'Morning!!  I did pretty good on my triathlon last night.  I improved on all three legs and finished almost three minutes better than last week (1:03:11).  I was 55/138 OA.  In combing through the results, I see every person that finished ahead of me (all 54) had a faster swim.  I need to work on that.  I was still faster than about 50 people on the swim, so I am happy about that.  I have the most to gain on the bike though.  I really have not been riding a whole lot and am still in the top half on the bike.  I have strong mountain bike handling skills, which certainly helps (bike handling, shifting, braking, steering, etc).  I can probably knock another 5 minutes off the bike if I actually rode more.  The run is what it is...I pass a lot of people there.  My run is disproportionately strong compared to my swim and bike.  Anyway, good times.  Wife had a good race too and beat last week's time.  She is in it for all 10 races.  

 

Easy run planned tonight.

Great job!

 LRB, that's awesome. Planned?

Sheeit, I am not that sophisticated. lol

I actually had no idea what I was doing this morning, I just went out and started running.

I only checked the map because I have been working on getting Garmin integrated with RA (finally) the past couple of days.

 

No birthday today, not until December. It will be a new AG one

No, sorry, if B&B determines it's your birthday, the matter is settled. Now, go out & celebrate tonight. Congrats on joining the 20-24 AG.

Congrats Baboon!

Happy Canada Day to Cy, Lily, and any other canucks on here.

I'm biking to the mall and then running partway up a mountain from there.

Thanks B+, it's raining like a mofo right now

 

Baboon (and others too, but I know baboon has one), you now hava a 920XT, but had a 620, and I know you wear your strap, so you have access to your running dynamics. I only have a foot pod, but that still gives me some dynamics, except for ground contact time and vertical oscillation. Since your 5K time is similar to mine, I was wondering what your average stride length was. Mine was 1.39m in my last 5K (my 1000m splits vary from 1.37m to 1.42m). But in the last 0.05 km split, where I was giving all I had left, my avg stride length was 1.64 m.

 

Now that my post is all written, I'm not sure what my question is since I know it's mathematical, and it's stride length x turnover = speed, so if we have a similar stride rate, then our stride lengths must be the same.

 

But I'm leaving the post anyways Maybe it'll start a discussion on running dynamics, or not

My last three 5K's:  1.24, 1.26, 1.24.  I don't have a huge stride...my run looks like a fast shuffle.  It's ugly.

And this is the first time that data has ever been useful to have.  

 

I just checked mine (I have the 620) and 1.26 is what mine was for my last 5k.  So it's nice to know my running is ugly. 

Depends on the speed you were running at onemile.  At easy pace, my stride length is about 1.10 meters (170 steps/min). At 5k pace, 1.40 meters and cadence 178-184.

The "ugly shuffle" is a combination of turnover and length.

 

 my running is ugly

I don't need a fancy watch to tell me that.

I'm biking to the mall and then running partway up a mountain from there.

So you went from hill sprints to mountain sprints? Nice.