Sorry this blog is so late, the Army news paper was suppose to do an article on the race but it never came about :(
Well since I have raced the Camp Humphreys race 3 times previously and was undefeated I wanted to make sure I showed up again to keep the winning streak for the Air Force. I missed the race in June due to being home on leave, but luckily my good friend David Temple was here to keep the streak at least with the Air Force. It is always fun to go to an Army base and take the title, so even with Kona on the horizon I asked coach to try and fit this in the schedule. The conversation normally goes something like "Coach I want to race this weekend." Coach- "Ummmm we need a big weekend of training and that doesn't really fit" Me- "Come on coach I like racing, I will do the race and then do whatever else afterwards.".......Then I get the schedule and it has no taper into it, I don't think I have ever been able to taper for a sprint, and then on top of the race there is normally another workout in the afternoon. So I always get a big training day in and get some good publicity for the Air Force.
We headed down to Humphreys with a big group from Osan, I think we had 15 people total. I was glad to be going down with a big group as we always have a good time down there. It is a well run race and they even have timing chips. They close the roads off to traffic and the course is typically accurate to the distance advertised, which is getting hard to find these days.
Swim- It was nice to get a good feel for where my swim fitness is, and a 400 meter all out swim was a good indication. I haven't been in the pool near as much as I should of been, but I was pleased with how the swim went. I was first out of the water in the first wave, but we did not all start at the same time. It was 16 people and they started down lane to lane one right after the other with about 5 seconds in between each lane. They didn't want the timing system to get messed up. Time-5:50(1:27per/100m)
Bike- The transition was smooth from the pool to the bike and as I was headed out the second guy out of the water was just coming out of the pool. I really just wanted to focus on my power and try and get into the 300's, since it was only 20K. There was a weird wind and it seemed like we were always riding into it and never had a tail wind, even though it was an out and back. Lap 1 I split 15:04, with 283Watts. Lap 2 I split 14:48, with 280Watts, ahh the numbers and how they are confusing. And then the course was a half mile long so I had a "3rd Lap"(I had my garmin set to auto lap each 10K) of 1:24. Time-31:18 (24.7mph/avg-281Watts,Norm Power-289)
Run- This is what I was really excited about. I have had quite a few brick workouts this year and my legs are really starting to run well off the bike. They come to me really quick and there isn't a lot of adjustment time like I use to have, it use to take a mile or two before the really started feeling like running legs. The course has some small rolling hills on it but it is pretty fast in my opinion. I hit the first mile in 5:48, then 5:57, then closed with a 5:48. I was really happy with my run, but it was .08 short, so just under the 5K, but I guess that makes up for the "long" bike ;) Time-17:40 (5:51min/mile avg)
Overall Time-56:01/1st Place Age Group/1st Place Overall
I was really pleased with the race and how it went. A good friend of mine Aaron tried to stack a relay team to beat me, as I was being a little cocky and told him I had never lost the overall race, even to a team. So we made a bet of some beer and wine and he showed up with a team. Come to find out after the race, I didn't know what there team name was till they showed me the results, it was "BEAT BRAD WILLIAMS", but somehow the results showed "BEAT READ WILLIAMS", my name gets butchered more and more, IM Korea Kona Qualifying list, IM 70.3 Germany Medical Form, who knows what it will be in Kona. Anyways Aarons team is the closest that anyone has come to beating me and was withing 2 minutes, it was nice to drink some beers on him that Saturday night ;)
Thanks again for all the support, Kona is 13 days out and I fly out in 5, can't wait to get there and be surrounded by the worlds best triathletes!
Here are some pics from the race:
Coming out of the pool
The bike all setup in T1
The homestretch and yes I am a heel striker ;)
The Finish line, with wave starts you never know if you actually won or not. However I was the first across the line.
The Osan Mulitsport Athletes cleaned house on awards!
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