After entering the tri world a year and a half ago I've fallen in love with the sport and have made some pretty solid gains since starting. I did my first Ironman this year at Boulder and didn't have my best day. Still had a great time, I just know I didn't nail it!
So next season I was thinking about taking two shots at the Ironman distance. I'm kind of limited to my choices since I'm a teacher and need to keep my major racing in the summer and in North America. I would love to do Ironman Texas and then Boulder again but Texas falls on our last week of school and I can't get out of that. The best looking scenario is Coeur d'Alene on June 28th and Boulder on August 2nd. I realize that doing two races 5 weeks apart won't change my fitness level much but it does give me two chances to pull off a pretty good time. My buddy in my age group was roughly 3-4 minutes faster than me at the Boulder 70.3 this last summer and then he KQ'ed at Ironman Boulder so I know that I can get near that level and possibly KQ one day myself. That's not my objective for next season but if it happens I'll take it! I just want to race a solid Ironman distance.
I raced another 70.3 five weeks after Ironman Boulder where I put together a solid few weeks of training and then a great race so I'm thinking it's possible to pull it off and perform well in both. What do you guys think?
So next season I was thinking about taking two shots at the Ironman distance. I'm kind of limited to my choices since I'm a teacher and need to keep my major racing in the summer and in North America. I would love to do Ironman Texas and then Boulder again but Texas falls on our last week of school and I can't get out of that. The best looking scenario is Coeur d'Alene on June 28th and Boulder on August 2nd. I realize that doing two races 5 weeks apart won't change my fitness level much but it does give me two chances to pull off a pretty good time. My buddy in my age group was roughly 3-4 minutes faster than me at the Boulder 70.3 this last summer and then he KQ'ed at Ironman Boulder so I know that I can get near that level and possibly KQ one day myself. That's not my objective for next season but if it happens I'll take it! I just want to race a solid Ironman distance.
I raced another 70.3 five weeks after Ironman Boulder where I put together a solid few weeks of training and then a great race so I'm thinking it's possible to pull it off and perform well in both. What do you guys think?
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SwiftRunner: Sep 17, 14 5:42