Rarely Runs Races Rapidly

Oh the shame.... Oh the soul crushing guilt

I never put up a report on my last race.

I did better than the prior one. Overall I went down two minutes which is good progress. Oddly enough I was two minutes slower on the swim this time and I added about a minute with a slower transition time. Last time I managed to skip just ahead of the crowd before the first turn. Not this time though. I ran right into the bastards at the buoy then was fighting my way through and getting stopped.

The bike was better. I stayed aero the vast majority of the time and ended up just under 19mph average (1mph better than last time). When I started out there was an older guy ahead of me. He was in a t-shirt and on an older, standard road bike, but this guy had legs like tree-trunks. You could tell he'd been doing this for years and years. It took me 12 miles, but I finally passed him and pulled away. Still, had he decided to, I'm pretty sure he could have blown me away any time he wanted.

The run was also better, but not fast. Which makes sense, because I'm not very fast even on training. Over the last month I've come to realize that I need to put in more mileage before I can work on any real speed at a 5k or 10k race. There aren't any shortcuts around that. So, I'm upping my mileage aiming for a 10k workout plan.

Anyway, on a more important topic, yesterday as I was coming in from a run, Ning and Daughter were just coming out the front door to go out. Daughter saw me running and promptly started mocking me by jogging in the driveway. If you haven't seen it, a two year old jogging, not running but jogging, is a pretty amusing thing to watch. She was trying to lift her legs more and hold her arms up by her side. She was also explaining that she was running in case someone misunderstood. Cute, but also a good example that kids might not listen to what you say all the time, but they sure as hell watch what you do.