The Folsom Sprint Triathlon proved a HUGE difference from the Tri For Real Olympic Distance race last weekend.\u00a0 After suffering from dehydration and low energy last weekend, I definitely learned my lesson for today.\u00a0 I drank copious amounts of water and “carbo” loaded (pizza and spaghetti) the last two days prior to\u00a0the event.\u00a0 What a difference!\u00a0 I felt great in warm-ups; strong and energetic.\u00a0 In the swim, I wanted to\u00a0follow\u00a0 my two\u00a0basic rules:\u00a0 relaxed recovery and forceful expulsion of air under\u00a0water.\u00a0The most common mistake\u00a0I make is to not expel my\u00a0air after breathing,\u00a0causing oxygen deprivation after a couple of minutes.\u00a0\u00a0It proved a little difficult to weed through previous waves, but\u00a0I ended up\u00a0with the fastest swim split overall by about\u00a01:50.\u00a0\u00a0More importantly, I felt fast and in control, knowing I was having\u00a0a great swim.\u00a0 After a quick transition to the bike\u00a0(1:05, 3rd fastest)\u00a0 I wanted to make sure to build into the bike and focus on keeping a high cadence\u00a0for the first\u00a05-7 miles of “uphillish” riding to conserve power.\u00a0 I knew I was going well\u00a0with good,\u00a0fast, race pace\u00a0breathing,\u00a0but great energy.\u00a0\u00a0I ended up\u00a0with the second\u00a0fastest bike split overall and\u00a0again, more\u00a0importantly, knew I had a good bike leg\u00a0based on my\u00a0cadence and\u00a0perceived power.\u00a0 I posted the second fasted T2 at :44 seconds and immediately got into my rhythm on the run.\u00a0 I wanted to make sure I stayed powerful and focused\u00a0on the run.\u00a0\u00a0I ended up\u00a0with the\u00a07th fastest run split,\u00a0but was happy with the\u00a0effort and focus.\u00a0 I ended up as the fasted overall amateur\u00a0behind a young, \u00a0pro triathlete by\u00a01:56.\u00a0\u00a0While the final ranking feels great, I am\u00a0most pleased with the fact that I raced hard and executed on the race goals and preparation.<\/p>\n
Todd Heinzen, o2fitness Athlete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Folsom Sprint Triathlon proved a HUGE difference from the Tri For Real Olympic Distance race last weekend.\u00a0 After suffering from dehydration and low energy last weekend, I definitely learned my lesson for today.\u00a0 I drank copious amounts of water and “carbo” loaded (pizza and spaghetti) the last two days prior to\u00a0the event.\u00a0 What a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog","tag-todd-heinzen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}