The Jellyfish wounds have healed probably 80%, still smarting every now and then whenever I make a large arm movement which will tear the wound open again.
Borrowed a wetsuit from my friend, and tried fitting into it on Sunday after my class ended. Boy, it was an eye-opening experience. Insanely difficult to even put my leg through the pants, and trying to pull it all the way up was just energy sapping. The age-old plastic bag trick really helps though.
Trying to swim in the wet suit felt strange as well, as it changes my balance quite a fair bit, and the part of the suit being pretty constricting as well worries me a little. Bad experience from the last wetsuit swim race that I did not finish. Hopefully this time I'll fare better
The longest bike training that I had clocked this season is probably 50km - roughly half the distance of what is needed in the 703 bike leg
Been desperately trying to clock up a bit of mileage for my run over the last 2 weeks, but I'm keenly aware that my body has not been properly tuned up from my runs.
Well, I will just have to survive this race, and make it back before the cut off time.
Being the last wave to start doesn't really help...
Course cut off time is 7.5 hours.
Let's take a look at my own race time estimates:
Dangerously close to the cut off time, but there is nothing much that I can do now except to accept the fact that I had screwed up the race prep with the bad injury and I'll just have to go out and enjoy the race instead of worrying about how slow I'll go.
My just survive race strategy:
Borrowed a wetsuit from my friend, and tried fitting into it on Sunday after my class ended. Boy, it was an eye-opening experience. Insanely difficult to even put my leg through the pants, and trying to pull it all the way up was just energy sapping. The age-old plastic bag trick really helps though.
Trying to swim in the wet suit felt strange as well, as it changes my balance quite a fair bit, and the part of the suit being pretty constricting as well worries me a little. Bad experience from the last wetsuit swim race that I did not finish. Hopefully this time I'll fare better
The longest bike training that I had clocked this season is probably 50km - roughly half the distance of what is needed in the 703 bike leg
Been desperately trying to clock up a bit of mileage for my run over the last 2 weeks, but I'm keenly aware that my body has not been properly tuned up from my runs.
Well, I will just have to survive this race, and make it back before the cut off time.
Being the last wave to start doesn't really help...
Course cut off time is 7.5 hours.
Let's take a look at my own race time estimates:
- SWIM: Within 45 mins
- T1: 8 mins - taking off the wetsuit will take a bit of time
- BIKE: 3h 30min - and this is being optimistic
- T2: 5 mins - shouldn't have issues here, except that I may take the usual toilet break
- RUN: 3h - just survive. Even if I walk the entire course it shouldn't take me longer than what happened at Cebu or Taiwan to finish the 21km.
Dangerously close to the cut off time, but there is nothing much that I can do now except to accept the fact that I had screwed up the race prep with the bad injury and I'll just have to go out and enjoy the race instead of worrying about how slow I'll go.
My just survive race strategy:
- SWIM: Keep it slow and steady. Prepared the sea sickness pills and lots of body glide to minimize chaffing. Don't get short of breath or sea sick, as it will be impossible to recover with the super constricting wetsuit. Let my technique shine and forget about keeping pace with the sprinters
- BIKE: Maintain steady state effort and stay in aero position as far as possible. Keep spinning at the appropriate RPM with steady state effort. Do not attempt to surge/ keep pace/ overtake others. Maintain mid to low effort and save the legs for the run.
- RUN: No brick training done means my legs will be bricked after T2. Just maintain short stride lengths with high cadence at recovery pace to allow the legs to recover and flush out the lactic acid build up, so that I can quickly return to the normal steady state run form.
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