Redman Pre-Race

My other pre-race post was more of a play by play, and didn't cover how I felt. This post will do that.

In CDA I was over-trained and under-tapered. I knew that to some extent going in but didn't realize the depth of it. I had my trust in the training plan and it's source. Turns out my trust was misplaced. Hard lesson to learn, but that's what I learned.

This time around, I actually worried that I was tapering too hard. The mental fog of training lifted 1.5-2 weeks before the race (it didn't clear until race week in CDA) and the physical fog lifted 1 week out. I have to give my 7-days pre-race ankle injury some credit for the physical recovery!

At 48hrs pre-race my body was fresh and energetic. I was nervous about my ankle, but it wasn't hurting, sore, or tight. At 24hrs pre-race it just didn't seem real that tomorrow I'd be racing. TOMORROW?!!? I was so calm and chill, but I was having moments of brainlessness, lack of coherent thought, indecision....and this time instead of it being fatigue it was just the expected pre-race nerves and such.

My ankle seemed perfectly fine, no pain yet some residual purpling near the toes. My tape wasn't sticking very well and I planned to just replace the key sections of it for the run.

My goals? 12:30 on the perfect, wind at by back, downhill all the way type of day.
1:30 swim
6:00 bike
4:30 run
and 30 mins of transitions and extra time.

Can I do it? I don't know, but one way to find out!