...and lost
We made the mistake of thinking we had it in the bag. Our runner said she was good for 42 and we didn't think anyone there could pull 8 minutes. Look at the results afterwards and boy was I wrong, first place team pulled a 32:07 10k to win by 2 minutes.
Props to you runners, I don't know how you guys do it.
Posted Jun 28, 2011, 6:10 AM UTC
don't feel too bad. 32:07 in the 10K is pretty damn good.
Pretty good?! That's 5:10 pace. I'll take that any day.
You guys confuse me when you quote a mile-based pace for a run measured in kilometers!
Edit: for the metric audience, the runner in question pushed 3:12/km. Holy crap....
First i'm thinkin that's not that great... i mean pretty good after doing all that biking and swimming ... then I pause and look back.. is it 5k or 10 k... then I spit my cereal on my monitor.
I think you need to look back up. It's a relay so the person doing the running didn't do any biking or swimming.
Still 5:10 is a lot faster than I'll ever be able to run.
Dont feel bad....a 32:07 in a tri is god tier time. The 42:00 10k is 6:45 pace I think, which is pretty fast.
Yeah, 42 is still pretty fast. If it's any perspective on the matter, the best runner in my city's largest 10k this year was a 30:22. That's kind of the elite level here I guess. The average time (excluding people under 40 minutes and over 90 minutes) was 58 minutes. I think, assuming my city is a good sample group, that that makes 42 pretty impressive still.
I am blown away that someone could pull of a 32:07 10k during a triathlon. What the hell am I doing.
It was a relay, so they were running fresh.
It was a relay, though, so the runner did not swim or bike first. Still an impressive run, obviously.
As the old saying goes: Triathlons are won on the run.
You can't win a tri during the swim, but you can certainly lose one.
that's cause you cant drown running.
They can still call in the ambulance to haul you off during the run.
I saw a couple of people sitting on the side of the road with that glazed look in their eyes during the half marathon leg of my last race. Not good.
Simple as it is, I was surprised to learn that's the reason the run is always the last. Because when you are dead-tired you better not be in the water or on your bike.