OTT #21: Swim, Bike, Run

Saturday, July 8

Today was a run-through of the entire Tinman course. We met at Queen's beach, both our group and the other Boca tinman group together. So we did the entire swim, bike, and run. We couldn't do proper transitions as there was no-one to watch our stuff.

Here are my times:
Swim 18m
Bike 1h 40m (ugh)
Run 1h (didn't do the whole thing)

I wasn't too happy with how today went.

Swim: I went out too fast. I'm not a fast swimmer and I shouldn't act like it. Going out fast only leaves my winded and floundering, so for the race, I should just cruise along.

Bike: Today was very windy. Between the wind and all the stoplights I got caught at, I wouldn't have expected a good time, but I still didn't expect as slow a time as I got. I wasn't going all out as they told us to do this moderately.

Run: This just sucked. I did the run as they instructed, leaving out the 18th ave-Elepiao section. It took about an hour, but that section probably cut off about a mile. I did a lot of walking up the hills. On flats and downhills I did fine.

In trying to find an explanation for my poor performance, it could be a poor diet the day before or lack of sleep. For some reason, I couldn't sleep at all last night. Perhaps it was the caffeine in the soda I had (although that was around 6pm). As for the diet, I had a high-protein, low-carb dinner the night before and in general, just didn't pay attention to what I ate. I'll have to do better for the days leading up to the race.