Here I am, a few days from the last tri of the season. I am just going to train through this one though, so it’s kind of anti-climatic for me since my A tri was over a month ago now. However, that doesn’t mean it’s not going to be an exciting weekend. I mean, it’s the wife’s 2nd tri of the year (3rd ever) and almost twice as long as her previous ones. She’s pretty nervous, and although grad school kept her from getting a full training schedule completed, she’s covered the distances in each individual sport so she’ll be fine. Also, my mom is doing the Du at the same time. This will be her second du ever and first in over 2 years. Combine that with my dad, sister, and myself racing, and needless to say there will be a lot going on Sunday morning.
The race is the Tri for Sight in Lexington, KY. It raises money for eye research at the University of Kentucky. It also happens to be the same event where my dad, sister, and I got our start in triathlon…so that makes it a little more meaningful. The race is an 800m pool swim (2 mile run for the du), an 18 mile light rolling hill bike, and a 4 mile run. It’s a very well run event, so I highly recommend it to people in the area. Plus, it has the best door prize raffle I’ve ever seen at a tri after the race. They raffle off stuff like $50 gift cards and Oakley sunglasses and the like…very exciting.
I will write a race report as usual, but can pretty much guarantee no pictures since the photographers are both racing…but oh well.
Anyways, I’m also about 3.5 weeks out from my other A race of the season, the Marine Corps Marathon. I think I’m ready for this too and am starting to get excited about it, although I have one more long training run to go (~21mi). My training for this one has been much more consistent than for Arizona in January, maybe because now that I’ve done a marathon, I have a greater understanding of the importance of the long run days, or maybe it’s just easier to train for a marathon through the late summer/early fall than it is through the winter. Either way, hopefully it will pay off and I can break 3:30…we shall see.
Alright, just for goals sake…I’m going to post my Tri for Sight race plan…then we can see how well I execute on Sunday:
Swim (800m pool)—16:30, my swim training has been pretty poor and there’s no wetsuit to help me here
T1—3:30, there is a .25 mile run from the pool to transition, thus the longer time
Bike (18.4 miles)—50:00, that’s around 22.5mph avg…we shall see
T2—1:30, some built in cushion there…hopefully will be less than a minute
Run (4 miles)—28:00, we’ll see how much my legs have left
Total—1:39:30, I’ll be very happy with a sub 1:40 performance
Previous course best (2006): 1:48:22
Results to come after the weekend
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