Marvelous Manatees - Stronger than Ever! (Page 9)

Yes, the Pacing gig was pretty unorganized.  There were no pacer shirts, no pre-race pacer meetings, no instructions what-so-ever for the what we were supposed to be doing.   

I learned 4 minutes before the race that there was a 2nd 1:40:00 pacer.  So we didn't have a lot of time to plan how to work together.  At the 1-mile marker I was about 10 seconds ahead of pace and 10 seconds behind the other pacer and mile 2 I was about 15 seconds ahead and 15 seconds behind the other pacer. Mile 3 I was about 20 seconds ahead and at mile 4 I was about 30 seconds ahead and still 10-20 seconds behind the other pacer.  So I decided to put the breaks on and run my own pacing plan.  Over the following 8 miles I averaged 7:39 pace (one second over the planned pace) hitting 6 of those miles exactly at 7:39 min/mi.  I was still about 15 seconds ahead at the mile 12 marker so I eased up for the last 1.1 miles.  The course was .05 long and so I got a 7:37 GPS pace (one second under) and a total race time that was 10 seconds over.  I guess I needed to be 2 seconds under the GPS pace.  I always look at total run time at the mile markers to determine if I am on pace and don't look at the GPS data to determine if I am on pace but the GPS confirms that I was evert even paced and pretty close to what people were looking for.  The other pacer finished 40 seconds ahead of me.  When people caught me on the course I would them that I was bringing up the back of the pack at 1:40:00 and that the other pace was leading the pack at 1:39:30 and to just stick between us.  That is about exactly where we ended up, so despite the inorganization we were pretty good at improv.  

Nice job with the pacing. Sorry about the lack of pacer support, though. That saddens me. I love a race with good pacers!

Ugly Saturday weather, nice (but windy) Sunday weather for me. I was able to run Saturday, so I am declaring myself healed after 7-8 weeks of injury. I also swam a little Saturday. I'm trying to be conservative with my come back, so may hold off trying to do a little cycling til next week after I see how a few more runs treat me.

Which leads me to my race news - I transferred from Choo to Augusta. Since my training is basically 0 it just seemed like the smart thing to do. I'm not 100% sold on Augusta, but only getting 25% refund had i just canceled seemed silly.

I'm glad that you are healing up. Gotta ask, did you toss out those On Clouds? 

I'm glad that you were able to transfer.  You'll do fine with Augusta -- still a downriver swim and hilly bike. The run will be hot bit you have access to heat training and it's not like either of us have ever been to Chattanooga when the weather was not hot so... 

Ugly Saturday weather, nice (but windy) Sunday weather for me. I was able to run Saturday, so I am declaring myself healed after 7-8 weeks of injury. I also swam a little Saturday. I'm trying to be conservative with my come back, so may hold off trying to do a little cycling til next week after I see how a few more runs treat me.

Which leads me to my race news - I transferred from Choo to Augusta. Since my training is basically 0 it just seemed like the smart thing to do. I'm not 100% sold on Augusta, but only getting 25% refund had i just canceled seemed silly.

Yes, the Pacing gig was pretty unorganized.  There were no pacer shirts, no pre-race pacer meetings, no instructions what-so-ever for the what we were supposed to be doing.   

I learned 4 minutes before the race that there was a 2nd 1:40:00 pacer.  So we didn't have a lot of time to plan how to work together.  At the 1-mile marker I was about 10 seconds ahead of pace and 10 seconds behind the other pacer and mile 2 I was about 15 seconds ahead and 15 seconds behind the other pacer. Mile 3 I was about 20 seconds ahead and at mile 4 I was about 30 seconds ahead and still 10-20 seconds behind the other pacer.  So I decided to put the breaks on and run my own pacing plan.  Over the following 8 miles I averaged 7:39 pace (one second over the planned pace) hitting 6 of those miles exactly at 7:39 min/mi.  I was still about 15 seconds ahead at the mile 12 marker so I eased up for the last 1.1 miles.  The course was .05 long and so I got a 7:37 GPS pace (one second under) and a total race time that was 10 seconds over.  I guess I needed to be 2 seconds under the GPS pace.  I always look at total run time at the mile markers to determine if I am on pace and don't look at the GPS data to determine if I am on pace but the GPS confirms that I was evert even paced and pretty close to what people were looking for.  The other pacer finished 40 seconds ahead of me.  When people caught me on the course I would them that I was bringing up the back of the pack at 1:40:00 and that the other pace was leading the pack at 1:39:30 and to just stick between us.  That is about exactly where we ended up, so despite the inorganization we were pretty good at improv.  

Oh my gosh, Jim! I hope that everyone is OK. I'm sure shaken up at least. I know that you have someone at MSU.  How scary!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Yes, happy Valentine's Day to all. If you use Garmin and workout today you will get a nice Valentine's badge. It's nice to know that Garmin thinks I'm swell!

Ugly Saturday weather, nice (but windy) Sunday weather for me. I was able to run Saturday, so I am declaring myself healed after 7-8 weeks of injury. I also swam a little Saturday. I'm trying to be conservative with my come back, so may hold off trying to do a little cycling til next week after I see how a few more runs treat me.

Which leads me to my race news - I transferred from Choo to Augusta. Since my training is basically 0 it just seemed like the smart thing to do. I'm not 100% sold on Augusta, but only getting 25% refund had i just canceled seemed silly.

Ugly Saturday weather, nice (but windy) Sunday weather for me. I was able to run Saturday, so I am declaring myself healed after 7-8 weeks of injury. I also swam a little Saturday. I'm trying to be conservative with my come back, so may hold off trying to do a little cycling til next week after I see how a few more runs treat me.

Which leads me to my race news - I transferred from Choo to Augusta. Since my training is basically 0 it just seemed like the smart thing to do. I'm not 100% sold on Augusta, but only getting 25% refund had i just canceled seemed silly.

Yeah....7-8 weeks a lot of time for an injury.  I am sure you are glad to be back.  Yes...that it easy.  Don't go and do all-out 400m repeats like I did a few months ago after coming back from time off This just earned my another month of time off.  Build back up first.

I just saw this and thought that I would share:

Super League Triathlon (SLT) has continued its rapid expansion plans by acquiring the iconic New York and Chicago Triathlons.
The acquisition of two additional major city triathlons provides SLT with a stable of mass participation events in the USA, which also includes Malibu Triathlon. SLT acquired the New York and Chicago events from Life Time, Inc., which will continue to produce the two events this year.

I find this to be interesting because it seems to signal Life Time exiting triathlon. Are they going all in on gravel/mtb instead?  It looks like these were the only to triathlons that they had left.

With Leadville, Big Sugar, Silver Rush, Crusher in the Tusher, Tahoe, Unbound, and Sea Otter in their cycling quiver, it seems that way.