USMS 2010K National Championships

Registration is now open for the USMS 2010K National Championships. Check out their site at http://www.grinswim.org/USMS2010K/. Looking forward to another great race with Dick and his crew.

2010 Race Schedule

Here is my tentative 2010 race schedule. I will probably compete in a few adventure races and perhaps a few more swims.

1/22/2010 - USMS 1 Hour Postal Swim, Kettering, Ohio - Swim as far as you can in 1 hour

Goals:
-Complete 4700 yards in 1 Hour.

6/26/2010 – Columbus Open Water Swims, Alum Creek State Park - (1.5K, .75K and 3K swims)

Goals:
-Podium in all events
-Swim the 3K strong from start to finish

2009 Results
1.5K Open Water Swim - 19:51
.75K Open Water Swim - 10:23
3.0K Open Water Swim - 41:46

7/10/2010 - Muncie Endurathon, Muncie Indiana - Half Ironman Relay (1.2 Mile Swim)

Goals:
-Win the overall relay division
-First out of the water
-Swim Under 26 Minutes
-Have nice solid hit out before next week's "A" race.

7/17/2010 - USMS 2010 10K Open Water National Championships
Noblesville, Indiana - 10K Open water Swim

Goals:
-Podium in the 10K
-Swim under 2:15
-Hit my taper.

7/24/2010 – Great Ohio River Swim, Cincinnati, Ohio - Swim across the Ohio River and back.

Goals:
-Defend Title!

2009 Results
~.8K Open Water Swim - 8:46

9/2010 - Big Shoulders 5K, Chicago, Illinois

Goals:
-Finish Season STRONG
-Go under 1 Hour (will depend on conditions)

2009 Results
5K Open Water Swim - 1:05:36

GU

Getting ready to place a huge GU order! I am looking forward to getting some of their Recovery Brew as I haven't tried it yet.

Check out their online store, they have some really cool stuff.

100s Challenge

Completed the 100s Challenge today. Ended up not going too extreme. I did 70x100s, Chris knocked out 45 and Kip ended up with 50. Solid effort all around. Well done boys.

First Annual 100s Challenge

What is it?
Come up with a goal number for as many 100s as you can do in a 24 hour
period and try to finish them. The only rule is that your send
off/interval for the 100s must not be any slower than your send off for
your first 100. For example, if you do your first 100 on 2:00 minutes,
then that is the slowest send off you can have for the rest of your
100s.

Why?
Why the hell not?

When is it?
Saturday, December 12th.

Timeline:
7:00-8:45 Swim
9:00-10:00 Pancake Breakfast at CF Holliday Elementary School (Chris is
buying)
10:00 – 1:00 Try not to pass out
1:00 - ??? Swim

Prizes
Chris to provide!

3000 Postal

Completed the USMS 3000 Postal last weekend at the Kettering Rec Center. I did the swim with my friend Kip while Chris timed us both.

I didn't have real high hopes for the swim as while I had been training but hadn't been putting up huge efforts. I started off a little too fast with a 5:42 500. I think had I gone just a few seconds slower here I could have pulled back more time down the road.

Here were my splits by 300:
300 split 0:03:24.89
600 split 0:06:50.46
900 split 0:10:15.35
1200 split 0:13:42.11
1500 split 0:17:11.11
1800 split 0:20:44.78
2100 split 0:24:15.84
2400 split 0:27:46.39
2700 split 0:31:16.35
3000 split 0:34:39.95

I am going to take a little time off and then start building a base for next season. Have some exciting races planned for next year so I will have to get to work soon!

The Games II Adventure Race

Chris and I completed the games II Adventure race put on my Central Ohio Adventure Racing and held at Caesars Creek State Park. It was an eight hour race and Chris and I were out on the course for about 7.5 hours. It was a very long day of running, paddling, mountain biking, and orienteering.

Our goal was to pretty much finish as a ranked team, meaning that we got the required number of checkpoints in each discipline. We were able to do that but looking back I think both Chris and I realize some of the mistakes we made and know we can do better in the future.

I will try to get some pics posted and some more detail added soon.