13-12-2024, 09:28 AM
Hi TheEd, ok so the tri on Sunday went fairly well. I came in 8th out of 56 in my age cat, which was definitely better than expected.
- The swim was choppy and tough - 7/56
- The bike felt good - 16/56 (I might get a TT bike soon which will change things...)
- The run was hard but I felt I paced it ok and didn't have much left by the end - 7/56.
The run time was 21m51s so about 4:22/km pace.
This was made harder (slower) because of:
1. I stopped to sort out my shoe (tongue was twisted). Probably didn't cost much time but felt like an eternity!
2. The way out was along a beach path and the way back was along a road which was quite a bit higher up, so there were some steps / steep hill to get up to the road.
My current target is to be able to run a sub 21 minute 5k in a tri.
Based on recent training that pace seems about right though. I feel a 5k in a tri is about a minute slower than a standalone 5k and as mentioned before, I don't feel my form has been that amazing.
Garmin says my threshold pace is 4:19 at the moment and I also feel like that's the sort of pace I end up being able to hold in a 5k in a tri.
So that's how the race went.
- The swim was choppy and tough - 7/56
- The bike felt good - 16/56 (I might get a TT bike soon which will change things...)
- The run was hard but I felt I paced it ok and didn't have much left by the end - 7/56.
The run time was 21m51s so about 4:22/km pace.
This was made harder (slower) because of:
1. I stopped to sort out my shoe (tongue was twisted). Probably didn't cost much time but felt like an eternity!
2. The way out was along a beach path and the way back was along a road which was quite a bit higher up, so there were some steps / steep hill to get up to the road.
My current target is to be able to run a sub 21 minute 5k in a tri.
Based on recent training that pace seems about right though. I feel a 5k in a tri is about a minute slower than a standalone 5k and as mentioned before, I don't feel my form has been that amazing.
Garmin says my threshold pace is 4:19 at the moment and I also feel like that's the sort of pace I end up being able to hold in a 5k in a tri.
So that's how the race went.