"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine
This was my first race of the season, I was really excited about this race. I've been training pretty constantly since November, so I was looking forward to see if the work I've put in as paid off. The race took place in Savannah, I left Atlanta the day before after work and stayed with my friend Torrie (THANKS again !!). I crawled into bed around 10 but I couldn't really sleep I woke up at 2ish and just rolled around in bed till 4:30. I ate my breakfast and made sure I was drinking fluids. I tried to be quite when I was leaving the house but I end up waking up the dogs, so I'm not sure if I had woken up everyone else in the house. Whoops
My setup |
Transition Area |
The Swim
The gun went off at 7:00 I had positioned my self towards the middle of the pack. It was a full contact swim for the first 100 meters. I got kick in the head by someone that it took me a second to recover and then I had someone else grab my leg, not really sure if it was an accident though. After that I was able to find my rhythm. and some clean water. I realized I need to work on my swimming more because it took me a few seconds shy of 10 mins to cover the 500 yards. I'm glad the swim was over I was starting to get a little hot in that water! Turns out I didn't fall getting out of the water and I was able to run to T1 with no problems!The Bike
The bike course was flat it reminded me a lot of biking back home in Miami. It was a one loop course, with very light traffic and basically zero wind. I settled in at a little faster pace then I was expecting, I was staying between 20-23. At the half way point I was averaging about 21, I decide to pick up the pace a little. End of averaging 22.04. This was the first race I've done with my new race set up It included Victoria Open Corsa Evo race tires, a wheel cover, and the Rudy Project Wingspan. I'm not quite sure how much of a difference the new equipment made but it defiantly felt a lot faster. I felt great the entire time, I was hurting a little bit towards the end of the bike but kept pushing it.
The Run
I got to the run thinking, I was going to be in trouble because I thought I had pushed the bike a little to hard. I ran out of T2 and actually felt pretty good, my last race my legs felt like they were about to fall off, but this time they felt like jello. Even though they were feeling strange I was still moving I went out at 6:50 miles for the first 1/4 before I turned settled in at around 7:50 miles. The run was a 2 loop course around the lake it was flat and my first lap was pretty empty. there was a lot of shade running by the lake, there was water station right when you came out of T2/starting lap 2. I wasn't hurting to bad till the 2.5ish mark, I started to ramp up my speed at this point trying to catch some guy I thought was in my AG. End up closing the gap, but turns out he wasn't in my AG. I felt like that I finished with a little bit of gas in my tank, I could have maybe gone a little harder in mile 2 where my avg pace was 8:05.
Top 3 AG 20-24 |
2nd Place 20-24 AG Award |
Swim 9:57
Bike 35:03
Run 22:39
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