{"id":1594,"date":"2009-07-19T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2009-07-19T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T18:48:40","slug":"seafair-triathlon-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/seafair-triathlon-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Seafair Triathlon 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are side-by-side results from this year and <a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/seafair-triathlon-2008\">last year<\/a>. Without the same amount of training or the wetsuit, I didn&#8217;t do very well on the swim this year &#8212; definitely this is the first place for me to improve in the future. However, I did better everywhere else, even with a bike computer that wasn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>The lower bike transition time is due to no wetsuit, but the swim was still clearly a net loss this year by about a minute and a half. I had a few lapses of concentration on the bike, but none too long. Overall I kept my pace up pretty well, passing often, despite not knowing how fast I was going. This year my average speed on the bike was 19.08 mph, compared to 18.40 last year.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest win for me, however, was on the run. I guess the altitude training of Peru paid off, as well as a slightly different strategy. This year, I was able to push through the initial pain better because I knew it would subside. I also walked on the steepest part of the hill (last year I told myself I would not walk, so I continued to run up the hill even though people who were walking were going the same speed as me). This gave myself a little bit of time to recharge while not wasting the spring of my step on the steep part of the hill. I think the strategy paid off overall &#8212; the time certainly indicates this.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I am quite happy with this result. <a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/2009-resolutions\">My goal<\/a> was to beat my old time, which I was able to do, and with some more pool time leading up to next year&#8217;s Triathlon, I should be able to improve on this year&#8217;s result next year as well.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 344px;\" border=\"1\" width=\"423\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Year<\/td>\n<td>2008<\/td>\n<td>2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Place<\/td>\n<td>647<\/td>\n<td>649<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Age<\/td>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sex<\/td>\n<td>M<\/td>\n<td>M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Overall Time<\/td>\n<td>1:31:57<\/td>\n<td>1:28:20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Div Place<\/td>\n<td>56<\/td>\n<td>79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Swim Time<\/td>\n<td>0:16:54<\/td>\n<td>0:18:44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Place<\/td>\n<td>738<\/td>\n<td>1122<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bike Tran Time<\/td>\n<td>2:34<\/td>\n<td>2:01<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bike Time<\/td>\n<td>0:39:08<\/td>\n<td>0:37:41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Place<\/td>\n<td>504<\/td>\n<td>393<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Run Tran Time<\/td>\n<td>1:25<\/td>\n<td>1:13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Overall Pl After Bike<\/td>\n<td>515<\/td>\n<td>564<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Run Time<\/td>\n<td>0:31:55<\/td>\n<td>0:28:41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Place<\/td>\n<td>1177<\/td>\n<td>945<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>City &amp; State<\/td>\n<td>Bellevue, WA<\/td>\n<td>Bellevue, WA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are side-by-side results from this year and last year. Without the same amount of training or the wetsuit, I didn&#8217;t do very well on the swim this year &#8212; definitely this is the first place for me to improve in the future. However, I did better everywhere else, even with a bike computer that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}