ok so i'm gonna copy this post over to the eec seckshun to...
on octoberer 22 i did the iren man race in willmington north caralina. that was a saterday by the way. i left home in mishigin on tuesday afore the race. i got bout 6 hours in to my drive when i got a text from dr. hydro phd from over to march 09 (he was doin the haff iren man race the same day and he set us up with a place to stay.) well sinse i was drivin i cood not reed it at the time so i got my car to reed it to me. it went some thing like 'holey shit! did you just see the email from iren man?' course i dint cuz i was drivin so i pulled off a the hiway to reed the email. well man they were cuttin the bike corse down from 112 to 50 miles on a count of the herracane mathew what went thru. well shit. i did all that trainin and now i wood not be able to do the full race. at first i was pist. then i thot bout the peepel what lost houses and cars and roads and dissided they reely dint need to worry bout my racin. so i called up my coach to see how i shood change my game plan. only i got her voise mail. then i called dr hydro phd and we talked a bit bout it and then my coach called me back so i took that call and wood talk to dr hydro later. so any way i was talkin stratagys with coach and she said that she was in calafornya gettin marryed. on a tuesday. how crazy is that. any ways we came up with the stratagys that i used to race. mostly. any ways i cood go on bout the pre race stuff but i will skip rite to the race. but one importint thing happined. they found 6 extra miles for the bike to get us to 56. that was a big deal for the haff iren man fokes on a count of there race wood be the full 70.3.
it was bout 46 degrees at 5 am in the mornin when i got up for the last time. see i got up at 2 am in the mornin for my brekfest what was only a cuppel a them ensure drinks. any ways we were only bout a 1/4 mile from the first transishun area ware the bikes were racked. it rained the nite afore cuz i wanted to go over and take a pickshure of the bikes. prolly 3000 of um. we figgerd there was prolly $10 million dollers a bikes out there. any ways it was 46 degrees when i went to get stuff set up. i was only warin a tshirt and shorts but soon i wood be putin on the wet suit so no biggy. the other thing bout the wether was the wind she was a blowin. 20-25 mph. that is importint later. well i set up my bike stuff. mixed my nutrishun up and got it on the bike then got on the bus to the swim start.
the swim is point to point in a channel what has salt water and they say the tide will push you. now normely i figger a hour and 15 or 20 minits to swim 2.4 miles. well at the start area i jump in the water on a count of it bein 75 degrees and warmer then the air. i saw brother mike land there in the water and we did some warm up swimmin but mike says he was gonna wait til near the end to get in at the start. well man the cannin goes off and peepel start goin thru the start arch and in to the water. i got in pritty erly. well man i cant swim a strait line to save my life but i was doin pritty good this year. evin tho i forgot to un fog my goggels. any ways it must be true that it pushes you cuz i finished in a hour and 2 minits! now i dont no the total numbers but there was sposed to be round 1600 racers there. i was #36 in my groop, #311 for men and #390 total to come out a the water. and i had a good first t1 time a just 10 minits.
out to the bike. rememember that wether report bout the wind. all most strait in to it rite a way for a few miles. then a cross wind for prolly the next 15 or 20 miles what set us up for a nuther 15+ miles dead nuts in to the wind. this is ware stratagys pay off. im workin on heart rate and power both and man theres a lot a peeple passin me up. evin tho im goin harder then i shood. finely some wares round mile 41 we turned back to town and got the tail wind. agin i did the stratagy and dint fall in to temptashun and go 40 mph balls out. i stayed eezy and let some more pass me. not to many tho. and man we cood look cross the road and see the peepel fitin the wind. it ackshully looked worse then it felt. any ways bout a mile out we hit a brige with a pritty nasty hill. bout 200 yards up the hill i shifted and dropped my chain. so i had to get off a my bike. fix the chain. then start up agin goin up hill. that sucked. they say i did the bike in 3 hours and 13 minits for 17.37 mph average what was may be only a haff mph off a what i hoped for. at this point my ranks are 65 in the groop 441 for men and 541 over alls. so you can do the maths to figger out how many peepel past me up. mostly. cuz i did pass a few to. speshully late on the bike. i did kind of a slow t2 in 8 minits on a count of i was mixin my nutrishun for the run in t2. if i dint do that it wood a been like 3 or 4 minits tops.
then out to the run. it was still pritty cool which was good. but man a mile in there was a nasty hill comin of the river what shood a just had steps on in cuz it was like findin your seat in a stadeum. well this is ware stratagys reely pay off. coach says save it for the run. she wants me to have a goal for the run and go for it. my goal is 10 minit miles on avrige. that will include walkin in all the aid stashuns. it will get me done in 4 hours and 20 minits. she also wants negative splits. well man i get goin and i can not make my self run slow. i was doin 8 minits or 8:15 miles and i keep tryin to go slower. only the aid stashuns helped slow me down. well the first loop turn round was at bout 7 miles and i hit it at darn near 1 hour on the nose... still to fast. i got to the haff way mark and out for loop 2 at under 2 hours. but man i no i cant keep that pace up for 13 more miles and negative split. i take longer walks thru the first cuppel a aid stashuns and up that big hill from the first mile. but man im not givin up and walkin miles this time. i get to the 3/4 turn round just over 3 hours in. then i started gettin the chafeing on my legs ware they got wet from stickin spunges in my racin kit. and things started to slow down. then some thing happined. as i was walkin thru a aid stashun a guy past me. he had 54 on his caff. thats his age. thats my age groop. 50-54. no. feckin. way. this dude was not gonna finish afore me! and i past his ass. and for the last 3 and a haff miles evry buddy what past me at a aid stashun i past rite back. i dint evin stop at the final aid stashun. no sir. i hammerd home. i finished in 4:07. thats less then 9:30 a mile. my final ranks 29 in groop. 248 in men. 308 in total. you do the maths.
stratagys a save it for the run. it worked.
finely tho i talked with some other racers after and we all agreed that if we had to do the full 112 miles we wood a been cooked. we wood have had to go 25 more miles in to that dead nuts wind and only got cross winds and a wee tail wind for the rest.
