I’m thinking strategy. It’s always tough to figure out the best way to ride or run an event, and even then, my strategies don’t always work–and sometimes I fail to follow them.

For instance, going by heart rate, my plan in the Great Aloha Run and the Ford Island 10K was identical: start off at my “recovery” rate for the first couple of miles (basically a long warm up), raise up my heart rate another eight points for the majority of the run, then another five for the last mile and change, and sprint to the finish once I could see it.

In one case, it was a spectacular failure. In the other it was a breakthrough success.

And of course, those are runs, not rides. Rides are going to require somewhat different strategies.

What it’ll be I’m not yet sure. But I’ll have something figured out. Soon.
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