Ironman Florida - TriathlonFull Ironman

Did as well as I could have for my abilities. Started on West end and let current take me to first turn. The first bouy I saw was the turn bouy. This may be the first race ever that I didn't get nervous. Started easy and never got behind on breathing which is also something new for me.

Nothing.

My first Ironman so I wasn't going to rush T1 and be sorry later. The whole gear bag transition was so foreign to me. I should practice dumping out my stuff and putting it on next time.

Maybe try and keep it under 10 minutes! :-)

Really tried to go easy on the bike and kept reminding myself that I had to run a marathon on those same legs.
Spent 3 minutes stopped at special needs to process bag and go pee.

Practice going pee on bike so I don't have to stop.

Kept shoes on for some reason. Longer run than I expected so that cost me some time. Same as T1, very strange to transition out of a bag. Need to practice that.

Leave shoes and bike and run bare foot through transition and change tent.

Felt good to start with, tried running 10 minute miles but it took 4 to get that pace down. Got a bit tired after halfway, then had some nutrition that kicked in and two ibuprofen and back on pace I went. Felt great from mile 15 on. Average pace over last 11.2 miles was 9:30

Take a couple of ibuprofen on mile 4 to help with foot pain that came from such a long bike.

swim technique, being uncomfortable on bike


Awsome first Ironman. Surprised at how well I did. I had some left at end. Could have picked up pace last 3 miles, but didn't want to chance screwing up and I knew I had a sub-12 hour race in the bag.