Sir Jibbenstein wrote:Interesting perspective. I guess these are thoughts that come with experience. The idea of pacing 3 events not just one is only starting to come in now, I guess it depends on how you approach the sport as well. Should certainly be food for thought for everybody.
In my youthful exuberance, when doing duathlons at my local evening league, I would just go off as fast as I could and try and hang on as long as possible, over a period of time I could stay on their tails longer but always trailed off. Then I changed tactics, started slower, but maintained a faster overal pace, I still lost, but the gap was smaller.
In the swim I will try and swim wide, stay out of the maelstrom and move through the heaving masses as they fall foul to the over exuberance at the start, I may swim slightly further, but again the pace is quicker. Yes, it does take practice, an oft repeated expression, and I think is mentioned by Spencer Smith in one of the Tri mags, but it has been around for ages is, " the winner is not always the fastest, but the one who slows down the least ".
Adopting this, allows me to help compensate for my injuries, the more youthful, may not find this practice works for them, just a different rambling viewpoint.