- An average finish time in an Olympic distance race of...
Sorry to end this on a bad note but.
It's dark in the mornin' Trainiacs.
Makes me wanna go back to bed.
What do you think when,
the swim cap has like a 16th of an inch of mold on it,
it's fast right?
(cheerful music)
Now, Trainiacs.
There has been somthin' that I've wanted to find
for the last little while
and I think I found it this morning.
And that is the average time that it takes to finish
each distance of a triathlon.
I found a website that analyze like thousands,
across hundreds of different races,
and what we've got is,
average finish times for Sprint, Olympic,
Half Ironman, and Ironman.
Now, before you get all uppity and land base me
in the comments, I wanna say that,
in my opinion, these might be somewhere around
5% higher than I was expecting.
The average Sprint finish time is just under
an hour and 30 minutes, with the 750 meter swim
being done in about 18 minutes,
the 20K bike in around 40 minutes,
and the 5K run in around 28 minutes,
add a couple of transitions in there,
which makes a big difference in a Sprint Distance Race
because the distances are so short.
And you got yourself just under and hour 30.
That seems high.
Now you might be wondering what my finish time is,
personal best in a sprint, 1.0750 I believe.
Now, on to Olympic.
We are talking about an average finish time
in a Olympic distance race of three hours.
For the 1.5K swim being done in about 40 minutes,
the 40K bike in about an hour and 20 minutes,
and the 10K run in about an hour.
Now personal best was just a few weeks ago
in a course where the bike course was 3K short.
I did 2.0406, I think it was.
On like a straight legitimate course
that was actually a little bit long a couple years ago,
I did 2.1401.
Now, Half Ironman.
Of 67,000 finish times, in 40 Half Ironman triathlons,
the average was six hours.
That really seems high.
For the 1.2 mile swim, in about 40 minutes.
A 56 mile bike in three hours
and the 13.1 mile run in 2.15.
Personal best finish time in that, was 4.4646.
Just about exactly a year ago on the Duluth Superior Man;
the first Half Ironman I did.
If anything the bike was about
a kilometer too short on that.
And then finally the grand daddy of them all,
the full Ironman distance.
Whoa.
For 41,000 finishers in 25 races.
About 12 hours, 35 minutes with the swim of 2.4 miles
taking an hour, 16 minutes.
The bike of 112 miles taking six hours, 25 minutes
and the run of 26.2 miles, taking four hours and 54 minutes.
And I have yet to do a full Ironman race.
There ya' go.
You know what the full Ironman time average,
that actually seems basically bang on what I was expecting.
So we are heavily into race pace, training, two a day, runs.
Well, two workouts a day, not two runs a day.
'Cause that would just be crazy.
Who would run twice in one day?
Now swimming and running?
Easy.
Running and running?
Awful.
Magically we've been graced
with another nice weather day here.
So there's gonna be a lot of nipples out there!
A lot of nipples.
Now before you get all excited,
she's bike riding.
She's not running with me, no.
It'd be a decade before I can convince her to do that.
(cheerful music)
- Awesome view.
(dogs barking)
- What?
I'm trying!
(dogs howling)
What, what, what, what?
I'm trying, trying, trying.
(grunting)
Well that felt like a great run.
I'm supposed to be doin' that at about
4.20 per kilometer for 2K.
And then rest, at 4.45 per kilometer.
And I was down at like, 4.17 per K,
and 4.35 per K.
Feelin' good!
Feelin'
good.
We gotta talk about somethin' though that might be bad news.
A friend of mine Jacques, who did the long swim with me,
has been talking about me trade marking Trainiac.
Well, I did some research today,
looks like when I started using Trainiac,
some asswipe went and trademarked it.
If there are any intellectual property lawyers out there
that specialize in US intellectual property law,
that can help me out and tell me if even using
the word Trainiac is gonna end me up in trouble,
that would be much appreciated.
'Cause that could be a very awful thing.
Aight dudes and dudettes,
sorry to end this on a bad note but,
I guess mo' money, mo' problems, right?
Kay, any help, very much appreciate.
I'm out.