London redux: Pics and numbers
Aug. 4th, 2009 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesThe numbers are out. This was a 481-strong wave of male 35-39 age-groupers: as fiercely competitive a group as I'll ever race against. No bonus points for eating up half a field of "your mum on a shopper" this time.
Swim: 41:27; 448th (93rd percentile). Could be worse...
T1: 4:39; 197th - booyah! 40th percentile! ha! Take that, Cracknell!
Bike lap 1: 38:18; Bike lap 2: 37:47 (faster because I'd worked out the racing line and so on). Bike total: 1:16:04; 363 (75th percentile). I normally get around midway in the field and I was going well, which shows that these guys weren't messing around.
T2: 4:25; 366th; 76th percentile. A surprise dismount meant I couldn't get out of my shoes and had to clip-clop around the hall.
Run lap 1: 32:43; Run lap 2: 32:17; Run total: 1:04. 476 in the run. 99th percentile! Damn near the last man standing. Horror show, horror show. Consistent times for each lap because, well, a shamble is a shamble.
Race total: 3:11:42 - out of a field of 481: 446 (92nd percentile)
No pics in the water - lots of green swim hats, nothing to see! Then out on the first bike lap:
Second lap, getting into it...
Out 2k into the run and praying my legs fire up soon...
8k done and still no spark: it's a death-march in the sun...
Sprint for the camera!
Fall down go boom.
Swim: 41:27; 448th (93rd percentile). Could be worse...
T1: 4:39; 197th - booyah! 40th percentile! ha! Take that, Cracknell!
Bike lap 1: 38:18; Bike lap 2: 37:47 (faster because I'd worked out the racing line and so on). Bike total: 1:16:04; 363 (75th percentile). I normally get around midway in the field and I was going well, which shows that these guys weren't messing around.
T2: 4:25; 366th; 76th percentile. A surprise dismount meant I couldn't get out of my shoes and had to clip-clop around the hall.
Run lap 1: 32:43; Run lap 2: 32:17; Run total: 1:04. 476 in the run. 99th percentile! Damn near the last man standing. Horror show, horror show. Consistent times for each lap because, well, a shamble is a shamble.
Race total: 3:11:42 - out of a field of 481: 446 (92nd percentile)
No pics in the water - lots of green swim hats, nothing to see! Then out on the first bike lap:
Second lap, getting into it...
Out 2k into the run and praying my legs fire up soon...
8k done and still no spark: it's a death-march in the sun...
Sprint for the camera!
Fall down go boom.
