Question:which will enable me to set a somewhat faster pace, rather than always trying
to run the same distance that I'll have to run in the event?
Answer:
You will have no trouble doing the triathlon.. I think you said in your note
you ran 6k in 50 minutes, thats about 3.5 miles. Is that correct? It so you
maybe need to work on your running, but you still will have no problem with the
tri.. It just occured to me reading your note and seeing the date and distances,
is that the tri in Pauling, N.Y.? I am doing that one..
I estimated the distance
that I ran by looking at a map and measuring,
so it's possible it was 7km (= 4.35 miles)
rather than 6 km (=3.73 miles).
Yes, it took me 50 minutes, which
I realize is not very good. I don't know
if it's possible to improve in the time
left to train, but I'll try.
Funny that you're also doing an event
on June 2, there must be a lot of events
that day, because my sister is training
for the Freihofer 5km run which
is also June 2. (If I lived in Albany,
I'd do that one just for the refreshments
afterwards!)
Actually my mini-triathlon is in Herzliyah, Israel.
It's held to commemorate an Israeli triathlete who was
killed by a hit-and-run driver while she was
on a training bike ride. I think the reason for
the short distances (750 meter swim/20km bike/
5 km run) is to get as many entrants as possible.
There is also a shorter option, I think something
like 500 meter swim/12 km bike/3km run,
which a friend of mine is doing, but I decided
that I should be capable of the longer option.
Sounds like the one I'm getting ready for (Blue Springs in Marianna, FL
- .25m/10m/5k), only I'll have an excuse for going slow. I'll be running
with my 14YO, who no matter how bad he thinks he is (he just did his
first and last Ironkids and is a litte cocky right now LOL), is still
slower than his old man. :)
I've heard of some unbalanced races, but that's incredible. How do you
even measure someone swimming a quarter of a meter? And a 10-meter bike leg? I
wouldn't bother putting on cycling shoes. In fact, to save time I'd do the
quarter-meter swim and the 10-meter bike with my running shoes on! :-)
