Race Report. Lake Placid 2010
9th Place! Awesome result, season goals check.
The report for the coach: aka a detailed play by play –
Swim - Minus a huge speedsuit glitch, resulting in me borrowing a women’s medium PZ3 (fits great!) a perfect swim. I stayed with a good group and swam comfortably on feet for pretty much the entire swim. The beginning was a bit crazy as usual. But I stayed in a pretty good spot and faired ok.
Long ass run to T1! But T1 went fine, not crazy fast but I do not feel like I lost time to anyone there.
Bike – hhmmm
Lap 1 – Woah! Holy nice first lap. So, I exited the water in 10th, and quickly rode into 7th place. I caught Justin Daerr and new I was riding in a good position. I tried to hang with him as long as I could. It felt hard but manageable. Then we hit the turn around, and I saw how close I was to Ben, and got really excited, I took the lead from Daerr and set pace for a bit. Maybe a little too hard. After the first lap he gapped me and I got passed and slowed way down, I was pretty gassed on lap 2. Also the wind picked up, and that combo was deadly. I was on target for a 4:50, 4:55 bike split until the second half of lap 2 when my legs were shot.
Nutrition was tough, It wasn’t too hot, but I could not do gels. I tried once and almost tossed my cookies. I ate some bars but felt a little under fueled going into the run.
RUN –
I was off the bike in 8th place, feeling good and knowing that I have the potential to run people down. Well it turns out when you are already in 8th the people you are dealing with are all solid athletes and running them down is a bit more challenging. And it also turns out if you bike fairly well, some good runners are behind you and can run you down! At about mile 13 Brad Seng, and Tim Snow flew around me and I could not match them. I had just put on the fuel belt, and was sucking on Redbull, but it did not give me the wings to run with them. I feel like I had a good run, I did not kill it at the beginning, or die too much at the end. It was hard and I had to run my own race, but it was a marathon PR on a tough coarse, and I did finish 9th so it turned out pretty well
