Texas Man (Half) - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

i walked out more then 50 of the swim and was in 3rd or so place for the first 100 then slowly moved back a little. NOT HAVING BOUIES on the way in was bad and there were too few of them total hard to know where you are going.

dont really know.

.17 miles from the beach to the T1 bikes... hummm seams pretty far of a T1 run to me. they did have wet suit strippers but they were off to the side and not very visible or being marketed. didnt like running on the concrete sidewalk that much either.

run the whole way and not walk. even though i was a little warn out from the swim.

1/2 decent to good... 1/2 terrible road rough bumpy road conditions. Apparently when you ride on a highway that is not closed course and you are in front of another rider a Course official can and will give you a 4 min penalty for being overtaken and not moving out of the way of this other rider.

this is a hard thing for me to wrap my hands around because i dont want to ride on the crap highway shoulder and not to move in to the side of the lane where cars are going 60mph.

after the race i talked to the official and his explication of what happened was not very good and I basically caught him in his description of what happened to me. and he said that it was right before i saw him on the road. he was infront of me and i was infont of the other rider. so he slowed down and i said hey hows it going. he said hi on the road. and said something to the other rider behind me. and this is when he said i didnt move after being overtaken. if I am in the lead how did i get overtaken???

i didnt have a very nice conversation with that guy.

Nutrition... still trying to toy with what works for me and what dosnt.

smooth easy.

always have a hat available. find out more information about the run course before. to know to wear my white hat.

couldnt find it. i sucked it up. maybe too hot and humid for a first race for the season and maybe didnt drink enough water on the bike.

after i knew that my run was going to really be terrible about mile 2.5. i just started to have fun with it and not really think about it. i talked to volunteers, made jokes encouraged other racers etc. I realized that I didnt want to make my self sick and kill my legs.



not walk - not suck

went straight to the lake and sat in there for 5 min


my run or my nutrition / hydration


to start this race was a 2/10. the only reason why it gets 2 points is because i did good on the bike and swim.

-1 for bad run course
-1 for non closed course - partially closed
-1 for no med tent at the end of the HALF (they left after the Olympic)
-1 for no pizza once half people finished or other foods
-1 for no one knowing where the med tent was
-1 for handing out poweraid 0 - im prety sure we need calories and carbs post racing
-1 for 57 mile long bike course
-1 for no name GU stuff on the run
-1 for only 1 bike hand up
-1 for 1 aid station with poweraid on the run
-1 for making the people that got there first have to park the furthest away
-1 for open transition
-1 for no port a potties on bike
-1 for no port a potties on run
-1 for allowing muscle milk leaving after the olympic tri
-1 for allowing gatoraid to leave after the olympic
-1 for anything else i forgot about along the way

what the heck... it was a good training day for IM LOUISVILLE! and now I know that I can do another race next month!