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Ironman Canada - 9:42:46 AG #4 (Amateur #8) OA #16
Well, it's been a bit of a mad dash in June and July, with a lot of racing, and a lot of chasing. Wasn't pretty most of the time, but the dust has settled and it seems I have kicked and screamed my way back into the Ironman World Championships in Kona. And that feels right.
Whistler was extraordinary. The venue and part of the world has absolutely left a mark on me. The air was invasively clean compared to Los Angeles and I can't remember anything I ate besides blueberries and wild salmon. The views, scenery, active people everywhere, fun town, the way Canadians talk…it was all great.
So the race…I knew it was going to be a big one. I thought coming off Vineman, even though it was only 2 weeks ago, was going to set me up to drop a hammer on this thing, even with 6500 feet of climbing on the bike and a very hilly run against a big body. I didn't care. I was going to transcend all that. Swim was absolutely stunning. It reminded me of exactly a year ago when I was in Zurich for Ironman Switzerland - cannot give much higher marks to either venues. A business casual swim brought me out of the water in 57 minutes. Top pros swam around 51. There weren't any top, top end swimmers, but 57 was still a great result for me. I can attribute this entirely to my skill work with Tower 26 and just being comfortable in pack swimming. Last year, I often went into swims with something to prove and would kill myself for every second - and most of the time, I also sought out clear water so I could swim alone. This year, I just kinda cruise, hunting for feet or hips or shoulders. Lazy. When you have the skills, this approach works. But now I need to swim more. I need to graduate a pack before the big show, before they take my fancy wetsuit away.
In my mind before the race, I thought best case I could swim a 57 and bike a 4:55. I thought if I could get onto that run before 6 hours, I would have a good gap to hold off the runners and contend for overall amateur. My bike was solid, not spectacular. I think it's hard for me to be spectacular on a course like Whistler. Came in with a 5:04. Normalized power was 290, average 273 - and I don't have enough experience breaking things down to know if on a course with as much 0 watts as Whistler if losing 67 average watts between Vineman 70.3 and this full is a huge drop…but I have a feeling it is. I came into transition in 10th place overall and second amateur - there was a 56/4:57 ahead of me.
The run won. I thought 3:18-3:25 coming in. I ran a 1:25 in St. George - so I still believe that's an earned estimate. Planned on heading out at a 7:30 pace, which would have actually been a 7:15 pace in the early miles and set me up well for the long, slow, bleed out that is an Ironman marathon. Instead, I started out in the 7:30's and just couldn't find rhythm. The course was rolling…rocks, pavement, dirt, planks -- absolutely beautiful but I was struggling. Third and fourth place amateur passed me around mile 10. I think a couple more got me around 17. The last 3 got me in the fog of the last 9. But I fought for it. When I had to walk steep hills, which was often coming home, I took them on like a power-walk psychopath and then picked back up into good, committed running. Like I said before, by no means was this effort pretty, but I got the job somewhat done in a 3:35 -- a huge failure based on estimates, but I am taking heaps from it. And I'm excited for the coming opportunities to make it the outlier I know it is. Even in the bastard swelter of the Queen K. Bet on it.
Time for a break. Time for a reset. I know Mt. Tremblant and Kona are the next two up, but the one thing I have to do right now is take 10-15 days and just clean out and reset. First three races of the year were great. Sharp, focused, executed. These last 3 have been a little funky. My run has been seriously funky. I'm excited to make inspired revisions and move forward. Now that I've been around this game long enough I know - everything is pattycake before the WC's. They are a rack of money balls.
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