Ironman 70.3 Mont Tremblant - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

lots of havock at the beginning. starts and stops due to crowdedness. they basically had 18-29 men and women + paralympic athletes in our wave. Stayed lots of collision for most of the first 500 or so. I felt as though i was going side to side alot throughout the whole swim, so i wasnt expecting anything fast. I felt strong but didnt expect anything special, and when i got out and looked at my watch after ripping wetsuit sleave off seeing 32 something i was like WTF no way! pretty stoked with that. 1:40/100 and i think woodstock was 1:39 lol

well obviously swim more, however this was impressive, maybe no swimming is the new swim training? .... just kidding lol

bit of a hike over to transition, was pretty quick inside, didnt take toooo long.

Wow. just wow. I felt amazing on this ride. I think it was maybe too fast considering later events. I hit 40k faster than I did in my OLY PB, and pace slowly dropped due to hills and stuff, but was able to still keep a solid pace for myself. Did not expect this, and especially surprised due to the elevation numbers from strava, bike hours paying off!

maybe go slower, lol

Pretty decent transition. socks were a must in a half iron in my opinion. otherwise woulda been a bit quicker. no hiccups so was good.

well this is the part where im supposed to be all, great run! blah blah blah....
it was not. i started off swell, on the sort of pace i wanted through 7km, at around 4:10-4:20 (i had to really try slow myself here as my legs just wanted to go). Then things started to go downhill, unfortunately not literally. The legs started to die, and i felt like i didnt have much in me. I basically walked at each aid station after this, and had to walk a couple times throughout the run. Also didnt help that i had to keep going to use the bathroom, which was odd as i think i was dehydrated. Really just a horrible run, when i had about 10k left and was about 4:10 in all i had in my mind was stay at 5min/k at the worst, you must stay at this, unfortunately i had a few slower,but by the end i was able to dig in and through a good last little bit in to just break the barrier.

I cant really explain to be honest. maybe it was the bike pace that killed me or something but i just didnt seem to have it, and the whole run i was just waiting for each km marker till the end.

nothing. i was absolutely done when i finished, when i found my mom and we sat in the shade i lay down and almost fell asleep lol. i had to down 2 powerades super quickly cuz i just felt so dehyrdated.


the run. also yesterday my stomach was not wanting food, and we were out alot in the sun at the race site, so i think that started my dehydration. perhaps also a bad taper week. gonna have go get back to the drawing board.


Amazing race. For the first time they crushed it! Great scenery and a pretty tough course that keeps you honest. Love to attend at somepoint in the future, maybe will end up doing the full iron as my first one day.