Monday, August 8, 2011

Windsor Race Report

WOW I never thought I would blow up that bad. Immediately after the race I wanted to pretend it never happened and just move on to the next. However, there is something you can learn from every race.
Things I learnt this weekend:

I bike like a girl (no offense I know some girls are really good but the fastest guys are faster than the fastest girls). Actually I only beat the fastest girl by 2 seconds.

If I want to race to my best I need to block everything out and focus on my race. I got a bit caught up with the whole my first elite race. While I had a great swim (1:40/100m without a wetsuit) and first part of the bike (probably around 45kmh for the first 6 km) I blew up and pretty much crawled the last half of the bike and the run. Maybe had I started out a bit slower I would have been able to finish strong with a quicker total time.

Lastly, patience. Which is funny because I have seen this pop up a couple places lately like http://gerard.cc/2011/08/01/trait-6-of-champions/ from Gerard Vroomen of Cervelo. I would be crazy to think that after a year and a half of truly training for triathlons that I would be able to beat some of the fastest guys in Canada. My parents were talking to Andrew Yorke before the race and he said he has been doing triathlons for SEVEN years. If I could keep up with a guy like that after one year I would sell my training plan to everyone and become a millionaire. If I keep working like I have been and seeing the improvements I have seen so far I have no doubt I will be able to stick with the top in triathlon. Just look at my swim results from this year compared to last. Last year I did one non wetsuit swim and it was 500m in Belle River and I averaged 2:24/100m this weekend I averaged 1:40/100m for 800m.

However now it is time to focus for age group nationals. I am leaving in ten days and I have to shake off this weekend and move on. I haven't done any track workouts in a while as I have been focusing so much on the bike so Thursday I will be on the track, both Tuesdays and Saturday will be some hard zone 5 bike intervals, and I will probably get in a good swim TT either end of this week or beginning of next week with a couple other hard swims in there.

So not truly a race report, but this will probably be more helpful to anyone that reads it then if I just wrote a summary of the race. I hope everyones training is going well as the end of the season approaches. Take advantage of the warm weather because there will be snow soon enough. Cheers

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