IM Louisville 2009 - Later + Analysis

August 30 – Later

The rest of the night was a bit of a blur. Jill and I went back to the hotel room where I took a shower and put on clean clothes. I also took a picture of my foot – close your eyes if you cant take it ugly.

Then we headed back to the race site to see if we could catch JT finishing. Apparently he was having a rough time. John is very hard headed and was refusing to walk. Finally we saw him finish. It was great to see him make the best of things.

At the finish we saw lots of our triathlete friends including Gary Ditsch who had also done a great race.

After that we went and picked up the bike. In the Transition area we saw Lisbeth Kritensen who has very gracious. She spoke of her 2^nd place finish. Then sent John and Mary on their way back to Georgetown. Jill and I went and ate Nachos and Quesadillas at the sports bar. Clearly I had come a long way with my nutrition if I felt good enough to do that.

Analysis

All in all the race went well. I was able to get the most out of my fitness by executing my race plan well. With the exception of transitions where I left 5 minutes on the table, there was no more than perhaps 5 minutes left on the course. Even better, problems that have plagued me in the past (slow swim, nausea) did not rear their ugly head. I was able to hit my nutrition plan exactly (1570 bike/2070 run)

There were numerous errors/risks

1. Changes to bike in final week (in direct violation of Jordan request)
2. Brand new once run in pair of Asics
3. Not enough practice with compression socks
4. Sunburn on back from different shape of Desoto tri top (the only thing that still hurts after 5 days)
5. Zip tie on number holder (in direct violation of Jill observation)
6. Ziplock bags for clothes inside of Walmart bag inside of transition bag
7. 
   
   Leaving EFS gel in bike bag
   
8. Rolling special needs on bike (in direct violation of Jordans request)
9. No salt tablets consumed on run
   
   

	Time	Calories	Sodium
Pre-race		1625	930 mg
Swim	01:18:04--	0	0
T1	5:45--	0	0
Bike	5:17:36--	1570	4370mg
T2	8:15--	0	0
Run	3:45:12--	2070	4945mg
Total	10:35:55--	5265	10245 mg

Before the race Jordan thought:

I think your very best race - like 100 out of 100 - is 1:15 // 5:30 //
3:45 = 10:30. That is if absolutely everything went perfectly, which
it rarely does.

I think your baseline race is 1:20 // 5:50 // 3:50 = 11:00. This is
what I hope you will do, and hopefully squeak under 11:00.

I think a still good race is 1:30 // 6:00 // 4:00 = 11:30, and I think
even if some things go awry, you can still do this time

Before the race I was thinking:

1. <12 hours satisfied
   
   
2. <11 hours ecstatic
   
   
3. Near 10:30 dancing in the streets

I thought that 10:30ish would get me a Kona slot... which it didn't 10:13 was the last slot on this very fast year.

Here is the piece of paper that I had given Jill to track my progress on the bike/run. You can see in the upper left where show wrote “9:04 am start of bike”