well just getting over sunday's accenture
touch and go as to whether i was going to participate as i had been ill with summer cold come stomach flu come general nastiness for most of the week prior, ran 2 miles friday night which opened me up a bit and felt good so decided to race on sunday.
what can i say?
swim
I've done three smaller tri's this year and all of my swims have shown a lot of improvement, but then i came crashing down to reality on sunday. I don't think i'll ever get used to the boiling pot that is the accenture start. I seeded myself down the field, but never got into my rhythm + i just couldn't get any air into my lungs with the remnants of the bug in me.
bike
the fast forward seatpost really helped + the level of wind was pretty low on lake shore drive in Chicago. managed to average about 21mph for the 40K, took on a bottle of water and one of gatorade plus one gel and came in feelgin pretty good.
run
the first 3K felt great, my legs felt fresh (theres that seatpost and new fit working again i thought) and it looked as thought the years speed training was really helping and then it happened. Pain in my stomach like I have never experienced for the next 7K. It stopped me in my tracks about six times to let it subside, so i basically started a run - walk -run routine. As i entered the last 1000m some girl on the outbound leg shouted at me 'what are you doing dig deep, nearly there' i picked up the pace and trotted over the line promptly to (quite ungracefully) get very ill over some of the race staff who were cutting off the timing chips (thats the polite version at least
rule 1: maybe you shouldn't race when ill?
final time 2
31 for the international distance 1.4/40/10
swim 37.50 (ouch) T1 2.30 (ish) bike 1:12.30 T2 1.46 run 55.30 (or something around there)
Maybe i'll sign up for lake geneva in two weeks? i really wanted to break 2:40
have fun guys