Well I finished the race, and I believe my time was 3:20 (beating the goal I set for 3:30). I'm feeling too lazy to post more, so I'll just put this for now, then update when I get the official time (hopefully with nice splits).
Updates: well, the official times came out, and I was off by 8 minutes. Real time was 3:28:25,
with 39:05 for the swim (I thought this was 30, but it felt longer anyway), 1:29:29 for the bike,
and 1:14:27 for the run. Pretty decent transitions too I think, 4:18 and then 1:07.
The swim was tough... right away my arms felt like stone, not sure why. I had to do a backstroke quite a bit, and used my legs more than I wanted to. Getting out of the water to the transition was not too bad though, I was able to run a bit right off instead of feeling weird/almost falling down.
The bike was alright... I had planned on attacking the hills from 7-10.5 miles, but it looks like I had about the same speed on them as I did in my training ride. I think I picked up some time before that just from adrenaline... ended up 4 minutes faster than my training ride (and beating 1:30, which was my goal there)... so I'm happy with that.
Transition to running went pretty well too. I was able to run right off the bat, rather than walking some like I was worried I might need. I started off running 4 minutes, then walking 1. I think I ran the first 2 miles this way pretty fast. Then the hill starts, so I changed to walking 1 and then running 1. Made my way through that and then on the way back down I got back up to 3 running minutes I think. After getting to the flat I seemed to start losing steam, and I could only run for a minute or 1.5 before walking. I just kept on doing this, limiting my walking to a minute at a time and then running what I could. At one point I thought I was close enough to run all the way to the finish, so I kicked it up.... but I went too fast and had to walk again to regroup to run through (always try to run through the finish... usually cheering and stuff helps that).
Overall I'm very happy with the result and it was a fun race (brutal hills aside... but thats part of the challenge).
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