So i have posted a few other items recently about my IMFL journey. Long story short - Wife diagnosed with breast cancer, insists I still do florida, training has taken a real back seat. My original idea of breaking long bikes into chunks has failed miserably and with 46 days to go im in DR/BC mode. I HAVE to do this and I HAVE to finish or else she is going to feel really bad and guilty about taking one more thing away from her family. That's why im doing it so quitting or DNF'ing is not an option to me. I need to do this for her, i know it probably sounds weird but until you have a spouse fighting cancer you probably wont understand and i hope and pray none of you ever understand.
Anyway to my real question. I did Muncie in July with approximately 3 weeks of training and pulled a 7:15(ish) time. If not for some enduralytes that I think went bad I would have been in good shape to have been in the low 6's. I was on track for a sub 3 hour bike and felt good until everything went south and i started to feel really sick. So i have a reasonable amount of base fitness. I believe I can finish Florida but its going to take a long time and hurt like hell and im already prepared to hunker down for a day of pain and misery. Right now my plan is to try to go pretty easy on the bike like 14-15mph range for energy conservation in hopes that I can run at least half of the marathon and maybe finish under 16 hours.
So all that being said, starting to wonder if it makes more sense to take the road bike instead of the Tri bike. I have a P2 with a disc and H3 upfront. Part of it is appearance. I personally feel really stupid going 15mph on that setup while getting passed by people on road bikes or worse mountain bikes. So the question is given my sitch would i benefit more from being in a more comfortable road position for 7.5 hours or would the benefit of the Tri bike and associated aero gear still provide enough of a benefit in aerodynamic savings to leave me fresher for the run at the same projected speed? My gut says the road bike is the way to go but the voice in the back of my head says no matter what the Tri bike is always faster at the same effort. So im really torn. Any help or thoughts are appreciated.
If your still reading, this is how screwed i am with 46 days to go
Longest bike since Muncie - 35 miles in 2 hours
Longest run since Muncie - 9.5 in 1:40
Longest swim ~ 45 min in the pool ~ 1.2 miles
This is not where I thought I was going to be when i signed up. :-(
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God's in his heaven, alls right with the world -Nerv
Anyway to my real question. I did Muncie in July with approximately 3 weeks of training and pulled a 7:15(ish) time. If not for some enduralytes that I think went bad I would have been in good shape to have been in the low 6's. I was on track for a sub 3 hour bike and felt good until everything went south and i started to feel really sick. So i have a reasonable amount of base fitness. I believe I can finish Florida but its going to take a long time and hurt like hell and im already prepared to hunker down for a day of pain and misery. Right now my plan is to try to go pretty easy on the bike like 14-15mph range for energy conservation in hopes that I can run at least half of the marathon and maybe finish under 16 hours.
So all that being said, starting to wonder if it makes more sense to take the road bike instead of the Tri bike. I have a P2 with a disc and H3 upfront. Part of it is appearance. I personally feel really stupid going 15mph on that setup while getting passed by people on road bikes or worse mountain bikes. So the question is given my sitch would i benefit more from being in a more comfortable road position for 7.5 hours or would the benefit of the Tri bike and associated aero gear still provide enough of a benefit in aerodynamic savings to leave me fresher for the run at the same projected speed? My gut says the road bike is the way to go but the voice in the back of my head says no matter what the Tri bike is always faster at the same effort. So im really torn. Any help or thoughts are appreciated.
If your still reading, this is how screwed i am with 46 days to go
Longest bike since Muncie - 35 miles in 2 hours
Longest run since Muncie - 9.5 in 1:40
Longest swim ~ 45 min in the pool ~ 1.2 miles
This is not where I thought I was going to be when i signed up. :-(
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God's in his heaven, alls right with the world -Nerv