Bryancd wrote:
Amazing how many sub 5 rides this year!
OK, from the back of the field, I can provide some other data: 70 min swim, 5:21 bike, 4:11 run (torn hamstring 6 weeks ago, so I had to really take the run easy, it really was not over biking...bike felt easy). 5:30 combined transitions, so missed the 45-49 combined transition championship by a few seconds (was second in that category...bummer!!!)
5'6", 143 lbs (not sure how I gained almost 7 lbs since IM Tremblant....must be all the biz travel and restaurant food).
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/390070351 AP = 191
NP = 201
Looks like my moving time was 23 seconds faster than total time, which seems to be the stop to get my 500 cals of infinit at special needs. The IF and TSS on Garmin connect are off as I did not update my FTP to reflect it having gone up since earlier in the season, but one could say I still biked high, but with a hamstring tear, I was not going to be moving very fast on the run anyway.
My position is pretty upright due to a fairly bad neck injury from a crash that prevents me from going any lower (I end up with headaches). My plan was to overbike a bit heading out to Hawi because I checked the forecast and saw a big South West wind in the forecast later in the morning, so I figured that the quicker I got to Hawi, the less riding I would do in the stiffer wind coming back. I was averaging 197W at Hawi and soft pedaled back down to Kawaihai and loaded up on nutrition, by which point it was down to 191W. From Kawaihai back to Kona, I basically rode at that average.
With my neck issues, this is the only way I can reduce my frontal....but time for a stubbly helmet. Almost drop $250 for a Specialized Evade, but I got cheap at the last moment and went with my old Chrono. I figure that $250 was worth another Half IM entry fee I could give to WTC rather than giving money to Kona bike works...Oh well!
