The Ironman Triathlon And A Glass Of Water

Title:
The Ironman Triathlon-And A Glass Of Water
Word Count:
839

Summary:
If I could take one thing back from all the ironman training I did over the years, it would be
If you are an age grouper or a novice Ironman, there is really no point in spending hours and

Keywords:
Ironman, Ironman triathlon, Ironman swim, marathon

Article Body:
If I could take one thing back from all the ironman training I did over the years, it would be
If you are an age grouper or a novice Ironman, there is really no point in spending hours and
It seems that there are many ironman athletes out there who push way to hard in the swim. The

I firmly believe the reason so many people hit the wall in the marathon, is because they expen

There’s no medal for swimming fast. There’s not even a t-shirt if you swim fast and don’t cros


Take for example Kona, 1984. The winning swimmer was Djan Madruga. You might be asking yoursel

This is where my theory comes in of running an Ironman like your energy, strength and enduranc

Try and avoid expending half of that glass of water before you even get on the bike. That mean

I remember the race where I finally began to understand pace and how best to nurse that all im

It began with learning how to swim easier--or--more efficiently, and not faster. I learned how
For the first 40 km. of the bike I let myself get into the rhythm of the change of demands on

I could "not" believe the run. Normally, it was a struggle from mile one. This time I seemed t

To emphasis my point, I remember beginning to count the athletes I passed as the marathon prog

Needless to say, everyone I passed was either faster than me in the swim, on the bike, or in t

Just do the math. Say I’m running about an 8:15 pace like I did that year, from start to finis

I believe the best place to empty that glass is about 1 kilometer from the finish line. Its ab


I also think its best to be on empty just before the finish, because like me, if you finish an
And hey! You don’t want to wonder years down the road if you left something out on the course

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