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What would you do differently?: nothing, maybe swim more.  Transition 1
Comments: no problem as usual all this Ironman events are very well prepared(ok maybe the walk/run was a bit far from Tr but still what is 150yds in 140.6miles). 5 to take your wetsuit, 2 to hold your bag, 3 to find your bag. I might exaggerating but this is the easiest part of the event. If you stressing about the Tr you should not do this race, actually you not do any tris. Most tri you actually have to all yourself.  Bike
What would you do differently?: I think riding the whole course a few times would have help. The course is technical on the descent and it help know when to pace. Transition 2
Comments: easy again gave bike to volunteer, found my bag run into tent. took my time to account for everything that i needed, and then forced myself to pie.  Run
Comments: I went out of the bike feeling good not great but I looked at my hr and with the effort I was going in the 3mil averaging 7:30, it was good. Obviously we were mostly descending. At mile 8 mile, I started to feel tired and heavy on the quads, I knew I was in trouble. So I repeated in mind to just find a solution, slow down drink eat no negative thoughts. That's was bit hard. Kept at it, more of a jog now but still within my pace of 8min/mile. By mile 15, I was definitely spent and wasted, getting anxious as all the guys in my age group passing me one by one. Oh well, no panic just think about others who trying to finish the ironman or want do one but are injured or impaired. It was all about perspective at that point so I just push myself to finish strong, started running-or jogging up the hills into town. No walking allowed, I repeated. It hurt but I took it one mile at a time. And it worked, each mile I would drink and looked around most were struggling with it so there was no complaining. Finally I could hear the roar and the speaker from the finish line. Wow, my ten ironman finish what a relief! made it again... in one piece. I was so happy! What would you do differently?: I wish I would have stop to hug my mother but I was too busy racing. (dumb!) saw my family and friends a number of time unfortunately at that time I wasn't feeling great. Post race
Warm down: lost 10lbs, got 3 beneficial Ivy. Thank god for all the volunteers and EMT, doctors at the the tent. Believe I wasn't the only one looking pale and wasted. What limited your ability to perform faster: Nutrition. Got to figure out the correct per cal expenditure for my ironman HR pace. Event comments: Great race, love the course. Very challenging and beautiful. Great volunteers and the spectators were awesome never a boring moment. Again, I always remind to tri-geeks, It's all about the run. Last updated: 2009-07-30 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 82/
Age Group = m40-44
Age Group Rank = 16/
wake up at 3:15 with the help of 5 alarms (at 2min interval). Obviously since I was traveling with my mother, brother and a friend who had no idea of the morning madness. Just wanted to make we were on schedule. Ate 2 bagels with PB. Coffee, 1 bttle gatorade and half of Power bar, still pretty full from last night dinner. For some reason everyone was ready to leave at 4:20, stayed in wilmington so had a 30min drive. We had special parking place just near the special needs, so I could towards the Transition and drop both bags before getting to the Transition.
Unfortunately, since my party was exhausted (already!), they stayed in the car to get some extra sleep. So when to TR, left extra bottle and checked tires, by the way I bump them at the lower end around 100, knowing how wet and bumpy the surface was. (that was good call, about the one that got right) Things were smooth, just couldn't find my party to give the pump and dry clothes. So an old racing friend from the 90's, left it in his car. Got to the beach as soon as the open it, waited couple minutes then got a 15min warm-up.