Buffalo Springs Lake Ironman 70.3 - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Took a breast stroke kick to the head. What was mor eimpressive was how the guy wrapped his foot around my neck and pushed me down a bit.
Otherwise, the swim was uneventful.

Train more.

Had to stop for a bathroom break. I was militant abotu hydrating, so no surprise here.

Someone had knocked over my bike so my aero water bottle was empty. I had a bottle to take with me on the run, so I dumped enough water in my bottle to get me to the first water station.

Went about as expected. Was doing OK until mile 40.

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Need to rememeber to grab my gels before I leave the rack. I was almost out of transition when I realized my goof.

Pay attention.

This is where my undertraining program really fell apart.

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Got an IV.


Lack of training over the last 3 months. Gained 8 pounds in the last month.


I started my own business last year. In April, it got the best of me and I had to limit my training. This continued through June.

I did not start at Lonestar and I did nto want to do that twice in a row, so I showed up knowing it was going to be a long, tough day.

I went from wanting to PR the distance earlier this year to matching my PR, to wanting to PR the course by th etime race day showed up. Teh last time I did this race, which was in 2004, I weighed 35 pounds more than now and did not really know how to train for this distance.

I knocked an hour off of my previous best time at this course but I was an horu 20 minutes slower than my last 1/2 IM. I guess proper training makes a HUGE difference :-0

This race was just about gutting it out when I knew I was in for a tough day.