Sunday, August 23, 2009
two-zero
Twenty hours is apparently the time needed to be spent on training so that I actually feel like I'm training. It also appears to be the magic number where I can stop gaining weight just by looking at food. Both those observations are a bit disturbing; what's going to happen over winter? But hey, I'm really training again!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Blood, Sweat, and Beers trail run race 2009
Fleet Feet Sacramento held the inaugaural Blood, Sweat, & Beers trail race today. It was held in Auburn (endurance capital of the world) on supposedly some of the Western States course. Granted, since I just moved here this year, it wouldn't have mattered whether it was the first year or not except that they ran out of free beer and my friends and I had to wait around forever for them to get back. But that's not why I ran this race, oh wait maybe it was.
Race started at 8am, in waves. I went in the first wave since it was supposed to be 9 min and under milers. I had no idea what I could run since this was 3 weeks after Lake Placid and super hilly and traily. I figure I will decide in the first couple miles like last weekend when I decided during the swim. I start out, just trying to run with the pack, which is going surprisingly fast. It started on grass, then pavement, then a steep big descent on the trail. I hate descending, I hate descending even more on unstable trail. Slowed down and I think got a bunch of people stuck behind me. Then onto level trail and everything starts to blend together. What I have come to notice at most races is that many people can beat me on the descents but then I power up the uphills. So the girls that were impatiently stuck behind me going down got passed on the up and were never seen again.
Kept running, trying to go as hard as possible without tripping over my feet or the roots or the rocks. Sprint the straightaways, don't walk on the uphills, and don't fall down the downhills. Most of the hills were vertical, which made for interesting ups and downs.
I remember wanting to puke somewhere around 3 or 4 miles. Around 9 or 9.5 miles I started to lose concentration and almost tripped on roots twice. Mad sprint to the finish and crossed for a chip time of 1:32:44. This made for 2nd in the F20-29 age group and 7th woman, though don't know how many total. Overall 35/337 finishers though. Top 10%!
I think I can say I am mainly satisfied with the race. Saw the highest heart rate ever (196 bpm) and got the nausea feeling. I am not really sure where I could have run harder and still stayed uprigh.
Race started at 8am, in waves. I went in the first wave since it was supposed to be 9 min and under milers. I had no idea what I could run since this was 3 weeks after Lake Placid and super hilly and traily. I figure I will decide in the first couple miles like last weekend when I decided during the swim. I start out, just trying to run with the pack, which is going surprisingly fast. It started on grass, then pavement, then a steep big descent on the trail. I hate descending, I hate descending even more on unstable trail. Slowed down and I think got a bunch of people stuck behind me. Then onto level trail and everything starts to blend together. What I have come to notice at most races is that many people can beat me on the descents but then I power up the uphills. So the girls that were impatiently stuck behind me going down got passed on the up and were never seen again.
Kept running, trying to go as hard as possible without tripping over my feet or the roots or the rocks. Sprint the straightaways, don't walk on the uphills, and don't fall down the downhills. Most of the hills were vertical, which made for interesting ups and downs.
I remember wanting to puke somewhere around 3 or 4 miles. Around 9 or 9.5 miles I started to lose concentration and almost tripped on roots twice. Mad sprint to the finish and crossed for a chip time of 1:32:44. This made for 2nd in the F20-29 age group and 7th woman, though don't know how many total. Overall 35/337 finishers though. Top 10%!
I think I can say I am mainly satisfied with the race. Saw the highest heart rate ever (196 bpm) and got the nausea feeling. I am not really sure where I could have run harder and still stayed uprigh.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Folsom Olympic Tri
Folsom Olympic Tri
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Overall: 136/451
Female: 19/147
Age group: 1/2
Swim - 30:24.1
T1 - 3:59.6
Bike/T2 - 1:14:08.8
Run - 46:56.7
Total - 2:35:29.3
I did this race for fun. It's right in Folsom - swimming in Lake Natoma; biking along the trail, past work, and out into parts I've never rode on; and running along the trail which I've done numerous times. I had a friend from master's swim doing it and then I found out another woman I had met back in March at the ride in Sonoma County was also doing it. Kind of expensive for an olympic race, though I think prices are going up nowadays across the distances. AND since I finally legitimately won my age group I got some free schwag that made up for it anyways.
So luckily didn't have to get up super early since it was barely a 10 minute drive from my apartment to the race site. No assigned racks unless you were part of a club, and since I was racing in my usually FIT jersey I have no club affiliation. Found my friends before the race and got into the water about 3 minutes before my wave was to start. Lake Natoma is cold (somewhere in the mid 60s I think) so wasn't too interested in being in the water more time than necessary. Luckily today my feet didn't go numb and my chip didn't fall off my ankle even though the strap got loose at the beginning. Couldn't really see the buoys at all so mostly just trying to follow the caps in front of me. On the way out the sun was in my eyes and on the way back the buoys were not in a straight line!
T1 wasn't as long as I thought, though it felt like I was dawdling in there forever. Got on the bike, first/last parts were on the bike trail, then onto the road for an out and back course. For some reason I thought the course was flat and I wore my aero helmet. However, it was not like a pancake, though not super hilly either. Got passed by one woman on the bike and passed a few myself. Not really pushing too hard, just trying to keep going. The scariest part was seeing so many people on the side of the road with flat tires.
Back into T2 and I think this was one of my faster T2s. Ran out and was kind of worried because my legs didn't quite feel upbeat. Got passed by one female who was definitely clipping along so I figured I just had to keep her in my sights. Saw another female up ahead. Tried to keep a 7:30-8 minute pace on the way out along the trail and tried to count how many females were ahead. Legs found themselves between the 2 and 3 mile mark so was able to push the way back and pass a few women. One woman did come flying by and I tried to hang on but she was flying.
As usual, felt good at the end. Guess I still need to learn Olympic distance pacing. Still, set a PB and finally went sub-2:40 despite doing an Ironman two weeks ago. The funny thing is that they seemed to have forgotten my age group at the awards so my friend went up and pointed that out. Got a lot of free schwag! A medal, bottle of wine, goggles, tshirt, some other stuff. Not too bad! Next up, a trail run in Auburn that has free beer at the end.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Overall: 136/451
Female: 19/147
Age group: 1/2
Swim - 30:24.1
T1 - 3:59.6
Bike/T2 - 1:14:08.8
Run - 46:56.7
Total - 2:35:29.3
I did this race for fun. It's right in Folsom - swimming in Lake Natoma; biking along the trail, past work, and out into parts I've never rode on; and running along the trail which I've done numerous times. I had a friend from master's swim doing it and then I found out another woman I had met back in March at the ride in Sonoma County was also doing it. Kind of expensive for an olympic race, though I think prices are going up nowadays across the distances. AND since I finally legitimately won my age group I got some free schwag that made up for it anyways.
So luckily didn't have to get up super early since it was barely a 10 minute drive from my apartment to the race site. No assigned racks unless you were part of a club, and since I was racing in my usually FIT jersey I have no club affiliation. Found my friends before the race and got into the water about 3 minutes before my wave was to start. Lake Natoma is cold (somewhere in the mid 60s I think) so wasn't too interested in being in the water more time than necessary. Luckily today my feet didn't go numb and my chip didn't fall off my ankle even though the strap got loose at the beginning. Couldn't really see the buoys at all so mostly just trying to follow the caps in front of me. On the way out the sun was in my eyes and on the way back the buoys were not in a straight line!
T1 wasn't as long as I thought, though it felt like I was dawdling in there forever. Got on the bike, first/last parts were on the bike trail, then onto the road for an out and back course. For some reason I thought the course was flat and I wore my aero helmet. However, it was not like a pancake, though not super hilly either. Got passed by one woman on the bike and passed a few myself. Not really pushing too hard, just trying to keep going. The scariest part was seeing so many people on the side of the road with flat tires.
Back into T2 and I think this was one of my faster T2s. Ran out and was kind of worried because my legs didn't quite feel upbeat. Got passed by one female who was definitely clipping along so I figured I just had to keep her in my sights. Saw another female up ahead. Tried to keep a 7:30-8 minute pace on the way out along the trail and tried to count how many females were ahead. Legs found themselves between the 2 and 3 mile mark so was able to push the way back and pass a few women. One woman did come flying by and I tried to hang on but she was flying.
As usual, felt good at the end. Guess I still need to learn Olympic distance pacing. Still, set a PB and finally went sub-2:40 despite doing an Ironman two weeks ago. The funny thing is that they seemed to have forgotten my age group at the awards so my friend went up and pointed that out. Got a lot of free schwag! A medal, bottle of wine, goggles, tshirt, some other stuff. Not too bad! Next up, a trail run in Auburn that has free beer at the end.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
T1
Jocelyn wants an explanation of why my T1 was so long. First of all, Mirror Lake and the Olympic Oval (transition changing tents, bike racks, gear racks, etc.) are not exactly next to eachother. You stagger out of the water, get your wetsuit ripped off, then have to run down Mirror Lake Drive, cross Main Street, and finally you get into transition area. You're still wet, carrying your wetsuit, and the carpet is slippery.
.1 mile run in no shoes!
And then I had brought both helmets and had to decide which and then put the number sticker on, and stuff my pockets with rain jacket, tubes, pump, etc. Then had to get bike and stuff it with food. Then finally got to mount line in a chaos of people and had to get on bike without falling off.
Plus I normally always have long T1s anyways. Taking my time!
.1 mile run in no shoes!And then I had brought both helmets and had to decide which and then put the number sticker on, and stuff my pockets with rain jacket, tubes, pump, etc. Then had to get bike and stuff it with food. Then finally got to mount line in a chaos of people and had to get on bike without falling off.
Plus I normally always have long T1s anyways. Taking my time!
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