{"id":545,"date":"2017-06-28T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2017-06-28T18:25:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:25:49","slug":"the-race-that-wasnt-62517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/28\/the-race-that-wasnt-62517\/","title":{"rendered":"The Race That Wasn’t – 6\/25\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While I did not qualify for Nationals, I was still excited for Pleasant Prairie and racing in the PC Open wave. Having been there two weeks prior for PT camp, and having had a good day of practice on Saturday, I was extremely optimistic for Sunday. Specifically, I thought I\u2019d set a PR by 10-12 minutes.<\/p>\n

That was a good thought going in, but unfortunately belief and reality separated Sunday morning\u2026<\/p>\n

In the last two weeks, I had swum more than a mile in Lake Andrea. Even with it being choppy on Saturday, I was able to make it through the 750m swim without issue. However, at some point in the first 150-200m, I started to have problems with breathing. Long story short, I think it was a combindation of CO2 buildup and a little bit of panic about not getting enough air when the buildup started. My guide was able to help get me calmed down and doing other strokes to get back to normal breathing. While it all worked out, the breathing issue added an extra 8-10 minutes to my normal swim time.<\/p>\n

T1 went well, and so did the actual bike ride. However, when we got to the dismount line, I didn\u2019t realize that my left foot had clipped back in. This meant that when I went to plant my left foot, the bike tipped over with me still on it. I was able to catch myself with my hand, so it wasn\u2019t anything major. But I still lost at least 5 minutes between having to stretch out my leg and shaking out my hand.<\/p>\n

T2 went well, and so did the run. This was the bright spot of the race. In each of the previous outdoor races this season, there\u2019s been an issue during the run (tight leg, tight back, etc.) that\u2019s ultimately made it a mess. With Eric\u2019s help, I was able to run throughout the 5K outside of about 60-80 seconds for aide stations and a few seconds during a steep uphill.<\/p>\n

While it wasn\u2019t the outcome that I wanted for the race, three main points came out of it:<\/p>\n

1) That the T1\/T2 times are continuing to decrease. While they\u2019re down dramatically from last year since I\u2019ve taken some gear out of the mix, they\u2019ve also been decreasing throughout this year.<\/p>\n

2) That I\u2019ve found a way to make running a 5K possible as part of a triathlon. I\u2019ve talked with my coach about ways to not only continue to make that happen but also to increase the pace. That will be implimentated throughout the rest of the year.<\/p>\n

3) That I\u2019ve finally got the first fall out of the way, and that it didn\u2019t lead to injury. And even more to that point that I\u2019m able to have a \u2018if it isn\u2019t broken, worry about it later\u2019 mentality rather than an \u2018oh shit\u2019 (I just fell, let\u2019s quit) one.<\/p>\n

I had a chance to meet Aaron prior to the race, and he was coming back from his bike as we were going out. An amazing athlete, and we\u2019ll see what USAT decides to do with the math for Men\u2019s PTVI QTs for 2018. There was only one other athlete able to qualify with a 12+ minute decrease from 2016 to 2017. As a side note, they did not show up to compete, so the category was just Aaron (who rocked it at less than 65 min.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I did not qualify for Nationals, I was still excited for Pleasant Prairie and racing in the PC Open wave. Having been there two weeks prior for PT camp, and having had a good day of practice on Saturday, I was extremely optimistic for Sunday. Specifically, I thought I\u2019d set a PR by 10-12 … Continue reading The Race That Wasn’t – 6\/25\/17<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,179,7,230,109,229],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-dare2tri","tag-dare2tri-paratriathlon-club","tag-james-gilliard","tag-paratriathlon-nationals","tag-pc-open","tag-pt-nationals"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}