The Race:
The Ironman 70.3 race consists of a 1.2 mile swim,
56 mile bike and a half marathon (13.1 miles), all completed back to back in
that order.
The Buffalo Springs Lake 70.3 is on June 25, 2006
in Lubbock, TX.
My Goals:
I have never participated in a
triathlon to speak of. I do have one race, an Olympic distance tri,
planned in May as a warm-up test. That race is about half the length
of the 1/2 Ironman.
My specific goal for the Buffalo
Springs race is to finish in under six hours. That essentially gives
me about 30 minutes for the swim, 3 hours for the bike and 2 hours 20
minutes for the run, with about 10 minutes in there somewhere for the two
transitions, T1 & T2.
That all comes out to be about 1:25
min:sec per 100 yards on the swim, 18.7 miles an hour on the bike, and 10:40
per mile for the run.
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