Race week!!
Well after 5 months of training without a race, I get to compete this weekend. My race is costing me $53 so we tightwad triathletes don’t do many.
I am doing the Icebreaker in American Fork. See Milliseconds for complete race history. http://www.milliseconds.com/ I competed last in this race in 2006. I took 11 overall out of 250 and first in my age group.
I was in pretty good shape then—similar to what I am now. I think there are 400 entered and I am in a higher age group. (I would not have taken first in the 40-44 age group).
But I have no control over who shows up. My time was 1:01.38. That time would have got 15 in 2007. My times were: 6:16 on swim, 32.24 (21.3 mph) on bike and 20:24 on the 5K run. My transitions times were 1:43 for T1 and 49 for T2.
I should break the swim time by 45 seconds—all being well. Possibly even faster. I have been doing 5:35 after swimming a half mile.
I should break the bike by maybe one half minute. It is a hilly technical course.
I hope to break the run by 15 seconds. For a savings of 1.5 minutes. It looks to be cold weather, so my T1 time might be a little slower, but I think I bundled up last time. Gold: Faster than 1:00.0 Silver: 1:00-1:01.30 Bronze: 1:01.30. This is assuming the T times stay the same, and the weather is not so cold that it slows everything down.
If they do a reverse tri, then my time will be a minute faster on the run, same on bike and 30 sec. faster on swim. | 