Monday, October 16, 2017
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Penguins 6.6k
Race: Penguins 6.6k run
Date: October 15, 2017
Location: Pittsburgh, Pa
Time: 33:40
Overall Rank: X out of XX
Age Group Rank: 38 out of 201
Results: http:
This went very well. I had an 8:13 min/mile pace, which is pretty fast for me, and it was faster than 81% of men in my age group. I ranked 38 out of 201. I have run this race twice before. In 2014, the most recent year, I finished in 34:34, so today I finished almost a minute faster. I am still in good shape, despite not having done a lot of workouts this year. Mile 1 was easy. By Mile 2, I had passed the 8:30 pace runner. I knew if I was staying ahead of her, it would be a good (enough) race for me. By Mile 3, I wanted the race to be over, but we were running what seemed like forever along the river and I knew the hardest part was still to come. The last mile was a lot of steady uphill, including the tunnel. When i was within sight of the finish line I started sprinting and it took a lot out of me. I pushed myself today and it was a struggle. Good thing I was rewarded with a good finish time!
Date: October 15, 2017
Location: Pittsburgh, Pa
Time: 33:40
Overall Rank: X out of XX
Age Group Rank: 38 out of 201
Results: http:
This went very well. I had an 8:13 min/mile pace, which is pretty fast for me, and it was faster than 81% of men in my age group. I ranked 38 out of 201. I have run this race twice before. In 2014, the most recent year, I finished in 34:34, so today I finished almost a minute faster. I am still in good shape, despite not having done a lot of workouts this year. Mile 1 was easy. By Mile 2, I had passed the 8:30 pace runner. I knew if I was staying ahead of her, it would be a good (enough) race for me. By Mile 3, I wanted the race to be over, but we were running what seemed like forever along the river and I knew the hardest part was still to come. The last mile was a lot of steady uphill, including the tunnel. When i was within sight of the finish line I started sprinting and it took a lot out of me. I pushed myself today and it was a struggle. Good thing I was rewarded with a good finish time!
Sunday, October 1, 2017
AMYMSA Allegheny Valley
Race: masters swim meet
Date: October 1, 2017
Location:
Event #1: 100 IM. My fly was good, but the backstroke--oh boy--do I need to work on that. My legs sank, despite my head being in a good position and my efforts to contract my buttocks during my kicking. Shannan says I need to concentrate on raising my hips, so I will work on that. My finish time was 1:16.49, which was 0.9 seconds slower than Dan, and about 4.7 seconds (6%) slower than my personal best. My quads were burning a little after this race, so I know I put an appropriate amount of effort into it.
Event #4: 50 Fly. Dan and I were in the same heat and we talked about strategy. I said my speed would depend on whether or not I took a breath during this swim. I did, in fact, go without a breath for the first 25 yards and I took about 3 breaths on the return. If I had skipped just one of those breaths I would have beat Dan, since he beat me by 0.01 seconds. My finish time was 32.18, which was 2.1 seconds (7%) slower than my personal best. Danise says Dan was well ahead of me at the turn and I just about caught up with him in the last 25. I wasn't aware of any of that, but I know that my rhythm felt better during the last half of my swim. I concentrated more on my kick during that time, and less on my arms.
Event #9: 200 Free. There was lots of talk before this race about what a difficult race it is. You can't sprint the whole time, but it's not a long distance, either. I went fairly confident that I would pace myself well. I have a long history with this distance--I've done it a lot at meets--and I do a lot of these distances in practice. I was in heat 1, lane 6. This made it hard to judge my pace because the people next to me were much faster. Anyway, I finished in 2:32.52, which was 4.7 seconds (12%) slower than my personal best. Given this result, it appears I went slower than I could have. I am not surprised. I was not extraordinarily tired or winded when I got out of the water. I did feel some lactic acid circulating through my body (a queasy stomach feeling), but it didn't last long and was probably just from sprinting the last 25 yards. I had more fuel in the tank and I should have burned it.
Event #10: 25 Breast. I had a good race until I swallowed water during one of my strokes. It is terribly hard to get air after that because with each successive breath my timing was off and I kept getting more water in my mouth. Oh well. My result was 17.16 seconds, which was 0.18 seconds (1%) slower than my personal best. This record will definitely fall sometime this season.
Event #11: Mixed Medley 200 Relay: I had the freestyle segment. There were no splits so I don't know how I did. I felt really good, though, at least after a lousy dive.
Date: October 1, 2017
Location:
Event #1: 100 IM. My fly was good, but the backstroke--oh boy--do I need to work on that. My legs sank, despite my head being in a good position and my efforts to contract my buttocks during my kicking. Shannan says I need to concentrate on raising my hips, so I will work on that. My finish time was 1:16.49, which was 0.9 seconds slower than Dan, and about 4.7 seconds (6%) slower than my personal best. My quads were burning a little after this race, so I know I put an appropriate amount of effort into it.
Event #4: 50 Fly. Dan and I were in the same heat and we talked about strategy. I said my speed would depend on whether or not I took a breath during this swim. I did, in fact, go without a breath for the first 25 yards and I took about 3 breaths on the return. If I had skipped just one of those breaths I would have beat Dan, since he beat me by 0.01 seconds. My finish time was 32.18, which was 2.1 seconds (7%) slower than my personal best. Danise says Dan was well ahead of me at the turn and I just about caught up with him in the last 25. I wasn't aware of any of that, but I know that my rhythm felt better during the last half of my swim. I concentrated more on my kick during that time, and less on my arms.
Event #9: 200 Free. There was lots of talk before this race about what a difficult race it is. You can't sprint the whole time, but it's not a long distance, either. I went fairly confident that I would pace myself well. I have a long history with this distance--I've done it a lot at meets--and I do a lot of these distances in practice. I was in heat 1, lane 6. This made it hard to judge my pace because the people next to me were much faster. Anyway, I finished in 2:32.52, which was 4.7 seconds (12%) slower than my personal best. Given this result, it appears I went slower than I could have. I am not surprised. I was not extraordinarily tired or winded when I got out of the water. I did feel some lactic acid circulating through my body (a queasy stomach feeling), but it didn't last long and was probably just from sprinting the last 25 yards. I had more fuel in the tank and I should have burned it.
Event #10: 25 Breast. I had a good race until I swallowed water during one of my strokes. It is terribly hard to get air after that because with each successive breath my timing was off and I kept getting more water in my mouth. Oh well. My result was 17.16 seconds, which was 0.18 seconds (1%) slower than my personal best. This record will definitely fall sometime this season.
Event #11: Mixed Medley 200 Relay: I had the freestyle segment. There were no splits so I don't know how I did. I felt really good, though, at least after a lousy dive.
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