Tony finishing his marathon swim!
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Showing posts with label athletics. Show all posts
Friday, March 27, 2009
He's done!
After an awful four hours he actually made up all that time and finished five minutes ahead of his plan at 17:00:54.
I do have some pix I'll post later.
1200 m to go!
He hit 41 km in 16:33 - he did the km in 19 minutes! He's barely paused before launching on his last full kilometre. I'm now extrapolating .... 10:04 p.m.!!!
38 km
After a long break, he swam the 1 km in one go, finishing at 15:22. He's done 90% of the distance, and has 4.2 km left. I'm extrapolating a finish at 10:34 p.m. His stroke looks good (see video in previous post), he only had half a cookie between km 37 and 38. Rhonda says he's swimming on guts because he has nothing else in him.
The first length of km 38
You can see that his stroke is much better than 4 km ago.
UPDATE: In response to a question, yes, Tony is in lane 2, and he's drafting. He's been drafting most of the day.
37 km!
In 14:48. He's moving along. There's some thought (well, Dave thinks) that Tony may swim better doing 8:xx 500s. He's also taking 15 seconds' rest between 250s.
Anyway, he's now 88% in, and has only 5.2 km to go. I'm continuing to extrapolate a finish at 10:30 p.m.
36 km
For whatever cause, Tony is now a rocket. He finished km 36 in 21 min total. His stroke count has dropped to 17. He took barely 90 seconds' break, and he's into km 37. 6.2 km to go!
34 & 35 km
Sorry for the delay - been an eventful hour.
Tony hit 35 km at 13:22, and I extrapolated a 10:20 p.m. finish. But he started drinking defizzed Coke, and seemed to be doing better. He went to the washroom twice, and had a hit of oxygen, and began negotiating - not a bad thing here. If he swims 1 km/h he can finish ...
Anyway, at 7 p.m. PDT he was at 35.9 km, only 1oo m down. He hit 36 km at 14:01, so I'm now extrapolating 17:51. Right or wrong, I detect a change in his attitude. I didn't capture it with the camera, but we saw the old Tony grin, and he even had a "groupie" come up to him. :-)
We all applauded as he struck out again. And after a very brief break, he's swimming again.
Tony's back in the water
Tony threw up - probably a good thing - declined a hit of oxygen from the staff, and is back in the water after nearly 20 minutes between 500s. He's asked for Pringles and chicken broth, though, which is probably on the right path to getting some food into him.
The probably means no more day-old Wendy's chicken fingers, which is surely a good thing.
Tony now needs to dig deep into his suitcase of courage. He has four hours of suffering, mental & physical, ahead of him.
6 p.m., 13 hours in
Tony's on his 33.5-km break. He's definitely feeling low. At 33.25 km he stopped and I wondered if he was going to quit. When I passed on Lee C.'s message he was a bit snarly (well, for Tony).
Anna said Rhonda should tell him he's at the Bear - an in-joke re IM Canada.
In terms of adherence to plan, he's right on schedule now.
33 km
In 12 h 45 min. He's done 78% of the distance, and has 9.2 km to go.
Extrapolating the last 5 km predicts a finish at 9:54 p.m.
More on Tony's diet
Tony hasn't been eating the PowerBar Blasts he loves for a few hours. Rhonda's concerned, quite rightly, that he's not eating enough, and that's behind his low spirits.
A poll! Should Tony do the vacuuming?
I'll admit that I don't know how to set up blog polls, so I'll have to ask you post a comment or send me an e-mail.
The background is that Tony does the vacuuming on Saturdays.
The question is: Does swimming a marathon today excuse Tony from vacuuming tomorrow?
Tony's diet
Someone asked what he's eating. Mostly, he's drinking Gatorade and eating, gulp, Wendy's chicken fingers from the night before (as shown in the picture).
I forgot to note that at 32 km he was still 12 minutes ahead of schedule. He'd done 76% of the total distance.
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