Ai_1 wrote:
JYoung wrote:
I've never done any IM. Did one of these 'extreme triathlons' last summer but those numbers all over the place. 2.7 cold water swim 1:20
Bike 115 miles with 4500 vert, 6:20 (bought used road bike 2 weeks prior)....
Is that 4500ft?
If so, that's a pretty average bike leg. Less elevation than I remember from Austria and that's not considered a particularly tough bike leg. Considering your training power figures 6:20 seems relatively slow, but then FTP estimates based on shorter training sessions doesn't tell you everything about your ability to produce power and maintain a good position over long periods. It doesn't tell you anything about your ability to ride after the swim, or how much you were holding back for the run. Nor, does it indicate what the weather or your aerodynamics and tyre choice were like for that race.
Cool good to know, I really had no idea about pacing, did it without HR monitor or power meter. Did it on a road bike I bought 2 weeks prior having never been a road bike before that. (1000's of hours on a DH bike though lol)
I do know that I punched too hard on climbs and took too many breaks (6). I would pass a group of people, then they would pass me while I was stopped and was eating and then I would pass them again, several times over. Real up and down effort. Then 3 miles into run portion while still on flat terrain, the wheels fell completely off. Sad bonk time for many hours thereafter.
I'm hoping this year to take an hour off the bike time with better tactics and fitness and then I guess hang on for dear life on the run again...? But that is generally seen as bad tactic. Maybe take 30 min off bike and save it for the run...?
Holy smokes, so many variables!
I was thinking sometime in the next week to do a hard TT effort on a half IM stretch of highway. Gotta get some base numbers to work off of.
Edit: I just looked back at my training log and in the 10 weeks prior to race I logged 350 miles. Lots of 25 mile days. Longest in that period was 48. Longest ever before that was about 1998 when I did 52.
Dang I need to get some volume up.