Never posted about my race so mini report on musselman.
Mentally this was a tough one since GF couldn’t race with the broken hand and since I barely trained I knew I could finish but basically didn’t care.
Swim I started further back than I planned but ended up being close to my actual time 35:23 on the swim. It was borderline wetsuit legal and I Didn’t bring a swim skin, can’t really swim in my race kit so was glad it was wetsuit. Pretty much just lazily moved my arms and dragged my legs, 0 Fs given, maybe my slowest swim ever? but that was on maybe 5 swims all year, so it is what it is.
T1 went quickly despite 0 effort to get through it efficiently.
Bike went better than expected I held back on the first half quite a bit to get through the climbs and then just negative split the crap out of the back half, where the downhills helped a little. Even with it going well at mile 40 for some reason I was like if I see a way to stop and get back I’m done. that didn’t last long. 2:36 I think that was 151 overall on the bike so really nothing to complain about given the lack of training.
Run, I felt good off the bike and went out hot, knew it but was like whatever going to crack eitherway just keep going, that didn’t last long. First lap of 2 I ran everything but aid stations and the major hills (2). Lap 2 I did a run walk split 2:15
Total time 5:35, obviously nothing to complain about with the lack of training and well also because its a decent time.
so anyway no more tris this year but I’ve actually trained more the last 3 weeks than I have any other week this year. I think only week I broke 10 hours was on vacation where i golfed for 4 of those 10 and the rest were hikes with the Tot on my back. AI FTP put me at 304 the day of the race which ties my record high for 2015, so working on trying to crush that.
Kind of have the itch to finally do a full next year since I’ll be 45, haven’t decided and can’t exactly justify the expense especially since my dad is thinking cozumel. GF gets first choice on 70.3 we do since she didn’t race this year, right now she wants Mont Tremblant, the opposite of flat fast bike course I usually like.
Only race left is a localish event where you race a train (not at the same time for safety ) up a hill ~15 miles. They don’t seem to post any results and only thing I found stalking FB/strava was someone doing like an hour flat at 200 watts and beating it so I’ll have no problem beating the train, and want to try and do like 300 watts for the whole distance as a goal.
. So overall a bit of a crap day but that’s life. I think that is probably me done with full distance IM. Gonna focus on cycling and the odd shorter distance tri from now on.
was okay, lost 2 minutes with a toilet stop but ran up from 72nd to 43rd… should have been top 40 really.
