Black Diamond Analysis
My last tri of the 2004 season was yesterday, an olympic distance event. Well, sub-olympic as the bike course was 2 miles short due to construction.
I finished in 3:00:13. My swim was 39:33, bike was 1:22:33, and run was 50:11.
I had a slow swim, finishing in the 93rd percentile. I can chalk part of this up to foggy conditions - I knew during the swim itself I was taking more than the usual navigation breaks, and also pausing longer at some of them. But still, everyone else in the water faced the same situation and it isn't as if I were in the lead and had nobody to sight off of.
The bike was also slow, I was the 90th percentile. I averaged 16.03 mph, which is essentially what I want to average for the ironman. Clearly, I need some work on this as one would hope averaging 16 mph for an ironman would mean being able to average more for an olympic which is about 20% of the distance.
My run was a bright spot, at least for me. That split was the 56th percentile, substantially different than my performance in the other two legs.
I was 224th out of the water, dropped to 226th after the bike, and improved to 200th due to my run.
One thing, I've been slacking ever since Apple Capital. That tri and Hagg Lake are on far tougher courses and I finished just minutes slower than I did at Black Diamond.
What is also interesting to me if calculating how many minutes I would save if I were to become a 50th percentile athlete. For the swim, that meant 8 minutes, and for the bike, 10 minutes. For the run, less than 1 minute, more like 40 seconds. Clearly, my time is best spent working on the bike, and maintaining the swim and run. I could use swim improvement but the amount of effort for the payoff isn't worth it, when I need to work on the bike so much.
Anyway, I have one more run coming up, then I'm taking a week or so off before starting back up. The word for the 2005 season is: BIKE!
I finished in 3:00:13. My swim was 39:33, bike was 1:22:33, and run was 50:11.
I had a slow swim, finishing in the 93rd percentile. I can chalk part of this up to foggy conditions - I knew during the swim itself I was taking more than the usual navigation breaks, and also pausing longer at some of them. But still, everyone else in the water faced the same situation and it isn't as if I were in the lead and had nobody to sight off of.
The bike was also slow, I was the 90th percentile. I averaged 16.03 mph, which is essentially what I want to average for the ironman. Clearly, I need some work on this as one would hope averaging 16 mph for an ironman would mean being able to average more for an olympic which is about 20% of the distance.
My run was a bright spot, at least for me. That split was the 56th percentile, substantially different than my performance in the other two legs.
I was 224th out of the water, dropped to 226th after the bike, and improved to 200th due to my run.
One thing, I've been slacking ever since Apple Capital. That tri and Hagg Lake are on far tougher courses and I finished just minutes slower than I did at Black Diamond.
What is also interesting to me if calculating how many minutes I would save if I were to become a 50th percentile athlete. For the swim, that meant 8 minutes, and for the bike, 10 minutes. For the run, less than 1 minute, more like 40 seconds. Clearly, my time is best spent working on the bike, and maintaining the swim and run. I could use swim improvement but the amount of effort for the payoff isn't worth it, when I need to work on the bike so much.
Anyway, I have one more run coming up, then I'm taking a week or so off before starting back up. The word for the 2005 season is: BIKE!
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