Too lazy

I ordered my Florida 70.3 photo today. I got the 3 photo page with my finish time. This is my first ever triathlon so it was worth the extra money for more of a keepsake. It will have my finish time on it so I had to hit the results page to see what my time was. The official results are posted. The official results allow all kinds of sorting which is really cool so I sorted on overall run time. I basically showed me that I was totally lazy on the bike and I'm a super slow swimmer.

I remember early on during the bike toning it down on purpose. I really just went through the bike easy. I can say now that I really was using this as a good feel for the IM distance. I don't care too much but it is funny looking at the results sorted by running time. There was only one swim slower than mine with a faster run. I was like minutes slower on the bike than everyone around my time on the run except for a woman between 18-24 who was almost exact with her bike and run as me.

During next year's Florida 70.3, I will really push the bike and see how that goes. It will be interesting to see how it affects the run. Next year's training will hopefully be different as an Ironman won't be looming causing to me to train like Rocky in Rocky IV when he fears for his life. Although, I think with my wetsuit the thought of drowning is now less likely. Even I'm completely spent at the 2 mile mark I can just float in the wetsuit to make it to the end.

I still haven't had the mental breakthrough on my run. I don't have the HTFU mental edge I used to have with running. I had it before the last two marathons which were my last two real running races. They destroyed that mental edge that I had used in a ton of previous races to put the hammer down. Now I run scared not wanting to put out that extra effort worried that I'll blow up and not be able to finish. If I can get my foot feeling good, I will need to put in quite a few killer tempo workouts to get it back. I'm hoping if I just go hard without caring if I totally get destroyed that it will come back. I'm going to need to rely on this during the marathon. I will need to be tough when the pain comes.

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