took Friday off work to drive to Ottawa so I wouldn`t have to rush getting there. It`s about a 5 hour drive without stopping, however I stopped along the way. Once, for coffee, then I met up with my parents (they were camping the week prior and ending it at Ottawa). We stopped for lunch in a nice little town an hour outside Ottawa. Altogether it took us 7 hours.
On Saturday we went into Ottawa, picked up the race kit and walked around downtown. We went back to our campsite in the afternoon as it had an indoor swimming pool and my kids wanted to go swimming. I went for a lite jog and then joined them in the pool. We went to my cousins` house for dinner.
The race had a 9:00 start (which I really like) the full mara started at 7:00). Having done this race last year and reviewing the race map I was ready. I started looking for my coral and I was quite shocked at how close to the start line I was. It took 34 seconds to get to the start. I had written in marker on the back of my hand the 3 goals I had to hit (5, 11 and 16 km times). I`ve tried the wrist bands but they never work well once the get covered in sweat and water. The first KM I was way too fast, under 4:00 min, then by km 5 I was more then a minute under my time that I required. My wife, kids and parents were near the 11km marker so I was pleased when I was able to see them. My dad took some good pics, I will post them.
The race started to get hard around the 14km point mentaly, so I just focussed on getting to the 16 km marker on time, after I did that I knew it was all flat to the finish line. The last 750 meters was tough and my heart rate sky rocketed to 105%. My avaerage for the race was very high as well, 94%.
Post race, I grab my food and drinks and started looking for a place to stretch, the legs were and still are sore.
We went back to the camp site where my parents had to leave, after saying good bye I went for a swim with the boys.
On Monday we had to pack in the rain, then we all went for another swim before we left for the long ride home.
I was pleased with my time 1:39:04 and the fact that I placed 541 out of 8300 ish.
Thanks for all your support guys.
Nathan

That is a really, really nice place finish, Nathan.  And it sounds like a really nice weekend all around.

here is a couple of pics, thats my wife and oldest son on my right.

Wow. Way to go Nathan! You are a fast runner. Nice job!

pics didn`t work, will try again tomorrow and thanks again everyone.

trying again







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Nathan--Does this mean that you need to retest your HR zones? If you are going much past 100%, it would seem that your zone estimates may be low. I don't know that much about HR training so I will ask around.

-Paul

Question, when you say your HR was 105%, does that mean it was 105% of your resting heart rate?  In other words, double your resting HR? Or does that mean it was 5% over your max HR?

 

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