I'm "considering" (read: pretty much firmly decided) doing the Haney to Harrison 100K Ultra run on November 4th. Keep in mind that I've only ever done one marathon before.
Have you ever run 100m? Well, take that number, and multiply it by a thousand.
Yeah.
I want to say that I'll see how I feel after my second marathon on October 9th, but really I think I'm committed already. My only concern is poor Robin, who will have to get up at like 2am and be my support crew until 5pm or so, depending on when I finish. Do I want to put her through that? It doesn't seem like a lot of fun to be driving in a truck all day...
Yesterday, when I decided to do this, my plan was to get to 50k. I can do that with "ease" I'm sure. But over the course of about 13 seconds, that changed to "finish the whole 100K."
In any case it should be fun. Hah!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Lessons Learned
Yesterday was the Vancouver Triathlon, Olympic distance.
My time: 2:29:10, 78/271 in the Oly distance overall, 10/25 in my age group. 5 minutes faster and I would have moved up to 6th.
My time in March at the UBC Triathlon was about 2:36, in a swim where I blew my shoulder in the first lap, and didn't have aerobars on my bike.
The moral: despite the many many hours of training I've put in since March (6 months), my time really hasn't improved much, if at all. My riding leg was good and hard, and my swim was about 5 minutes faster than before thanks to my Ironman Stealth wetsuit. My run was slower than before though due to going a little too hard on the bike, so everything balances out (though I'm not convinced that the run distance was more than 10k...it felt really long compared to other races/training I've done).
In order to get good in this sport, you really have to put in a LOT of hours. Natural talent can only take you so far.
Now, it's possible that I'm simply not as good at shorter distances (my first marathon was 3:32 back in May, a time that was very good compared to the other 3550 racers, and a race in which I placed 442nd) and my times in a half IM and IM will be better, but I think I really need to use this race as a reminder that I need to put in the hours if I want to hit a podium finish (probably less than 2:15 for this age group).
2 weeks of heavy running begins tomorrow or Thursday (if my legs aren't too tired still) so I can try to improve my marathon time by 15 minutes for the Thanksgiving weekend in Kelowna. Thankfully running is my best leg by far (49th out of 271 for the Oly. distance in this race, 4th in my AG) so I think a 15 minute reduction is possible.
Hopefully my legs won't hurt as bad this time...
My time: 2:29:10, 78/271 in the Oly distance overall, 10/25 in my age group. 5 minutes faster and I would have moved up to 6th.
My time in March at the UBC Triathlon was about 2:36, in a swim where I blew my shoulder in the first lap, and didn't have aerobars on my bike.
The moral: despite the many many hours of training I've put in since March (6 months), my time really hasn't improved much, if at all. My riding leg was good and hard, and my swim was about 5 minutes faster than before thanks to my Ironman Stealth wetsuit. My run was slower than before though due to going a little too hard on the bike, so everything balances out (though I'm not convinced that the run distance was more than 10k...it felt really long compared to other races/training I've done).
In order to get good in this sport, you really have to put in a LOT of hours. Natural talent can only take you so far.
Now, it's possible that I'm simply not as good at shorter distances (my first marathon was 3:32 back in May, a time that was very good compared to the other 3550 racers, and a race in which I placed 442nd) and my times in a half IM and IM will be better, but I think I really need to use this race as a reminder that I need to put in the hours if I want to hit a podium finish (probably less than 2:15 for this age group).
2 weeks of heavy running begins tomorrow or Thursday (if my legs aren't too tired still) so I can try to improve my marathon time by 15 minutes for the Thanksgiving weekend in Kelowna. Thankfully running is my best leg by far (49th out of 271 for the Oly. distance in this race, 4th in my AG) so I think a 15 minute reduction is possible.
Hopefully my legs won't hurt as bad this time...
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