Friday, June 20, 2008

Friday- Pre-Race Day

Eat lots and lots of fruits and drink lots and lots of water. Today is all about getting mentally ready (along with eating the right foods). Aside from the mental aspect, today will be a very long stretch, concentration on increasing flexibility. That means the stretch should hurt a little (30 second on and 20 off). Follow up with plenty of water after the stretch to absorb lactic and other acid build up.

Tomorrow will be my first olympic distance triathlon. This is yet another set on the road to knock out a half ironman and eventually a full ironman.

An olympic distance tri has the following standard distances:
-1500 meter swim (just less than a mile, which is 1600 meters)
-26 bike ride
-10 kilometer run (6.2 miles)

GOALS:
Swim- 34 minutes (avg pace of 2:15/100m)

T1- 4 minutes
Bike- 70 minutes (avg pace of 23mph)

T2- 2 minutes
Run- 49 minutes (avg pace of 8 min/mi)

TOTAL TIME- 2 hours 39 minutes
PLACE- TOP 3 in Group (Clydesdale)
TOP 5 in Age (25-29)
TOP 20 in Gender (Male)
TOP 30 Overall

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