It was a flounder in the water tonight. It was a bad swim, I never got into a rhythm or good pace. Now to be fair, I did forget to take off my wedding ring before the swim, and it was too late to go put in in my bag when I remembered, so I did end up swimming with my left hand in a fist the whole time so that I didn't lose the ring. So I should cut myself some slack, as I essentially was doing a fist drill on one side for the entire swim. Pretty much only pulling with my right.
I also ate too close to the race, and ended up with plenty of GI issues along the way. There was even a point that I thought of stopping the race, and hanging off of one of the life guard kayaks. However I pushed through, finished the swim and then proceeded to get lost in transition. More people filled in around my spot after I left for the start and I couldn't find my bag.
But after all that, I got out of my suit, rinsed off my feet and got my shoes and hat on. I headed out for the run. The run was OK. I got into a rhythm about 1/4 of the way into the race, and then started to pick up the pace. I got passed a lot by the usual jackrabbits. I'm still amazed they can run that fast. But as I got more comfortable I started re passing some of the people that had past me a little while before. My run ended up being pretty good, I feel like I finished strong, though I will never know my split time because I didn't have a timing chip for this race.
All in all I felt good about the race, though it clearly wasn't my best. I was about 6 minutes slower this time than my last race. I am certain that at least 4 of those minutes were lost in the swim. Even though I swam a good course and didn't have to adjust much for the buoys, I was really slow.
I get one more week of non structured training before I launch into my 5 week high intensity training for Mission Bay. I will probably get one more club race in after Mission Bay, but that will be it until next season. I've also decided that I will plan around doing at least two Olympic distance races next year, and then a half IronMan the following year. So for the time being I have answered the question I asked in my last post.
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