SpinDizzy Du(s) A season in one post
I decided rather than posting every 2 weeks :eek:, I would just do one long post at the end of the season. I did 7/9 races offered by The Subaru Triathlon Series. (posted below) It was a mediocre season; I did not PB one race this year. A few podium finishes and an overall 2nd in my age group for the season. It really lacks significance when there was no improvement in rbr. (run/bike/run)
The forest fiasco :eek: (Niagara) refers to the situation that developed when the first place racer was so far ahead of the second place racer, coupled with the unfortunate misplacement of an arrow that caused a mass of humanity to go over a bridge (in lemming fashion) only to face another wall of humanity that somehow realized the error and had turned back. So they threw out the first run and T1. This was a race where I actually was ahead of one of the individuals that regularly beats me in my AG. I passed her twice and had an awesome transition. A small mental blow.
Yesterday's race - Mother Nature's contrary nature - after a summer of training in heat and humidity- she dropped the temps to 12 C, pumped up the wind machine and turned on the faucet. The triathletes got to "do a du" as well; the lake was way too choppy. I was happy not to have got blown off my bike - many others were not so fortunate. My feet were numb for the first km of the 2nd run. Should have worn the smart wool!
Will sit down with my coach in a few weeks to formulate plan for next year. It's a bit of downtime for this body.
2010 Races
Victoria - sunny, warm; 1:51:30 Rank 10/20
4K 21:14 (5:19) :59 30K 1:04:29 (27.9kph) :50 4k 24:08 (6:02)
Milton – rain: cool and cloudy; 2:01:50 Rank 2/4
2K 10:46 (5:23) :55 30k 1:05:02 (27.7kph) 1:12 7.5k 43:57 (5:52)
Guelph Lake 1 – hot and humid; 1:21:52 Rank 4/19
2K 10:04 (5:02) 1:20 19k 41:00 (27.8kph) 1:18 5k 28:12 (5:39)
Belwood – sunny, warm, windy; 1:52:08 Rank 4/7
2K 9:40 (4:50) :57 30k 1:01:48 (29.1kph) 1:08 7K 38:37 (5:31)
Niagara – cloudy, warm, windy, humid, forest fiasco; 1:37:21 Rank 5/10
(run #1 and T1 thrown out) 25k 56:24 (26.6 kph) :58 7k 40:00 (5:43)
Orillia- rain, cool, windy; 2:00:05 Rank 3/10
2K 10:15 (5:08) 1:00 33k 1:10:11 (28.2kph) 1:01 7k 37:41 (5:23)
Guelph Lake 2- cold (12 C), windy (33kph, gusts to 60) rain, 2:04:13 Rank 3/9
3K 15:28 (5:10) 1:26 30k 1:07:30 (26.7kph) 1:17 7k 38:35 (5:31)