Locked and loaded here in IMAZ!
I spent most of the day following along with Anders' progress at the North Face 50-mile ultra trail run which he crushed with a little more than 10 hour race. Ran the whole thing (with the exception of the the very steep trail climbs--of which there were a few since the course has more than 10,000 feet of vertical and as a bonus, it was 51.7 miles this year!) He's in amazing shape! He did this on about 6-8 weeks of training.
Judy and he are resting up and plan to fly from San Francisco to Tempe early tomorrow and will probably see me (God willing) at some point on my bike.
The weather looks fine--a little warm on the run no doubt with low 80s forecast, but sunny and hopefully with modest wind.
I've been here since thursday and had my normal pre-race routine and since I was by my lonesome, i even went to the movies last night (saw Wonder, which was great!) I feel fine although I'm well aware that I'm grossly undertrained for this thing. Hopefully I won't pay to heavy of a price for that tomorrow. I'm Ok with suffering but want to stay healthy and happy post race.
Expectation wise, I hope and plan to finish, God willing again.
Time estimates:
Swim: 75-85 minutes
Transitions 10-15 minutes combined
Bike: 5:40-6:00
Run: 5:30-6:00
Total: 12:55-13:40
I did 11:52 here in 2011 (different body then with more body parts that were working) and 13:23 in 2012.
Going to be a long tough day.
Bring it on!
Onward and upward!
I'm bib # 150 if you want to track tomorrow...
rc
I spent most of the day following along with Anders' progress at the North Face 50-mile ultra trail run which he crushed with a little more than 10 hour race. Ran the whole thing (with the exception of the the very steep trail climbs--of which there were a few since the course has more than 10,000 feet of vertical and as a bonus, it was 51.7 miles this year!) He's in amazing shape! He did this on about 6-8 weeks of training.
Judy and he are resting up and plan to fly from San Francisco to Tempe early tomorrow and will probably see me (God willing) at some point on my bike.
The weather looks fine--a little warm on the run no doubt with low 80s forecast, but sunny and hopefully with modest wind.
I've been here since thursday and had my normal pre-race routine and since I was by my lonesome, i even went to the movies last night (saw Wonder, which was great!) I feel fine although I'm well aware that I'm grossly undertrained for this thing. Hopefully I won't pay to heavy of a price for that tomorrow. I'm Ok with suffering but want to stay healthy and happy post race.
Expectation wise, I hope and plan to finish, God willing again.
Time estimates:
Swim: 75-85 minutes
Transitions 10-15 minutes combined
Bike: 5:40-6:00
Run: 5:30-6:00
Total: 12:55-13:40
I did 11:52 here in 2011 (different body then with more body parts that were working) and 13:23 in 2012.
Going to be a long tough day.
Bring it on!
Onward and upward!
I'm bib # 150 if you want to track tomorrow...
rc
