tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post622048962597836588..comments2024-01-08T01:20:20.736-07:00Comments on Days of Speed and Slowtime Mondays: Rocking Curt GowdyElaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734583197185810124noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post-359805999512589522012-07-04T09:40:33.592-06:002012-07-04T09:40:33.592-06:00Oh, that makes sense. Otherwise adrenaline would h...Oh, that makes sense. Otherwise adrenaline would have nothing to work with.Elfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01827436807468320435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post-56947842508363778732012-07-04T06:29:02.071-06:002012-07-04T06:29:02.071-06:00I was in the best possible wave for me. I lost ti...I was in the best possible wave for me. I lost time letting quite a few people pass but I hung onto a few fast wheels here and there and riding down behind the faster, confident riders gave me the confidence to go faster and ride stuff that normally would worry me. <br /><br />I did hear that program on Radiolab and her story had given me the inspiration for my race day strategy as well as the story of Scott Jurek getting up off the road during Badwater and pretending his race had just started. When you're running/racing you're already in a hypnotic state so it's fun/easy to play around with time distortion. <br /><br />There was another story on Radiolab, an interview with Juli Moss and Wendy Ingraham, who will be at my next race in my age group, and they were talking about research indicating that our body sends our brain signals of fatigue before we're tired as a defense mechanism so we always have a bit extra in the tank that we can tap into if we can mentally put aside the fatigue/pain signals. Of course you have to be careful with that or you end of crawling across the finish line at the Ironman like Juli but still interesting to know there's more in the tank than you think there is.Elaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02734583197185810124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post-12335216446943847032012-07-03T20:27:22.733-06:002012-07-03T20:27:22.733-06:00Wow, congratulations! And in that heat, too! What ...Wow, congratulations! And in that heat, too! What a delight that your bike time was so much better than on your practice run. Not only were you not DFL, you beat a bunch of people; that's cool. Do you think that the wave level that you picked was the right one?<br /><br />RadioLab on NPR this weekend had a show on... uh,oh, don't remember the general topic. But there's this lady who runs and wins 100+ mile races. Started running when she discovered that it staved off epileptic seizures, but not 100+ miles. Didn't work forever, and they ended up removing a damaged part of her temporal lobe, which completely affected her sense of time passing, as in, she doesn't sense it at all any more. So your strategy to convince yourself that you were just starting out is what it's like for her running all the time, and all of a sudden she found that doing 100+ miles was easy--no sense of time passing, therefore no sense of how tired she should be feeling... interesting.Elfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01827436807468320435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post-25762329181708810182012-06-28T16:28:44.677-06:002012-06-28T16:28:44.677-06:00Congrats!! Thats so awesome. I dont know how peop...Congrats!! Thats so awesome. I dont know how people do this kind of thing but way to go!!Dianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16378710392378543981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post-26144282732825732492012-06-26T10:57:23.775-06:002012-06-26T10:57:23.775-06:00Big congrats on sticking it out and competing thro...Big congrats on sticking it out and competing through the whole race, even though your Kazoo was telling you to go home. <br />Great accomplishment!Greg Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01275468835940333887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post-83302494883736093452012-06-26T09:22:05.776-06:002012-06-26T09:22:05.776-06:00You rocked it!!! I LOVE that you enjoyed the bike...You rocked it!!! I LOVE that you enjoyed the bike so much after all this time dreading it! SO happy for you that it turned out to be such a good race day :)Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17228735227119427610noreply@blogger.com