First of all, a big congrats to slowtwich guy Peter Phillips. For those of you who do not know Peter is a 40-44 year old stud, who won the Peter Half Ironman in 2004 OVERALL. He is going to Kona and the Canadian Half in Ottawa was a tune up.
I had the fortune of finishing the swim before Peter, and 20K into the bike, he catches me. Being the idiot that I am, I decided that I may as well try to go with the stud. This lasted for another 30K to the 50K mark at which point, I realized that if I was to even finish the course out of the med tent, I better scale back. Peter split 2:23 on the bike that included two transitions, each with a 400m run to the mount point. Incredible. This was more like a 2:15 split. In the final 40K, Peter put 6 min on me and then onto the run, he went 1:20, when the second fastest split of the day was only 1:31 by ST stud Allen Faulds on the very long ~23 K run course. Peter was on fire. The rest of you 40-44 year old better watch out at Kona.
THE GUY WITH COSMETIC BULK WINS
Before the race, I had this young hottie come up to me. Turns out she has a P3 with Zipps. I have a P3 with a front Zipp. She says, "looks like you have the same gear as me, can you help me ?". Well, I knew the P3 might have some utility but not as a conversation starter with women, so regardless I gladly obliged. Turns out that she is having difficulty pumping the tires up on her Zipps, but she does not have the valve stem extender on from the inside, just 5 mm of valve stem on the outside. We finally find a pump that holds a seal, but it is more of MTB floorpump, so with all my 140 lbs of bulk, I can only get 100 lbs into her tires before the force of pumping lifts my entire body weight off the ground. No worries, I say, "I have just the man for you". I return with Allen Faulds and all of his 180 lbs of cosmetic bulk who promptly pumps another 20 psi in.
...and in case you guys were wondering, the guy with cosmetic bulk also had the second quickest run split on the day at 1:31 and finished on the podium.
MY RACE
I had a strong swim of just under 31 min with a long 300 m run to the mat at the entry of T1, reasonbly strong bike (2:30 including the two HUGE transitions...watch said 2:23 of riding time), but my run really sucked at 1:39 even on the long almost 23K run course.
To tell you the truth this is was my "A" race for the year, (not Ironman LP) and I hoped to break 4:30. With a quite stressful week at work, a Jonathan Vaughters like bee sting that had me on medication on Thursday for a hand the size of the michelin man, and the huge transition run and the very long run course (almost 23K), I got somewhat demoralized and basically "mentally" packed it in at around 15K and just coasted in deciding to save it for the Esprit Half in Montreal in 2 weeks. Basically, I was mentally WEAK and gave myself a bunch of excuses to race in the "comfort zone". From that perspective, it was my worst race of the year, in the sense that my biggest asset, that being mental toughness was not there.
Thankfully my swim-bike ("first man to T2" approach), did allow me to squeeze in for 6th overall.
Final results below:
1 4:16:21 PHILLIPS , Peter 198 Colborne ON 1/136 1/30 Men 40-44 29 32:16 1:37 1 2:23:50 37.5 1 1:20:16 3:49
2 4:31:19 GRANT , Ryan 101 Gatineau QC 2/136 1/31 Men 30-34 3 28:21 1:26 2 2:27:50 36.5 6 1:35:09 4:31
3 4:34:30 FAULDS , Allan 73 Frankford ON 3/136 1/25 Men 35-39 18 31:03 1:34 7 2:32:27 35.4 2 1:31:00 4:19
4 4:38:30 BADEAU , Samuel 10 Sorel-tracy QC 4/136 2/31 Men 30-34 5 28:28 1:26 3 2:28:10 36.4 16 1:41:53 4:50
5 4:39:29 THERIAULT , Derek 230 St-jean-sur-ric QC 5/136 2/25 Men 35-39 1 27:03 1:22 12 2:36:29 34.5 8 1:35:58 4:33
6 4:40:53 PAUL , Devashish 192 Kanata ON 6/136 2/30 Men 40-44 15 30:57 1:33 5 2:30:06 36.0 14 1:39:51 4:44
7 4:43:28 MOUYAU , Olivier 176 Ottawa ON 7/136 3/31 Men 30-34 41 33:14 1:40 4 2:28:11 36.4 17 1:42:04 4:51
8 4:50:18 MACKNIE , Chris 159 Ottawa ON 8/136 3/30 Men 40-44 68 36:10 1:49 14 2:37:57 34.2 9 1:36:12 4:34
9 4:50:37 TAY , Louis 228 Ottawa ON 9/136 3/25 Men 35-39 61 35:33 1:47 20 2:40:00 33.8 5 1:35:05 4:31
10 4:51:54 MCCULLOCH , Rob 162 Ottawa ON 10/136 4/30 Men 40-44 9 28:55 1:27 6 2:31:53 35.6 34 1:51:07 5:16
I had the fortune of finishing the swim before Peter, and 20K into the bike, he catches me. Being the idiot that I am, I decided that I may as well try to go with the stud. This lasted for another 30K to the 50K mark at which point, I realized that if I was to even finish the course out of the med tent, I better scale back. Peter split 2:23 on the bike that included two transitions, each with a 400m run to the mount point. Incredible. This was more like a 2:15 split. In the final 40K, Peter put 6 min on me and then onto the run, he went 1:20, when the second fastest split of the day was only 1:31 by ST stud Allen Faulds on the very long ~23 K run course. Peter was on fire. The rest of you 40-44 year old better watch out at Kona.
THE GUY WITH COSMETIC BULK WINS
Before the race, I had this young hottie come up to me. Turns out she has a P3 with Zipps. I have a P3 with a front Zipp. She says, "looks like you have the same gear as me, can you help me ?". Well, I knew the P3 might have some utility but not as a conversation starter with women, so regardless I gladly obliged. Turns out that she is having difficulty pumping the tires up on her Zipps, but she does not have the valve stem extender on from the inside, just 5 mm of valve stem on the outside. We finally find a pump that holds a seal, but it is more of MTB floorpump, so with all my 140 lbs of bulk, I can only get 100 lbs into her tires before the force of pumping lifts my entire body weight off the ground. No worries, I say, "I have just the man for you". I return with Allen Faulds and all of his 180 lbs of cosmetic bulk who promptly pumps another 20 psi in.
...and in case you guys were wondering, the guy with cosmetic bulk also had the second quickest run split on the day at 1:31 and finished on the podium.
MY RACE
I had a strong swim of just under 31 min with a long 300 m run to the mat at the entry of T1, reasonbly strong bike (2:30 including the two HUGE transitions...watch said 2:23 of riding time), but my run really sucked at 1:39 even on the long almost 23K run course.
To tell you the truth this is was my "A" race for the year, (not Ironman LP) and I hoped to break 4:30. With a quite stressful week at work, a Jonathan Vaughters like bee sting that had me on medication on Thursday for a hand the size of the michelin man, and the huge transition run and the very long run course (almost 23K), I got somewhat demoralized and basically "mentally" packed it in at around 15K and just coasted in deciding to save it for the Esprit Half in Montreal in 2 weeks. Basically, I was mentally WEAK and gave myself a bunch of excuses to race in the "comfort zone". From that perspective, it was my worst race of the year, in the sense that my biggest asset, that being mental toughness was not there.
Thankfully my swim-bike ("first man to T2" approach), did allow me to squeeze in for 6th overall.
Final results below:
1 4:16:21 PHILLIPS , Peter 198 Colborne ON 1/136 1/30 Men 40-44 29 32:16 1:37 1 2:23:50 37.5 1 1:20:16 3:49
2 4:31:19 GRANT , Ryan 101 Gatineau QC 2/136 1/31 Men 30-34 3 28:21 1:26 2 2:27:50 36.5 6 1:35:09 4:31
3 4:34:30 FAULDS , Allan 73 Frankford ON 3/136 1/25 Men 35-39 18 31:03 1:34 7 2:32:27 35.4 2 1:31:00 4:19
4 4:38:30 BADEAU , Samuel 10 Sorel-tracy QC 4/136 2/31 Men 30-34 5 28:28 1:26 3 2:28:10 36.4 16 1:41:53 4:50
5 4:39:29 THERIAULT , Derek 230 St-jean-sur-ric QC 5/136 2/25 Men 35-39 1 27:03 1:22 12 2:36:29 34.5 8 1:35:58 4:33
6 4:40:53 PAUL , Devashish 192 Kanata ON 6/136 2/30 Men 40-44 15 30:57 1:33 5 2:30:06 36.0 14 1:39:51 4:44
7 4:43:28 MOUYAU , Olivier 176 Ottawa ON 7/136 3/31 Men 30-34 41 33:14 1:40 4 2:28:11 36.4 17 1:42:04 4:51
8 4:50:18 MACKNIE , Chris 159 Ottawa ON 8/136 3/30 Men 40-44 68 36:10 1:49 14 2:37:57 34.2 9 1:36:12 4:34
9 4:50:37 TAY , Louis 228 Ottawa ON 9/136 3/25 Men 35-39 61 35:33 1:47 20 2:40:00 33.8 5 1:35:05 4:31
10 4:51:54 MCCULLOCH , Rob 162 Ottawa ON 10/136 4/30 Men 40-44 9 28:55 1:27 6 2:31:53 35.6 34 1:51:07 5:16
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