Tuesday before General Smallwood

I have not prepared much for this race. I'm a bit nervous about how long it's going to take me to finish! Here is my very rough estimate of times.

• Swim-26 minutes for 750 meters. This distance is about half a mile. At St A's I did 1500 meters in 52 minutes. So, yeah, I'll just divide that by two to get my estimate for this sprint.
• Transition 1 at St. A's: 7:04. It'll probably be about the same here as well!
• Bike-One hour and 20 minutes to do the 18 miles. I might average about 13 MPH. That's what I did at St. A's. It may be faster. I had a flat to change there. Let's say I can do 13.5 MPH.
• Transition 2 at St. A's: 6:12
• Run: 48 minutes to do the 3 miles. That's doing 16 minute miles. At St. A's my pace was 16:38
• Overall time: 2 Hours and 47 minutes. Gross. I did St. A's in 4:41. So I'll want to do this one in at least half of that. I should aim for 2: 20.

Blah. I think the people I'm training with are aiming for 2:30 for their international distance. I really will be embarrassed if my sprint time is more than their international time.

Edit: I did a 800 yard (~725 meters) swim today that took right at 20 minutes. However, when I got out of the pool I was a smidge dizzy! I need to not swim that fast at the race. It will not do me any good to swim 5 minutes faster, if my transition time is increased by 5 minutes of resting!

Also, the bike is actually 16 miles, not 18. So I think the ride will actually take 1:12.

So, the new race goal:

• Swim-23 minutes for 750 meters.
• Transition 1: 5 minutes
• Bike-One hour and 12 minutes to do the 16 miles.
• Transition 2: 5 minutes
• Run: 48 minutes to do the 3 miles.
• Overall time: 2 Hours and 33 minutes.