Racine Post Race Analysis
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Racine Post Race Analysis
I decided to take a
My race report for the Spirit of Racine is up!
I’ve got to go back and post some for earlier races this year!
I’ve learned a lot of things thus far in life. I can only imagine the knoweldge I’ll have gained over the next 20+ years of life – some of the high points:
Okay that’s enough wisdom for the day. Last week was a stellar week of training. My friend Matt and I went up to Stevens Point, WI for a few days of training and to get away. It turned out to be a good week – and we even got to do a race! It was a sprint, I came in 1st overall – my first win in a Triathlon!
I am very happy on the results of the race – especially given what I had done the days before the race – 2×4+ hour rides, a 2.5 hour run, a 3.5 hour ride, lots of swimming. I averaged just under 300 watts on the bike leg for 45 minutes, and ran a 19:XX 5k at the end. It makes me pretty excited to do Racine this weekend.
I am very fatiqued after last week, I can feel those miles in my legs. Hopefully with a nice easy week planned this week I will recover well, and be fresh on Sunday. Hopefully the weather will be decent and it will be a fun day!
Next week starts the "Build" section of my training before IMWI. A lot of my training is going to focus on Race specific efforts and the like. I am planning to do two Key workouts each week
After that I have 2 secondary workouts each week
Plan will be to do most other workouts as easier efforts to try and be fresh for the above workouts. I plan to only do a swim on Saturday to try and ensure maximum awesomeness on the Sunday Brick.
Do this for three weeks, rest – try to break 2 hours at Pleasant Prairie, do a similar, but slightly smaller week, and rest hardcore for two weeks; kick ass in Madison.
Can’t believe that’s all that is left before IMWI.
Matt and I are in Stevens Point for a long training weekend and we found out there is a Sprint triathlon tomorrow.
We are going to do it. It will be awesome.
Then we’ll go ride 4 hours afterwards.
One of my biggest downfalls when it comes to triathlon (and before that swimming) is the expectations I place on myself. If I look back across all of my athletic career my best performances happened when I expected nothing, and usually when I least expected. Of course I have had many great performances when I expected it (i.e. when I was rested), but more often then not great performances usually come when I’m not looking for them.
I’ve always explained this to other people as me grasping to hard – I try, and try and reach for what I’m wanting and liked a greased watermelon away it goes.
Despite my best attempts I do occasionally fall into the habit of setting expectations and really focusing on an outcome – rather then focusing on doing my best. The concept of a Beginners Mind really helps me in this arena. It’s a good reminder that biases and expectations can hold us back from experiencing awesome things!
Update on last week’s training later.