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Good news is, I got 8 1\/2 hours sleep Friday night.\u00a0 I needed it, because the night before the race, after dutifully leaving our town’s annual music festival to load up on pasta and going to bed by 9 (listening, alas, to fabulous music that travelled from the festival to my bedroom a mile away), I awoke at 12:19 a.m., saying goodnight to my 17-year old (who just got home, of course) and never got back to sleep.\u00a0 Armed with 3 hours sleep, I decided my body knew what to do, but I would have to be careful with depending on a fuzzy brain.<\/p>\n

Got to transition as it opened at 5 a.m.\u00a0 Had racked my bike the day before, took off baggies over the handle bars, etc., and pondered with the pliers I had brought to deal with that gunk on the bottom of the frame almost rubbing against the front derailleur.\u00a0 Turns out, it’s not gunk, it’s a metal plate attached to, but twisted away from, the frame.\u00a0 Went to bike repair tent, where the guy slowly changed a couple of tires (doesn’t he know transition closes soon?), started removing the cranks, and banged at the crank shaft with a wooden handle (unable to find a rubber mallet) before I rescued my Beastie from potential dents.\u00a0 (Hastings Velo bike shop, here I come!)<\/p>\n

So.\u00a0 Not the relaxed commencement I had planned.\u00a0 Still, remained remarkably unruffled.\u00a0 (And the bike performed problem free).<\/p>\n

Chose to swim in the longsleeve wetsuit \u2018cuz it’s faster even if my transition is slower (practicing its removal the night before, a terrible way to prepare for bed, but nice to discuss the problem with my 13-year old).\u00a0\u00a0 Got in a very short warmup in the water, but enough to feel relieved.\u00a0 Bravely went to the middle\/front of the corral, next to my friendly nemesis Scott Schiffer (age group competitor), and ran into the water.<\/p>\n

Started with minimal panic — a new pattern for me. Ran for a buoy or two, as I knew from watching the first wave of Tough Teen racers that the water was too shallow to swim.\u00a0 The running ramped up my heart rate, but swam until I got a groove.\u00a0 Drafted a little off the guys ahead of me, but either they were too slow and I touched their feet (sorry!) or they were the big fish that got away.\u00a0 Alternating sides every 3rd breath went out the window – I’m breathing every stroke, and sighting a lot to see the Big Yellow Buoy ahead of me.\u00a0 Rounded the buoy with only minimal exhaustion, zoomed to shore (thankful for the report, at least, that we had a helpful current), finished in 24:25.\u00a0 (Full disclosure:\u00a0 someone told me that his Garmin indicated it was a short swim — only 0.9 miles, not 1.2.\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s an advantage we all shared.)<\/p>\n

Ran pretty well to my bike; had to sit down to get off the damn wetsuit, but decent transition (2:43), and most of the other bikes in my bike rack (age grouped) were still there – a good sign.<\/p>\n

For the bike: Goal was to stay in heart rate Zone 2, no higher, or Coach Debi said I’d lose substantial time on the run.\u00a0 Ate half a Powerbar (chew, chew, pant, chew), part of the Coach’s rigorous nutrition plan, as promised.\u00a0 But a sleep-deprived mental screw up: I had left the non-caffeine gel with my running gear, or dropped it, so I would have to stretch them out over the ride.\u00a0 (I now calculate that between the 4 gels on the bike, 5-6 shot blocks and a gel or two on the run, I took in 240 mg of caffeine. That’s almost 5 double espressos. Yes, Debi, gels have 35 mg, and shot blocks have 50 mg for every 3 blocks.\u00a0\u00a0 And I normally drink decaf….)\u00a0\u00a0 No cadence detector on the Garmin (hadn’t checked after the bike repair guy molested my Beastie), and the heart rate wasn’t working (as I had experimented before lending a spare strap to Jenn).\u00a0 No worries, I had another HRM on my watch (like my Dad with his identical twin, I seem to have a spare of everything), so I’m checking my wrist every few moments for 3 hours. And I have an idea of what 90+ rpm feels like by this time.<\/p>\n

Around 20 minutes into the ride realized that the Garmin hadn’t been re-set from my last workout, two days ago, and I don’t remember how far I rode. (That sleep deprivation…)\u00a0 Felt OK, passing some people, getting passed by younger guys, staying within Z2, keeping my RPMs high.\u00a0 But getting tired.\u00a0 So when I called out at the southern turnaround “what mile is this?!” and one guy said, “I dunno, 25% of the course, maybe 13 miles” (he was wrong, it was really 18 to 20 – dammit, volunteers should KNOW where they are!), I freaked out. Well, calmly. But I hadn’t realized how FAR 56 miles was going to be.\u00a0 I mean, when I’m at the end of the 25 miles for an Olympic, fine, that was fun, but how was I going to survive another 36+ miles of this?<\/p>\n

Those long rolling hills started feeling longer and longer. At the cement section of the highway (closed to traffic), scored for winter traction and expansion, I really felt the side wind against my “aero” wheels.\u00a0\u00a0 Won a match of leap frog with a 59-year old, but a Pyrrhic victory…\u00a0 I’d like to say I was focussing on the low heart rate, but I don’t think I could have spun my legs any faster.\u00a0 I know that’s true, because when Ron the Mouth (who rides with the Hastings gang on Sundays – and is in my age group) passed me yelling “I made up the lost time!” I sure tried to pass him.\u00a0 (Although I remembered that he was not going to run, so why should I care?)\u00a0 What did spur me on was passing some guy, who yelled “Where the f— did you come from, Mark?”\u00a0 to which I responded “Where the f— do you think you’re going, Scott?”\u00a0 So I got back on the game.\u00a0 Almost crashed at the very end of the course — narrow, jogging lane pathway into the park, sharp turns suddenly shaded, I actually had to pop out of my cleats after I avoided running into a wall, but managed to avoid twisting my ankle as I had done on a training ride.\u00a0 Bottom line:\u00a0 biked in 3:02. I had been shooting for 3:00. Fine with me.<\/p>\n

T2 was smooth, and changed into my New Racing Flats.\u00a0 Coach Debi said they had sliced off time on cousin Rob Falk’s races, so I had practiced.\u00a0 Saw the wonderful Rachel on the way out from transition (“Hey, Baby!”) and off we go onto the run.<\/p>\n

Here, the goal was to stay in a heart rate zone 10 clicks above my average on the bike for 4 miles, then to pass as many people as i could.\u00a0 The concrete bridge out of Croton Point Park seemed pretty damn long, and really, every mile marker seemed farther away than the one before. The course took us through Cortlandt Manor, with beautiful forested roads (occasionally interrupted by large gravel sections, which were hard with the flats – felt every darn stone!).\u00a0 Saw racer nos. 1 and a few minutes later no. 2 come zooming past me in the other direction.\u00a0 OMG, the winner finished in 4:01.\u00a0 After mentally pausing to admire such speed (and youth!), I dug into soft wooded paths and a switch-back up up up hill section going to the Croton Dam (damn!); it was just like ascending to the Parc Royal in Montreal, and I survived that casual jog; this was just another one, right?<\/p>\n

And after reaching beautiful, waterfalling reservoir and starting down down down, I hit the moment that I learned something about myself, as Drew Ahkao predicted in our epic pep talk:\u00a0 I started thinking,”ooh, maybe I’ll make the podium, I don’t see anyone in my age group” or “Oh, it will be so great to see Rachel at the finish line”\u00a0 or “I bet they have Capt. Lawrence beer after the race”.\u00a0 And then I thought, “Shmuck!\u00a0 That’s the end!\u00a0 You’re not there, you’re here!\u00a0 So:\u00a0 Check out the crack in the road. That’s a long crack.\u00a0 Must be tough winters here…\u00a0 Check out that manhole cover.\u00a0 There’s a whole sewer system down there. Miraculous…”\u00a0 And I stayed PRESENT.\u00a0 And I ran in the present.\u00a0 And I ran a little faster “right now.”<\/p>\n

I kept worrying that Scott would catch up to me (he had been right behind me at the end of bike) but I work better at chasing than being chased.\u00a0 So I cranked it up and started counting the folks I passed, and the folks that passed me.\u00a0 By the end of the race, I think I was net 11 (including 3 guys who passed me but were doing a relay), after losing to one tough woman who inspired me to speed up but just wouldn’t quit.\u00a0 Quite the thrill to pass Hastings hero Tom Andrews (\u201cnice pace, Mark!\u201d) and even Jenn Sheppard \u2013their overall times were faster, of course, but only by a couple of minutes!\u00a0 The last few miles were longer and longer (in fact, I never saw a sign for Mile 11, I think), and I had a little left in the tank to run hard the last half mile.<\/p>\n

\"Toughman<\/a>
Toughman Half, 2013- finish line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Got to the finish line and broke my goal of 5:30, finishing in 5:26:25, including a 1:55\u00a0 half marathon.\u00a0\u00a0 5th out of 40 in my age group, 133 out of 460 overall.\u00a0 Not bad for my first 70.3, and only 15 months ago after my first sprint triathlon.\u00a0 Early morning biking partner Ben Clifford pointed out: \u201cif you plotted your races on a graph…\u201d\u00a0 Yeah, I hate to admit it, there\u2019s a trajectory here.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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