- It's pretty warm.
- It's pretty foggy!
- Yeah.
- What are we doing here?
Tell everyone what we're doing,
if they can see you.
- Well, we're in the very famous energy labs in Hawaii.
Which we couldn't go through without taking a Billabong,
so um, plan is to hit 10 K.
- Fast right?
Just 10 K whole thing fast.
- Just 10 K.
- Super fast.
- Pretty fast.
(upbeat music)
- Alright, so here is what the energy lab is all about.
It's a section of the run course commonly known
as the point which makes or breaks athletes races.
And what it is, it's the section that starts at 16 miles
into the race and that's when things really start
getting tough for most athletes
because the fatigue accumulates.
Now it's only a 4.8 mile section but
the reason that it's so tough is because the air
just sits in here.
It's also a 138 feet of descent going down
to the very turn around at the end
and then a 138 feet of climb as you come back in.
So it's hot, you're climbing,
you're body is starting to shut down
and it's the hardest part of the course because
you're starting to get fatigue.
Why it's called the natural energy lab
even though it sucks energy is because of the solar panels
that are placed on here which takes solar energy
obviously from the sun
and they trap it for use on the Island.
There is also research done here where they bump cold water
from deep into the ocean through tubes
into the area where researchers study it.
(car honking)
Apparently they like the energy lab.
Why this is also such a key turning point in the race
is because it's also one of the only two points
on the run course where athletes get to see
where their position verses the other athletes out there.
Now when that happens down at Lee drive,
everyone is fresh, everyone can fake looking good.
Out here, this is where you have to show your cart.
Everyone knows how you're doing
and you still have about 10 to 13 K back to the finish line
and that's where the races are typically made and lost.
(uplifting music)
Whoa, this is next level.
This is inhuman, we're suppose to do 10 K there?
I did 7.3 and bailed.
Lucy is out there doing 20.
This is crazy! This is suppressive.
I mean yes, I haven't really ran hard
in two and a half weeks.
Yes, I don't do well in the heat.
Yes, this is hardcore off season for me.
But this is crazy!
(heavy breathing)
How do people do this?
(heavy breathing)
I don't know.
I was running out there at a 4.30 average pace
which is slower than what I did in Atlantic City
where I had an average heart rate of I think 155.
I was 175 here.
And the pace at 7.5 K was just going
(imitating crashing noise)
I bailed. Paz is on his own.
Dude this place is awful!
This is inhuman here.
(laughing)
I don't know how people run in here.
How are you doing just standing?
- Hot.
(chuckles)
- Sweaty.
- Do you wanna explain what running
in the energy lab is like?
(lady laughing)
- Um, it's hot but I think that's like an understatement.
Everyone probably knows its hot but um,
I actually quite like it but
- You're sick!
(laughing)
- Probably got (unclear)
- No body likes it.
(laughing)
- It's probably my favorite bit but
it's probably because it's so brutal.
(car door closes)
It's where I think the race is won or lost in here.
So, you kinda gotta be happy being in your own head in here
'cause it's pretty lonely.
- Yeah!
- And there is not much to look at so,
yeah!
- I though I'd be okay.
(plane engine roaring)
- It's brutal, it's very brutal.
- Yeah.
(plane engine roaring)
So that's it trainwrecks.
That is the 7.7 K of the race that is probably the hardest,
the most iconic section of the run out there.
The most difficult section of the run where
as you heard Lucy say, this is where a lot of it is decided.
Super exciting! I cannot believe that she enjoys that.
But I guess that's how you become
one of the best in the world.
Also, Lucy is a Rocin athlete so on that note
make sure you go to rocin.com/tarrant to win the giveaway
where you can win one of three prizes
where all you have to do is enter your email address
to win 1 of 3 prizes that total over 2,000 dollars.
I am so glad that's done!
(chuckles)
Later trainwrecks, conna!