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On the 4th loop of the run…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was planned to be my longest race of the season, fit my schedule, and was in a scenic part of Pennsylvania where I might have visited my cousins if their schedules had fit, so I didn’t even look at the course until just before the race:\u00a0 1.2 mile swim in a big, clean lake; 56 miles through a lot of rolling hills and some short steep ones; and 13.1 miles of running four loops around a ridiculously hilly course.\u00a0 (Add ’em up – 70.3 miles – a.k.a. a Half-Ironman\u00ae distance).\u00a0 Ignorance was bliss…<\/p>\n

Actually, I almost wasn’t able to race. On the Tuesday before the race, I “supplemented” a rest day (mistake no. 1) with kettle bell deadlifts, which I belatedly remembered are different from kettle bell swings (mistake no. 2) and hurt my lower back. A tweak in the morning, a growing awareness in the afternoon, hard to walk by evening.\u00a0 Coach Debi recommended YouTube videos to stretch my QL. Man, they WORKED. Did it again Saturday morning, texted Kevin Carlsten (whom I had convinced to do his first 70.3), that I’d be ready by 2 pm, and we were off!<\/p>\n

Small race – 750 people including the Olympic distance (oh, that would have been lovely…), 250 in our race. Set up in transition- and couldn\u2019t find my racing glasses!\u00a0 Oh, well, my regular glasses would have to do.\u00a0 And couldn’t find my baggy of Ucan powder for electrolytes and carbs! Oh, well, I had a plan B: EAA crunchy tablets, more Huma gels than I really needed for both the bike\u00a0and run, and chewable Saltstick tabs. So, overstuffed the Bento box with fuel (need a bigger one, even if it’s less aerodynamic!) hustled onto the line for the outhouses, went to the warmup area of the lake (a very shallow, very weedy lagoon – useless!) and shivered waiting for the race to start. But:\u00a0 bumped into Rob Martzen, fresh from IM Lake Placid, and Jan Swenson, there to cheer on Fran – and Kevin again, with whom I buddied up for a bizarre swim start:\u00a0 two at a time, “two seconds” from the pair ahead of you, sitting and pushing off from a dock!<\/p>\n

The staggered beginning around a big, counterclockwise rectangle made for an immediate realization: very hard to find someone off whom I could draft. Because if I could catch ’em, they were too slow for me. \u00a0And if they could catch me, I\u2019d better be ready to hustle to stick with \u2018em.<\/p>\n

I started comfortable and smooth, and building into a strong, deliberate, faster groove, sleeveless and loving the 73 degree water, breathing to the right on the first leg to avoid looking into the sun, alternating sides on the second and third leg, breathing\u00a0 right on the fourth. And passing people, not knowing if they were my age group, but feeling (maybe for the first time) that I was in my element, for the whole swim. Felt like I had a current behind me, lifting me forward. Wasn’t prepared to climb a ladder onto the dock, and couldn’t find the rungs for a moment, but stumbled onto land, hooray!\u00a0 Time, including stumbling across the transition mat while peeling off the top of the wetsuit:\u00a0 34:50, or 1:49\/100 meters. Solid, but more importantly, comfortable in a way I hadn’t known.<\/p>\n

Pretty good transition (3:09), considering that I couldn\u2019t get the wetsuit off my ankles\u2026 Because I had registered late (and was racked with those who picked up packets on race day), I couldn\u2019t estimate how many in my age group had already left.\u00a0 So I run out as best I can, assuming I\u2019m in the middle of the pack.\u00a0 (Mistake no. 3.)<\/p>\n

Ah, the bike.\u00a0 We had been told we\u2019d be on the Poconos Raceway, but I hadn\u2019t realized until we\u2019d been riding a few miles that they meant a NASCAR raceway.\u00a0 Pretty cool to be on such flat, well-paved tarmac, made to go zoom, including the banked roadway on the way back.\u00a0 We get back on the regular road, played leap frog with a woman almost my age, passing her, she passes me, back and forth, until I failed to shift to a low enough gear to deal with the turnaround at mile 10, and she takes off.\u00a0 I kept planning to say, \u201cDamn, you\u2019re fast!\u201d but I didn\u2019t catch up with her to say so until after the race finished\u2026<\/p>\n

I knew it was rolling hills, net downhill the first 38 miles, then a short sharp ascent in the village of White Haven, and the balance of 18-19 miles (it\u2019s a slightly long course) is net uphill.\u00a0 I had started out pretty much alone, passing a few people, feeling strong, but I had found early on that my injured back really ached when I climbed, so I was staying in aero position as much as possible.\u00a0 I dropped from averaging 20-21 mph to 14-15 mph going up the steep sections, trying to keep my heart rate within zone 2 (131-141), working my nutrition, drinking most of my 3 bottles of water (OK, that may have been overkill and not worth the weight).\u00a0 The roads are beautiful, the weather is amazing (breezy, starting at 69 degrees, reaching to 80), shady under the trees, beautiful sunshine.<\/p>\n

But folks starting passing me. A lot of guys didn\u2019t have their age marked on their calves, so I was assuming that the older-looking ones were my age group, and feeling like I was being repeatedly dropped by the competition.\u00a0 (Another mistake\u2026) \u00a0Every 70.3 race, I am reminded how LONG 56 miles can be, and was pretty spent and ready for the change of a run by the time I finished:\u00a0 3:04:39, or 18.55 mph average.\u00a0 Not my fastest, but solid, especially with that terrain.<\/p>\n

Get off the bike, sit down to change shoes, and stumble out of transition area.\u00a0 A terrific T2 \u2013 only 1:29.<\/p>\n

But, my back, my poor back: I can barely walk!\u00a0 I hobble, then walk, then jog, trying to get back to that good feeling I had the morning before, and amazingly, after around a \u00bd mile, it feels okay.\u00a0 However, it feels exhausting.\u00a0 I finish Mile 1, and I am ready to be DONE.\u00a0 And it\u2019s 12.1 miles to go\u2026<\/p>\n

Four, brutal 3.2-mile loops.\u00a0 Steep hills out of the resort area (there\u2019s an older, heavy woman sitting in a chair at the top of the first hill, cheering us on, God bless her), I\u2019m averaging 9:30s, more hills, a flat section, then downhill where I\u2019m averaging 8:10s (there\u2019s a volunteer running in place, dancing and waving her arms as she shouts \u201cTo the right, to the right!\u201d), to a turnaround where we cross the timing chip mats, back past the dancing woman (by the second loop it becomes unbearable to hear her\u2026), up again, a short out and back to add mileage to the Olympic 10k course so our race will add up to 13.1, up, up, up a long hill, back down past the crowds near transition\u2026.<\/p>\n

4 times.<\/p>\n

By the second loop, I\u2019m not only walking the water stops, but also walking the steep hills.\u00a0 I wonder about quitting, but I stop to pee in an outhouse (losing another 2 minutes, but what does it matter, I\u2019m so far behind everyone\u2026. Another mistake), and stumble uphill.\u00a0 Kevin and I pass going in opposite directions; I had thought he had passed me on the bike, and that he was almost done, but he was on the second loop as well.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Carlsten — killing it on his first 70.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the third loop, I really want to quit, but manage to get through it.\u00a0 As I finish THAT loop, I overhear a spectator say, \u201cI mean, if he finished 6 miles, he could have friggin\u2019 WALKED the rest of the race!\u201d and realized that someone else had quit, it wasn\u2019t me, and I only had one loop to go. \u00a0Kevin catches up, I gasp that I might walk the rest of the way, he goes on and walk\/runs as well, I walk a lot more, depleted, passed by a guy in a green felt, pointed cap (dressed as either Pinocchio or Peter Pan, I\u2019m not sure \u2013 but it\u2019s like the NY Marathon, you know things are bad when the guys in costume pass you), and when I ask him, he confirms that he\u2019s in my age group.\u00a0 So I am sure that I am struggling for 6th<\/sup>, 7th<\/sup> or 10th<\/sup> place, and I lose my give-a-damn. (Two more mistakes\u2026)<\/p>\n

So by Mile 11, I am walking as much as running, but I pick it up at the top of that last long hill, and stumble some more, digging deeper to reach that sweet finish line.\u00a0 And I have survived perhaps the hardest run I\u2019ve ever known, and my back is intact, and I finished:\u00a0 2:05:56, or 9:37\/mile, and a total finish of 5:50:01.\u00a0 A good 25 minutes slower than my better races.<\/p>\n

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Ah, the Finish Line…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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And then the shock:\u00a0 4\/13 for my AG, 77\/239 overall!\u00a0 I was in 3rd<\/sup> place the WHOLE RACE up to somewhere between Mile 8 and 11 of the run!\u00a0 If I hadn\u2019t made all those mistaken assumptions about being the last in the pack, I wouldn\u2019t have stopped to pee.\u00a0 I might have worked harder, I coulda been a contender and on the podium.<\/p>\n

Look, it might not have made a difference \u2013 I might still have \u201clost\u201d to the 3rd<\/sup> place finisher by a minute or two \u2013 but the lesson here is not assume, by default, that I\u2019m alone in the race because I\u2019m BEHIND everyone.\u00a0 I might be alone because I\u2019m AHEAD. (And also: \u00a04th place isn’t really a\u00a0“loss” after finishing a Half Ironman distance.)<\/p>\n

Rough race.<\/p>\n

Glad it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

When\u2019s the next one?<\/p>\n

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Home again, home again with Kevin – and a car full of bicycles and gear…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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