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HELP: Long Dist Tri now a Duathlon

imc1792imc1792
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So ITU made decision yesterday (Thu in France) that due to the cold air and water temps and near freezing rain, the 4k swim has been cancelled and our 4kswim-112k bike-30krun event is now 9.5krun-87kbike-20krun.

I have never done a Du so not sure how to approach run-bike-run.

I was thinking to run the 1st leg at LRP and just switch my power on the bike to HIM zones and run MP the 2nd run leg for 20k.

Does the 9.5k lead-off run play into my bike power at all?

Comments

  • Nemo BrauchNemo Brauch
    What was your original plan for the run? Looks like they exchanged a little run time on the back side with the run time up front. That's a little easier to deal with than if they had left the original run as planned and just added more running to the overall distance. With the bike also being shortened, I don't think you need to back off or modify your bike plans at all.
  • imc1792imc1792

    Posted By Nemo Brauch on 31 May 2013 07:10 AM


    What was your original plan for the run? Looks like they exchanged a little run time on the back side with the run time up front. That's a little easier to deal with than if they had left the original run as planned and just added more running to the overall distance. With the bike also being shortened, I don't think you need to back off or modify your bike plans at all.
    Hey Nemo, my original plan for the 3 10km loops was 1st loop at 6min per k, the ramp it up by 15sec each subsequent loop. I am guessing that slow 60min run should not impact the bike too much.
  • Nemo BrauchNemo Brauch
    If you want to be conservative, I think your approach would work out fine. But since the bike is shorter and the total run distance hasn't really changed, I think you could probably afford to go a little faster on that first 9.5 K than LRP
  • Peter GreaggPeter Greagg
    Hey Tim
    It appears to be around a HIM duo, so why not aim for MP on the two runs and HIM pacing on the bike?
    After all, you aren't going to get tired swimming.
  • Nemo BrauchNemo Brauch
    Hey Tim- how did things turn out?
  • imc1792imc1792

    Nemo, well, just got back to Canada and consistent internet (have been touring France since the world championships) and noticed your question:

    the race overall went fine given the conditions. my strategy was the same as my team canada team mate for male 50-54 and that was MP to start and maybe ramp it up to HMP if we felt good. well, when the gun went off for our wave the field was gone, we knew it was fast so we hung at the back. within a couple of minutes the pure runners were way out there and we were falling back. i monitored my garmin and we were averaging HMP and not gaining on the field. At the end of the initial run segment, we passed one other in our age group. wow, not a great call but hey we'll real them in in the final 10k of the second run. and we did to some degree but in reality, we gave the pure runners too much of a lead and could not get back into the race with the shortened bike. Oh well, that being said, an amazing experience to race at the worlds and on a historical tour de france course (in the fog and over the cobble).

     

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