Ironman Florida - TriathlonFull Ironman

Started to the right midway back, the first few minutes I was thinking "this is crazy, why am I doing this, I'm not doing any more of these" then I decided to embrace it. I was like "so this is a IM swim, its almost a fun challenge swimming in and around all the people". I got kicked swam over all that good stuff. I got really relaxed on second loop and thought I finished a little slow until I realized the clock was not changed yet.

Get back into the draft earlier on the second lap.

Left my wet suit bottoms on until I got in changing area and that kept the sand off. I lubed up with plenty of euro style chamious butter,threw my helmet and bike shoes on and headed out, did a real slow jog, didn't think it was worth raising my heart rate.

Bike went good, I hit my target power but may have burned a few to many matches. When I would come up behind a group and pass them it took a little higher effort to do it legally. I had the worst headache the entire time, I think it was tension from holding my head up during the swim and then on the bike because it went away as soon as I got off the bike. I didn't stop on the bike, but that's how I trained and all my rides were flatter. Tried to drink 1 bottle of perform per hour and take a Gu gel every 35 min.

Take in more calories, maybe some solids. Used only Gu gels and IM perform.

Felt really good to get off the bike and get rid of that headache. I was not sure if I was going to change but I ended up putting on running shorts and shirt, laced up the shoes and threw on my garmin. Hit the Porto potty on the way out.

Not change, I would have been fine with my try kit.

I felt good through the first 10k hitting my goal pace of 9:30 ish while walking aid stations, then I started getting sick of gels. I felt like if I ate 1more I would puke, so I grabbed a coke. My legs started get tired and walking felt really good. I ran / walked and ate pretzels and drank coke, I could have ran a lot more but I was worried that I needed to leave some energy for miles 18-26. My legs just had no gas even though I felt great, I would run a half mile with good form but would tire out then walk and I did this until the finish. I think I need either more calories or salt, going to figure this out for IMFL 2013

Take in more calories on the bike and maybe a little more on the run, it was to late to cram a bunch of calories 10mi into the run.

Stood in line to get my bags, walked to the hotel and showered. Drank about 3 diet cokes and ate a bag of pretzels and ate a bagel. Watched ironman live for a bit and then went to bed and passed out.


I believe not enough calories, maybe salt. I don't think I over biked since my race power was 25 watts lower than my traing bricks and I ran much better off those.


I had such a great time I signed up on Sunday for next year, I loved the support from the spectators and though the event was run very good.