That’s a solid last 12 months of training for you Poet. From my own experience of coming back after a long lay-off (10 years!) I can tell you that unless you make some seismic shifts, you’re already most of the way up the diminishing returns curve. That first year if you’re dedicated gives big improvements. I went from a bit of casual running to 10:09 in Roth in 13 months; as you know I didn’t progress much after that; 9 mins over Ironman and about the same over HIM too.
I wouldn’t leave it too long if you want to ‘go large’ as you’re in the sweetspot age wise at the moment.
Yes, it’s about 480 hours for the rolling year, which is where I was for the three times I did Outlaw.
Yeah, I know, I know…problem is, it’s all about the bike and I just don’t enjoy cycling that much
Swimming, I now enjoy way way more than I did. I think the local lake being of excellent quality and having a lot of people attend helps with that, as does a squad swim every now and again.
Running is incredible, I love it. But, to get that 3:45 marathon down to 3:25, I’m going to need to cycle more
Target is probably Barca in a couple of years time, with a warm up at Tenby (as listening to Foggy talk about Bolton has put me right off!)
The power meter makes the bike feel like cheating, so that’s a massive help.
Though, riding to power for the past three weeks, solo, has been boringAF
My slowest time on the hillier bike course is 2:33, best is 2:29 iirc. My slowest swim was 31 last year, but normally I’m 28/29 if I knuckle-down (a tad short hence sub 30). Your run goal seems to have shifted slightly from you pace prediction of 4:06! The run is ~20.6km, so that should put you more like 1:25 at that pace.
A time has gone out the window for me. I’m going to try another gentle run tonight as my calf seems to have settled down but my main goal for Sunday is to not completely ruin my chances of finishing IMCH.
Tonight will decide whether I pace it at IM intensity of just go hell for leather as an aqua/bike and hit the bar early.
"One is from the North, the other the South
One a tech savvy millennial, the other a luddite closer to 50
He tracks and analyses everything, whereas he just goes with what he knows
he drives a new car with a very long warranty, the other guy just has something that resembles a car
One has read about the Cotswolds, the other has it printed on the back of his hand
10 years and nearly 30,000 posts and it comes down to this, two men, one course, one very cheap looking trophy.
Yes, they then slagged off Barca and the drafting (but c’mon, not drafating, in a pace line, that’s how to do a nice easy 5:10 bike and run 3:25 off the bike)
I had one in Lapis Blue; fab in direct sunlight. But that was before I got married and we had kids. Now everything goes on a 200 year old house; it’s endless.
The way you ran recently, I wouldn’t have particularly high expectations that I can run you down. Especially as I’m coming in with pretty poor bike fitness, which is likely going to hamper my run even more
What is it? I ‘only’ had a Boxster S, it looked great with the 911 5-spokes on it. No traction, so scared myself a couple of times in the wet over in Germany. Managed a GPS 164mph on the Autobahn before I had to lift-off.
This one is a Cayman S.
Nice thing…
I had a 911 ( 964 ) sold it cheap as I was skint…
Worth five times what I sold it for now…!
Thems the breaks I guess
