- Oh, spillage, spillage, spillage.
Morning, Trainiacs, it is the day before
Half Iron Man Coeur d'Alene, let's get psyched up.
(upbeat music)
Alright, there we go.
By popular demand, we did this last year
before Half Iron Man Campeche where day before the race
I just have a you and me sit down, heart to heart,
uncut for eight minutes, kind of let you know
what I'm talking about.
Helps me save a little bit of time
so I can get ready for the race tomorrow.
Now, I gotta start out by saying,
by the time you watch this at about noon on Sunday,
the first day that this gets published,
the Kickstarter campaign for
the Team Trainiac Training Platform is over.
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed it already.
We are 12 times what I thought we were gonna get.
We've raised almost 30000 dollars Canadian, this is immense.
Thank you all so much.
If you wanna get in on that and get a discount
on the training platform when it comes out,
there will be a link in the description below to this.
So, let's talk about what our plans are for the race.
Now, I wrote down a couple of ideas
of what we gotta talk about here.
So number one, if you wanna follow me,
everyone always asks, "What's your bib number?"
It's bib number 215, best way to follow
is the Iron Man Tracker app.
There are a whole bunch of fake ones out there,
it's a free one, so if there's anything
that you've gotta pay for, that's not it.
Go and download the Iron Man Tracker app
and bib number 215 has all of the up to date updates.
That sounds right.
Now, let's talk about the race plan.
The plan, based off the Olympic race
that I did couple weeks ago, is to go out in the swim,
go really hard for the first 300, 400 meters,
get on some ideally fast feet, kinda situate myself
around the 27 minute swimmers, and if I can
get on their feet and hang on for a little while,
get dragged along, good.
If I can't and they swim away, I got open water, all good,
because what I'm targeting is
about a 1:30 per 100 meter time,
and I'm assuming there's gonna be
a little bit of zigzagging, so over the course
of 1950 meters, we're looking at about
a 30 minute Half Iron Man swim.
The bike, really not sure what I'm capable of,
but according to best bike split,
which really proved itself to be inaccurate last year,
I'm hoping for around a 2:30 bike split.
That's a big question mark, there's a lot of hills,
however, biking has been going pretty well.
The run, I'm looking for about a 1:35.
What I'm gonna do is I'm not gonna be
pacing myself for a 1:35, which is a 4:30 per kilometer,
which is like a seven minute mile.
Instead, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pace myself
for about a 4:20 to 4:25 per kilometer, and then,
as I go through aid stations, about maybe three, four times
thoroughwort the race, if I start feeling
my form start breaking down, I'll walk
for 20 real purposeful steps, kinda reset my brain,
and that 20 steps is gonna really bring down my time,
but it's gonna allow me to regroup
and run with good form for the rest of the race.
So hopefully, between running a little bit faster
than that 4:30 pace and then being able to slow down
while not losing a ton of time, so that I can run well
toward the end of the race, hopefully a 1:35 half marathon,
which gets you to a 4:35 Half Iron Man,
add about five minutes for screw ups,
dropped chain, mechanical, transition.
Nothing has gone right in any...
I haven't had a single Half Iron Man
where everything has gone right,
so assume that there's a mistake, gets me to about a 4:40.
I think if everything goes really well,
we're hoping for a 4:40 time, but my previous personal best
is a 4:46, so anywhere under 4:46, I am elated.
But I don't know, I've stopped pinning my hopes and dreams
to a certain time, because as I found out in Campeche,
sometimes the hot weather won't allow for it.
It's gonna be blazing hot tomorrow, like high 80's.
Sometimes the course won't allow for it,
like all the turns that were in Austin won't allow for it.
So, I kinda just wanna plan for the best case scenario,
but whatever happens happens.
As long as I can execute the race, I'll be happy.
Now, hashtag real talk here, am I nervous?
I wouldn't say I'm nervous, but I do feel pressure,
and I think I feel that more this year
because of how many messages I've gotten
with people saying that they're rooting for me
and that's extremely motivating and I know
from what happened last year that all of those messages
push me to keep going and not walk
and fight as hard as I can when it gets hard,
but I also, I wanna do well for you all.
I want to have a good race, to show you
that hard work can pay off, and I feel pressure
because of that, but it's a good pressure.
It makes me focus, it makes me focus on the process.
It makes me stay calm as opposed to
getting nervous and jittery, to just kind of
take everything step by step and think less about myself
and any anxiety or nerves that I might have
and more about, I don't know, how this is
less about me and more about us, if that makes sense.
So, yeah, am I nervous?
Little bit, but it's more of a pressure nerves.
It's more of a focus nerves.
All that said, this is an awesome town.
I've gotta say thanks so much to Phil and Cindy
for housing Kim and I, amazing hosts.
The CDA tri-club, it was amazing how welcoming you were
of me at the dinner last night,
and everyone that reached out and said hi
while I was checking in yesterday, thank you so much.
All of that is extremely motivating.
It makes coming to these races the best part
about what we do, because in Winnipeg, we're pretty isolated
and I don't really feel that connection
when all I'm doing is talking to a camera,
but when I can come here and see all the people
who do watch these videos, that is the part of the pressure,
but that's also the part of what
makes these races really special,
so I think we're at seven minutes right now
and I wanted to get it in under eight.
Thank everyone that has been a part of this race,
housing, tri-club, allowing me to train,
pros that I've met, volunteers, the community.
Coeur d'Alene is a very open, welcoming place,
and thanks to all the Trainiacs for everything you do.
Follow me on Iron Man Tracker, number 215.
Link to the Kickstarter is in the description below.
Later, Trainiacs.
Let's do this.