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The difficult second album
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Cheers folks, Thought I heard someone alright 68 but didn't catch who it was. So a bit of a race report now.
Dublin city Triathlon
My A race for the year. Has been for the 2 years before this but never had a decent performance there. Rain wasn't ideal but would be the same for everyone so no point getting too caught up in it. Only real concern was the bike with the rain, I'm not the most confident bike handler anyway and the brakes on the TT aren't great even in the dry so would make it an interesting day. Down nice and early, quick warm up on the bike, racked and then a quick run warm up too. Felt good heading into this race, body was rested and legs felt good. Down to the swim start with the rest of my wave,
Swim 24.42
Not a bad swim today, closer to a few than I normally would be and even managed to beat Kurt
. Didn't get a great start and as usual some of the lads trying to start at the front should have been closer to the back, would be faster swim for everyone, Less gaps would open up between people an everyone would get a better draft. Anyway worked my way up through the group, never really had a draft and was over taking people throughout the whole swim, got to the turna round and worked hard to catch a small group before we finished. Caught them at the bottom turn and manage to get out in front of them. What was most pleasing was that it didn't take a whole lot out of me, felt goo getting out. New suit was nice too, not sure if it is much quicker but I didn't feel I was fighting it as much and as the race went on I wasn't getting tired from the suit.
T1 1.42
Not too bad, wetsuit bit slower to come off than my old one but nothing major, stayed relaxed and just got it done.
Bike 1.11.29
The problem with starting in the fourth wave is that the rest of the race is very busy. The whole bike course was packed. I probably took it a bit too careful on the back part of the bike course on the 1st lap or 2. Time was nothing spectacular and power was down a bit on where I would have liked it, positive is that once the road went up or on the flat I was constantly passing people. Think maybe 2/3 people passed and made it stick. AP was 190 with NP being 216. Would have been hoping for closer to 230 but not too far off. Few spikes but that was always going to happen with the few dead corners, but paced it much better up the hills than usual. Some of the other cyclists where just dangerous though, one lad passed me and tried to pass a girl about a bike length in front of me by shouting on your right at her and then cutting in the gap between the bikes and overtaking her on the left. Was a few inches from taking all three of us out. He then died going up the kyber. Overall happy-ish with the bike, without a doubt would have been faster on a dry course, would have been hoping for closer to 1.06. Looking back probably took it too careful on the corners but hard to tell at the time.
T2 1.22
No problems, shoes on quickly and out nice and quick.
Run 40.00
I'll start by saying the run was long, I was through 10km in 39.44. But chip time is what counts. Usually struggle on this run, it's where my race has fallen apart the last few years. Started well and thought about my run a lot more than in Caroline Kearney. Looking back at CK I got caught up in it a bit and started out too fast and wasn't thinking about what I was doing. This run was different, kept a close eye on heart rate and pace. Tried to keep my cadence high and the legs moving. Knew that it was more about keeping a consistent effort rather than pace on this course, the cross country had harder parts than others and coming down chesterfield avenue is faster. Only passed by 1 over the three laps and felt good. Built into the run and tried to negative split it to make sure I had legs at the end. Splits where
4.01, 4.05, 4.02, 3.56, 3.50, 4.08, 3.56, 3.52, 4.13, 3.41. So think I just about got my negative split. This was the most pleasing part of the race, my run pacing. It felt easy enough for the first 2/3 then it started to get tougher with the last 2 being very tough. Average heart rate was 169, means I could have maybe pushed a tiny bit harder at times but that's a very minor thing.
Overall 2.19.14 and 21st overall.
Pleased with this race, the body was good for it and the training all worked. Time is off what I would have wanted but with a dry bike course I would have definitely hit it and might have run faster on a drier course. What's pleasing as well is I know there is more there in the swim, while I am swimming well I'm still not feeling 100% swim fit, this year has had a few disruptions to it and struggled to get going with it again. The bike is good, getting better at pacing and the power is starting to come on the flats, just need to keep building the power and work on my descending. The run has probably come on the most this year, I'm starting to get closer to the times I want to be running and hopefully another winter of running (not disrupted by broken wrist, getting married and buying a house!) will see even more improvements in it. I'm hoping to carry some of the fitness from this race to Tri an Mhi sprint that will be my last race of the year before a few easy weeks and then into training for Outlaw half next year.0 -
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