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Race Recap: Pre-Burn Series by Threshold Racing

A 200 yard swim. A 10,000 meter bike. A 1.5 mile run. A triathlon sprint. That’s Threshold Racing’s Pre-Burn Series.

Even if you’re a long-distance triathlete, more and more coaches are recommending athletes spend more time in shorter races. With that in mind, Threshold Racing put on a series of events they call the “Pre-Burn”. These 200 yard swims, 10km bikes, and 1.5mile runs are held in a pool, on a “Watt-Bike”, and over a 2-loop parking lot run. A “fast” sprint, this triathlon puts your heart rate into Zone 4 (better known by me as the “ouch” zone) and keeps it there for the entire race. At the same time, you still have to pace yourself all the way to the finish.

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My First Marathon as a Pacer

After running several marathons, I thought it was time to try a new challenge and return a little to the running community that has given me so much. So, I volunteered to pace the Morgan Hill Marathon on October 23, 2011. When I first volunteered, I took my fastest pace, added 15 minutes, and figured that would be a good pace to be a “Pacer”. Only later did I learn three horrible things.

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SlickRock 57km Ultramarathon


Mile... uh...

Sometimes, things go well. Sometimes, things go badly. And then, when it rains in the desert, it pours.

And pours some more.

The First Annual Slickrock Ultramarathon series (50k, 50mile, and 100-mile) event faced probably the worse set of circumstances ever faced by a group of people trying to direct a fun, scenic, challenging race. A few unappreciative runners vented to the race directors, and those losers individuals who decided it was necessary to yell their frustrations only managed to make a complete ass out of themselves. From my perspective, they were lucky there was a race at all. In most, if not all, races I’ve known, if the directors had faced the same circumstances they would have cancelled the race completely. But, the SlickRock Directors didn’t, but not without trouble after trouble for all their efforts.

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Cali Sprint Tri Faces Challenges

Sometimes, you have to feel for race directors. You try to think of everything, and sometimes you just miss the obvious. Unfortunately for @norcaltriseries, the 1st Annual California Sprint Triathlon did not go at all as planned. To say many Age Groupers were upset would be an understatement. To make matters worse, not everyone ended up completing the same course, so comparison among the athletes will be impossible.

The first indications that things would not be going as planned was the announcement that the bike course, originally scheduled for 15 miles, would be changed to 14 miles due to construction in the local area. This was no big deal, But when I exited the water only 18 minutes after the start (still darn near last of my Age Group), it was an obvious sign that the swim, too, had been shortened from the advertised 1/2 mile to the more standard 1/4 mile or some other distance (there is NO way I swam .5mile in open water in 18 minutes).

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