Race Numbers
Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 8:28PM Just a quick tally of the times for the Ironbaby. I keep two versions of the time. One is the official time and includes all the carnage and time delays. The other is without those issues and better reflects what I'm capable of - a true measure of my own fitness. It's good to know the second one so I can target it in a normal race.
2.4 mile swim - 1 hour. 1:32 / 100 meter pace.
Transition from pool to bike - 25 minutes. (Had to drive to house). In a normal Ironman, this would be 10 minutes or less.
112 mile bike - 6:30, including a bike wreck and changing a flat. Time actually moving was 6:12, an 18 mph avg.
Transition from bike to run - 10 minutes.
26.2 mile run - 4:55, an 11:16 min/mile pace.
So, the official time goes down as 13:15. A massive PR over my last Ironbaby of 15 hours. And if I was to compare my fitness now to Ironman Wisconsin in 2007, I went 12:42 compared to 12:59 back then. Nice improvement! 12:42 = 13:15 minus an extra 15 minutes of transition time and 18 minutes of bike wreckage and flat repairing out on the road.
I don't want to get into a whole bunch of "what if's" and "well.....". You get what you get on race day and you really can't compare two races or even the same race on different days. Weather and lots of other conditions makes every race a singularity. Ironman Wisconsin was hillier, but this Ironbaby was like biking in a hurricane. And the previous Ironbaby felt like I was doing a race in Antarctica.
What I do know is I finished this race feeling absolutely amazing, unlike ever before. It's a real tribute to how some key changes in my diet and training has made an incredible difference.
I'll write up a race report soon with the real dirt!
