Tonight was the first opportunity for Edel & myself to race together as until now, one or the other of us was 'shorelined' with the kids. This evening they were at home with their cousins and auntie.
I hate these sort of starts as there is so many people crossing and meandering along in front of you that it is really difficult to get in a rhythm. I generally find my longer distance swim times are much more efficient than my sprint distance. I reckon this is because I spend so much time settling down at the start of the race, trying to find my rhythm.
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A great shot of a mass start. |
Knowing myself that I was much slower than normal at the start of this race, I sought my rhythm and settled down somewhat, still not enough and it was only in the return leg of the swim that I genuinely felt comfortable and easy. I'm hoping that the HRM info might back me up on this notion.
Back to land and again I struggled with getting the wetsuit off my feet. No matter how must I do or don't Bodyglide this seems to remain a sticking problem. Into the shoes, iNOV-8 Road X 255, again not as easy as it should be, but then that's what practice races are for.
My run, I was happy with. With no stride pod I had to go on instinct for pacing and found that I was really comfortable pushing myself along nicely.
Knowing Edel was way ahead in the swim, I expected to see her ahead of me on the run. I didn't expect to see her with a km or so stuck into me on the run! When we passed I clocked it and found I had 2 minutes to the turn about, putting her 4 mins or so up at that point! With the return run being downhill for a lot of the route, I expected to pull back time but would not catch her within her 2k to the finish.
I finished my run quite strong and would have liked the pacing data for feedback, but hey, we don't always get what we like.
Having dropped 5:15 over the swim I pulled back just over 3 minutes on the run. All told I was happier with my run, disappointed with my swim, but hoping next weeks handicap would be in my favour :)
Edel Conroy F 0:13:30 0:38:02
Sean Conroy M 0:18:45 0:39:58
Aquathon data
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