Ironman 70.3 Augusta - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Need to be careful not to veer too far off course. Swam almost all the way to the left of the course by the buoys and had to swim much further to get to the water exit at the end. The swim went a lot quicker than I anticipated, Jay beat me again on the swim, he had a much better swim and finished in 29 min. Still a much better time than i had hoped!!

concentrate on not swimming off course!!!

Took way too much time in Transition, I was worried that I would forget something. Did not have the shoes attached to the bike because i didn't see the need to have a super fast transition.

I should have had a faster transition!! No reason why I shouldn't have done it in less than 3 minutes because I was NOT tired at all after the swim.

Overall decent bike effort. I definitely could have gone MUCH harder, but I feel that the bike speed that I maintained approx 20mph did set me up for a great run.

Spend more time running longer distances and do more track work next time. i was unable to get much distance in the weeks prior due to pain/injury in my right knee. Actually got it injected by one of the Ortho PA's the week prior to the event.

BS'd around in T2, when I got back i found out that my towel was COMPLETELY COVERED in ants!! My shoes, in turn, were full of ANTS. I spent the better part of my damn near 5 min transition time banging out the ants from my shoes.

spray towel with bug spray if transition is in the grass in the future.

Quads were screaming for the first 3 miles, resolved completely thereafter. Kept hydrating and eating shot bloks every 25-30min. Was able to finish strong (fastest pace 4:30 down the chute)

Not a thing, perfectly executed negative split with a 9:07 initial half, followed by a strong 8:17 for the second half of the run. Will work on sustaining a faster pace.

sat down too quickly upon realizing that my left 4th toe may be broken. . .lol. Super tight afterwards, ate a banana, drank plenty of high quality H2O and ate some domino's. Stretched a little and went back to the car.


need to use a long course tri suit with a decent chamois, experienced severe perineal pain and later found out I had completely rub myself raw.


GREAT EXPERIENCE WITH MY FIRST HIM, WOULD DEFINITELY DO THIS ONE AGAIN. THE SWIM SET ME UP FOR A GREAT RACE, GOTTA LOVE THAT FAVORABLE CURRENT!!! I feel that I raced pretty smart but everything seemed to work out pretty well. Next time I will have a definite plan for nutrition which is something I kinda guesstimated when I needed to eat/drink and just got lucky. I'll work the nutrition thing into my training runs/bikes next year for my first IM.