5 Lessons Learned
1. Stay away from weird-strokers—breast strokers, side strokers, and other freak strokers with their frog kicking legs and flailing arms. Once you get caught behind one of these listing ships, you need a burst of speed and you need to give them wide berth to get around. I have one word for you weird-strokers: crawl baby crawl!
2. Swim straight, stupid: I zig zaged my way down the course. What’s that boat doing in my way—oops!
3. Tri does not recognize Indy cred: Riding a fixed gear bike in a Tri means the torturous drip of riders on bigger gears passing you by with occasional moments of glory as you muscle your way up steep hills because you have to keep your cranks moving. Everyone is too blinded by the latest Cervelo airfoil passing on the left to be impressed by your minimalist ride.
4. Not enough endurance training? You son are jogging the run—an ignominious end to a decent race. The wall came for me 2 miles early, run pace: 7:59. By comparison, my last mile in the MARATHON was a 7:20!
5. This bears repeating: If you spend the swim on your aerobic threshold, and repeatedly spike up to it on the bike, the run will suck.
Goals for the future
1. Have a strong all-around sprint tri. That means regularly training all three sports, including multi-sport days. I will emphasize open-water swimming skills, cardio endurance, some speed work and light weights.
2. Start training with a Tri-club.
3. Reward myself with a nice road bike.
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