Timberman - Half Iron - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

The swim went pretty good according to what I can do as far as my swimming skills are right now. From what my watch told me the swim was a bit longer but it was the same length for everyone so I can't complain there.

I did a great job and pass a lot of swimmers from the waves ahead of me, which is always nice for me since I do not swim that fast.

I have to get more in the pool to get better at swimming, I will eventually ;)

Really good transition, can't complain much about it

What a great bike split, not much I could ask for more then that with my actual bike skills. I still need to work on my hills skills but I am really happy with that.

The plan was to try to get an average of 190 watts with 142 BPM on the bike.

I completed my bike split with 188 watts and 140 BPM. Not exactly what the coach said, but close enough to make me happy ;)

One of my wife's friend was there with her husband. And so far every time that we were at the same competition I always beat him. So Saturday she told me that he said that he would crunch me on the bike. He was planning to pass me on the bike, even if his wave was leaving 20 minutes after mine. So my main plan was to get the best bike split possible to keep him behind me and then to overrun him.

Nothing :)

Awesome transition once again. Lost some seconds to put on my socks but that is about it.

When I started the run I knew that my legs were not perfect. I guess that pushing the pace on the bike didn't help with that. My plan was to run a sub 1h45 half marathon and up to the half point I thought that I might have a chance at it. But on the second half the stomach decided to shut down a little bit and I couldn't get any nutrition in besides water. I could feel that my energy level was going down. At the 15km mark or so I grabbed a coke to see how I would react. I never really tried that in training but I needed to find a way to get some calories in. It worked pretty well actually, which helped me to get back with a not so bad last 5.5 km. Not enough to get that under 1h45 time but still happy with my overall race.

A really hot run, but I found the way to keep my cool. They had snowballs at one of the aid station, it was pretty awesome :D

Another P»R for me, but 8 minutes or so.

Oh and in case you are wondering, I beat my wife's friend's boyfriends once again. By 4 minutes :p I guess that he will eventually beat me, he is 14 years younger than me, but so far he never did :)

The best part of all, I got my medal from Chrissie Wellington :)

Nothing actually, I walked around and grabbed a cheeseburger :p


Awesome race, the only thing that would be cool is if they could fix the pavement because at some place it was really not pretty