5 Steps To Effectively Analyzing Your Triathlon Results
Have you been searching for your triathlon results? Are you trying to find a
way to interpret them and get faster? Then keep reading. The experts at the
Rock Star Triathlete Academy, at http://www.rockstartriathleteacademy.com/triathlonresults,
have identified five keys to effectively finding analyzing your triathlon
results.
1. Find Your Results. Obviously, you can visit the triathlon results page of
the race in which you have competed, but sites like Athlinks.com,
Trifind.com and Triresults.com allow you to not only search triathlon
results for your splits, your competitors, your races and events, but also
to compare races and find accurate data from previous year’s races.
2. Examine Your Splits. Your triathlon results are not just about your
overall race time. You must individually analyze your swim, your bike and
your run splits. How do they compare? Compare profiles of races and analyze
strength on hills vs. flats, pool vs. open water, flat water vs. ocean,
off-road vs. paved. Look at variables like your “average 100m pace”, your
“mile or km pace” for the run, and your “miles per hour or km per hour” for
the bike and the run. The purpose of this is to focus in areas of fitness on
which to focus during later season based on identified inconsistencies or
limitations in earlier season races.
3. Examine Your Data. Do you have a power meter or heart rate monitor? Look
at your triathlon results for consistency in watts and beats per minute,
identify unnecessary spikes in intensity, compare better race results to see
what you did with your heart rate and power profiles, take into
consideration the effect of evironmental variables such as heat, road
conditions or topography.
4. Generate Goals. This is the whole idea why you should analyze your
triathlon results in the first place. You need to sit down and write (yes,
WRITE!) a strategy for improving your weaknesses. Did you have a bad bike
split on a hilly course? Then begin incorporating hill repeats. Did your
performance suffer in a mass swim start? Start rubbing elbows in Masters and
get more open water swim partners. Were you slow in hot races? Begin heat
acclimatization and incorporate hydration and electrolyte strategies. How do
you think people get fast? It’s certainly not by ignoring weaknesses!
The key is to assimilate all the variables listed above to actually generate
a plan of attack in training and racing for later in the season and then to
identify areas of needed improvement and develop training protocols that
build on those areas.
And how about that fifth key? One crucial feature that we just added over at
the Rock Star Triathlete Academy at http://www.rockstartriathleteacademy.com/triathlonresults/index.html
is the ability for members to post and share triathlon results and race
reports. This is because the fifth key is social networking with other
triathletes about your race, and finding out from the crowd how you could
have been able to perform better, what you did right, and what you did
wrong!
Your take home message: don’t just cruise through the upcoming race season,
shrug off any bad races, and cruise forward. Be scientific, analyze your
results, learn from your mistakes, and get faster!
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