Ben races San Francisco Pan-America Cup
Once on the bike, I looked around and realized that about 5 of the top 7 runners were in the pack with me, and the other two were closing in quickly because a pack of fast runners typically doesn’t see the point in working hard on the bike. I followed suit, knowing that even with a recent knee injury, I would be much faster on the run than in the previous year. I had my Garmin Edge 705 collecting data during the race, including power data from my Quarq Cinqo power meter. That data is all up on my Garmin Connect account. The really interesting part of the power readout is to see what happened on the bike when Matt Reed and Matt Chrabot caught our group and started a series of relentless attacks. That was around 25 minutes into the 40km ride, and on the power graph you can see a number of large spikes in power. The speed of the group also changed from fairly steady to anything but smooth. We ended up losing a couple people off the back of the group, which pleased me greatly.
I started off the run with a lead pack of about 5 people, but just a half mile in, I started having stomach pain and had to make a pit stop at a bathroom. I’ve never had problems like this during a race, and I’m not exactly sure what I did wrong in preparation, but it definitely took some wind out of my sails. While I was off the course, I had about 12 runners pass me in a huge chase pack. Regardless, I was able to run each lap of the 3-lap, 10km-course faster than the previous lap, and my final run time was almost 5 minutes faster than last year, even with a pit stop. I reclaimed a few of the spots I lost and came in 15th overall. That makes me pretty happy, and it bodes well for the training I have been doing with my new coach.
That’s it for my rookie year as a pro triathlete, but I’m planning on doing a few cross country running races during the winter, as well as some adventurous cross country skiing trips. When I’m up in the snow I get easily lost, so it will be a great chance to use the navigation settings on my Garmin Forerunner 405.
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